Starting a new account:

When you begin the game, you come with 5 buildings on Planet Ground View. The buildings are named Resource Warehouse (Where Resources are Harvested), Civic Center (Controls Upgrade caps on Ground View), Metal Collector (Metal is collected), He3 Extractor (Where He3 is Extracted), And Residential Area (Where Gold is Created).

On mobile server, if you follow the quests for building and upgrading your grounds, you will get a semi functional
base within no time.

A common mistake most people make is upgrading buildings before all the resource buildings are placed. To upgrade a LvL1 Residential Area to a LvL2 costs 134 metal, 124 he3, and 112 gold. Its total output will go from 1300 to 1339. That comes to gaining 39 gold extra after upgrade finishes. At 39 gold per hour, it would take 2.8 hours to pay for itself. To place a new LvL1 Residential Area costs 95 Metal, 80 He3, and 95 Gold to build gaining 1180 gold per hour. That rate pays for itself in .08 hours. It gains 1180 gold per hour income for 95 gold, rather than 39 gold per hour income raise for 112 gold.

Starting the game being in no corps for corps bonuses, you have an income of 1,080 Metal, 1,180 He3, and 1300 Gold Per Hour. Before you Harvest for the first Quest, DON'T HARVEST. There is a glitch that will give you full capacity of the warehouse no matter how long it has been storing. The first time you harvest you are going to get max holdings for a LvL1 warehouse, 10k each resource. Place down all of the resource buildings. All 8 Metal Collectors, all 8 He3 Extractors, and all 12 Residential Areas. This will put you at an income of 8,640 Metal, 9,440 He3, and 15,600 Gold per hour. Depending on how often you are going to return to the account in the day with be the determening factor in how to continue. When I start an Alt, I do it in batches. That way months later when the system passes out vouchers for upgrade speeding, I can just speed all resource buildings to lvl 9 or 10. If someone is playing on an account often, then they will need to go the normal route. If they are not going to be hitting the alt up more than once or a few times a day, they need to do the Warehouse First route.