Managers

Managers increase the effectiveness of your planets when assigned to them. They can be assigned and handled after researching "Management" in the project section.

Effects of Managers
Managers provide different bonuses. Only active managers assigned to specific planet give a bonus for that planet. They work like the beacon, but provides a massive bonus, instead of a small one. Once a Manager is above 3 stars they provide a secondary bonus which affect ALL planets, Crafting or Smelting. The Crafting and Smelting Bonuses are what most people feel are the better bonuses.

The primary effects are:

The Secondary effects are:

Number of Manager Slots
The player starts with 2 slots at game start. By spending dark matter, the player can increase the number of slots available.

Cost of slots and how many slots in total the player has in the table below:

Increases by 50 Dm per slot

Cost of Managers
You can buy a manager from three different "packs".

Hiring from Public School yields a manager of 1, 2 or 3 stars. Public school costs 50 dark matter.

1 star chance: 75%

2 star chance: 20%

3 star chance: 5%

Hiring from Private School yields a manager of 3 or 4 stars. Private school costs 300 dark matter.

3 star chance: 75%

4 star chance: 25%

Hiring from Brilliant Academy yields a manager of 4 or 5 stars. Brilliant academy costs 500 dark matter.

4 star chance: 75%

5 star chance: 25%

You can also craft a 5-star Manager for real money. Where you choose 2 bonuses.

The first bonus is either mine rate, ship speed or cargo. 2nd bonus is mine rate to all planets x1.20, 1.20 smelt speed, 1.40 ship speed, 1.20 craft speed or 1.40 to cargo.

Promoting managers and strategy
You can discard three managers of the same quality to increase the quality of a forth manager to increase the star value by 1. Example: Discard 3x 2-star managers to increase the star value of a 2-star manager to level 3.

If you have a long term plan to get 5-star managers, always hire from the Brilliant Academy, as it costs a lot more to promote than to recruit directly.

A 5-star manager isn't exponentially more powerful than a 4-star manager, and as such purchasing from Private School (300 dark matter) is also a very good option early on until you have three 3-star managers or better.

When starting out, it makes sense to purchase from Public school when you have less than your maximum slot value.

Remember to swap the managers around to the planets you need or get the best results from.