the wheel of fortune for GP, what can you win besides more GP and CR?

Just dont waste your GP on it

basically gp, creds or rank pts. It's like russian roulette, except this time 5/6 chambers are loaded

you can also win your very own alien head!!!! (i think it's supposed to be an aerlen's head... you know, roswell gray with huge eyes)

Edit: just to clarify, if you land on the alien head you get 5 rank points

ok I really enjoy this game so I spent alittle bit of money on it and was wondering what too buy. So far I am thinking of getting extra deck space and maybe the FATHERs.

don't buy ship bots... they're not worth it... definitely get the fathers though... save the rest of your GP for stuff that's GP-only or rarely drop in game like quasi-spacial expanders or planet fluxes

What makes the ship bots not worth it? Everwhere I read I see people going "Decks decks decks and more decks the only stat you will ever need"

what i mean is don't pay GP for ship bots... if you want decks, always put your rank points from levelling and rescued prisoners into decks... and raise your artifact production.... 24 GP is worth a lot more than 2 decks

if you're under level 76, pull artifact shipments only when above 4,000 (try to keep it between 4,000 and 4,999 so you don't waste 5k arti on continuum beacons)
if you're over level 76 (and have at least 20 planets or enough artifact storage vaults to put your cap over 20k), pull artifact shipments only when above 20,000 (the MSP's for cargo space are worth the slightly reduced chance at rescued prisoners)

Ok I'm only rank 16 currently I bearly have over 100 income in reserch and minning and currently 0 in artifacts....

in that case, definitely don't rush into spending cash on ducks... you'll hate yourself many many levels later... it's such a waste of money... unless you're doing surveys for free facebook credits... in which case, i take back everything i said...

Spending cash on decks early on will actually probably be detrimental due to the increased damage cap

The first and only thing if you have the cash to get are the FATHERS. Dont waste gp on decks, they will come from leveling or artifact production. Get cheaper energy refills instead and level up. With a level up you will be able to use those rank points for decks and other things. As you gain levels you get a new planet slot every 4 levels which you can colonize an artifact planet if you wish which will in turn get you ship decks or prisoners eventually to use for decks. Its a win/win if you use gp for energy. Not only will you get the decks, but complete missions and get the freebies and other rewards from missions. Do get the FATHERS though, they should be the first investment of GP for any player.

I have once spent some GP on that wheel.
That time i came out with 40GP, 15 rank points and a couple 30 billion credits on top when i stopped

In 8/10 slots, you will get credits. I don't know what the multiplier is... I spun and got 10x for 1,362,000,000 credits. Suggesting that 1x for me would be 136,200,000 credits. But I don't know what that value represents.

The top spot is 5 rank points, just as if you'd gained a level.

The bottom spot is 20 GP - for a net bonus of +10 GP (you spent 10 to spin the wheel remember...)

I am of the impression it's not as awful a wheel as people make it out to be. But I spend $50 a week lately n GP so I can afford a spin or two. If you're not spending cash on the game, do NOT spin the wheel.

IIRC, the money is based on what you would get roughly on daily reward cash.

Don't know about that. I thought so too, but I've pulled over 3 billion credits from the daily reward three times this week.

I was stupied I got the decks and you were right, (I did also get the fathers however) I just attacked a npc 1/3 my rank and got my ass handed too me....

ya the wheel basses the amount of creds you get off your rank. Like Threadbare said he got 1,362,000,000 creds from the 10X mark at his rank of 523 I got 3,672,000,000 Credits, at rank 857.

In case you want to know what it looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WdDAHtgnhw

3,273m credits @ 7x. Meaning 50x (highest) is 23,378m credits. Average credit win is about 12x, which is around 6 bil credits for me (when I was approaching rank 1000). 20 GP is just free spin, 10% chance. 5 rank points is whatever.

Compare to last 3 days : 1 day, 21 hours ago Reward Claimed You gain 17,750,074,120 Credits . 1 day, 1 hour ago Reward Claimed You gain 25,818,037,212 Credits . 5 hours, 49 mins ago Reward Claimed You gain 24,338,575,292 Credits .

So average credit win, rank adjusted I assume, is going to be 1/3 to 1/4 your daily reward worth of credits (had assumed 10x was worth 1 daily reward, and 50x was like 5 daily credit awards, but that's not the case).