What is a Tick?

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Ticks are the time-line on which Battle Dawn functions. Everything you do on Battle Dawn will be done in ticks. When you train a soldier, it will take a certain amount of ticks to finish training. When you send an attack, it will take a certain amount of ticks for your attack to arrive at it's destination (ETA). Some worlds have different tick speeds (see "world tick speeds" below), which means that they may very according to how many ticks pass on that world every hour.

Ticks advance regardless of whether or not you log in, so in order to play Battle Dawn you're advised to login at least once a day to check your colony's status. It is not necessary to log in every tick but the more active you are, the more micromanaging you can do, and the more effective you are going to be as a commander.


Symbol for ticks: Image:NewTick Symbol.jpg

You can often find the symbol for ticks anywhere that something takes a certain amount of time in ticks to happen, or complete. For example: see the section on nukes


Current World/Server Time (in ticks): You can check how many ticks have passed on your server by looking in the top-right corner of the resource bar. In the example below, we can see that 2527 ticks have passed on this world.

Time Left In Current Tick Directly above the world mini-map, you can see a timer counting down the amount of time left in your current tick. (the image example shows 55 minutes and 57 seconds)

NOTE: The 'countdown-to-tick' timer is ALWAYS approximate, and can be inaccurate, sometimes by a few minutes! Plan accordingly!

File:Tick picture.png


Sending squads / ETA: When you choose a destination for your squads, you will see an ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) displayed in ticks. The minimum travel distance to attack a target destination which is right next to the attack origin, is 3 ticks. The farther away a target destination is from the origin, the larger the ETA will be.


World Tick Speeds

Each world has it's own rate at which a tick passes. Make sure to check the tick speed rate when joining a world and be sure it is the right world for you and your schedule!

You can see the tick speed rate for each world in the server selection screen after logging in to the game client.


Below are the current tick speed settings for all BattleDawn worlds:

Earth Worlds:

  • Earth-1 : 1 tick per hour / 1 every 60 minutes
  • Earth-2 : 2 ticks per hour / 1 every 30 minutes
  • Earth-3 : 3 ticks per hour / 1 every 20 minutes
  • Earth-4 : 1 tick per hour / 1 every 60 minutes
  • Earth-5 : 2 ticks per hour / 1 every 30 minutes

Mars Worlds:

  • Mars-1 : 1 tick per hour / 1 every 60 minutes
  • Mars-2 : 2 ticks per hour / 1 every 30 minutes
  • Mars-3 : 3 ticks per hour / 1 every 20 minutes

Fantasy Worlds:

  • Fantasy-1 : 1 tick per hour / 1 every 60 minutes
  • Fantasy-2 : 2 ticks per hour / 1 every 30 minutes
  • Fantasy-3 : 3 ticks per hour / 1 every 20 minutes

Galaxy Arenas:

  • Galaxy-1 : 4 ticks per hour / 1 every 15 minutes
  • Galaxy-2 : 3 ticks per hour / 1 every 20 minutes
  • Galaxy-3 : 3 ticks per hour / 1 every 20 minutes
  • Galaxy-4 : 1 tick per hour / 1 every 60 minutes
  • Galaxy-5 : 2 ticks per hour / 1 every 30 minutes


Terminology: Depending on who you talk to players refer to the different speeds as Single(1 tick/hr), Double(2 ticks/hr), Triple(3 ticks/hr), Quadruple(4 ticks/hr) and speed worlds(6 ticks/hr).

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