Bit hunt

Bit is the little robot you know from the tutorial. In Bit Hide & Seek he plays hide and seek across the whole universe: you hide your own Bits and track down the Bits of other players. You find the event box in the command center and on the "Bit hunt" page in the menu.

Hiding Bits

You can hide up to five Bits per day. Click a free tile and enter a target coordinate – any planet in the universe is allowed, occupied or free. The flight costs neither ships nor Spice. Only one of your Bits may hide on each planet. Bits that are found are only refilled the next day, and only up to five.

The clock starts ticking when your Bit arrives: the longer it stays undiscovered, the better your ranking. If it is found, you get a message with its survival time. The "What happened?" tab tells the whole story.

Hunting Bits

With spy probes (Spy probe) you launch Bit recon flights – from the fleet menu or straight from the Galaxy map. If you hit a planet with Bits, all Bits there are destroyed, and you get one treasure chest per Bit until you reach your daily limit. Flights without a find do not count towards that limit.

Open system Bits also appear on the galaxy map – planets showing a Bit face. They are sure hits, but they do not count for the Space Pass task (see Space Pass). Real player Bits are invisible, so you have to track them down. You cannot shoot down your own Bits.

Rankings and rewards

There are two rankings: "still hidden" (which living Bit has been hiding the longest right now) and "best time" (the longest hiding time of all). First place in each list receives 500 treasure chests at the end – if the same player wins both, it is 1337. In the alliance seeker ranking, the three best seekers of each alliance count. The winning alliance gets treasure chests for every member.