Tactical Database
Everything you need to know about Galactic Racing
Getting started
Browse current and upcoming races on the Dashboard. Each card shows start time, entry fee (in Chickens), racer count, and status (Open/Active/Finished).
Routes are randomly generated. Times are shown in your own local timezone (UTC if your browser blocks scripts).
How to Join a Race
- Open a race and click Join this race.
- Paste your limited Galactic Tycoons API key to fetch your company and ships.
- Pick a ship. Some races require specific emitters/reactors or counts — if so, the Join panel lists it.
- Pay the entry fee:
- From balance (instant): if you’re also signed in as a Bettor and have enough Chickens.
- By contract: send a Chicken contract to Farmy Mc Farm Face the 9th for exactly the entry fee, from the same company you joined with. The next minute's deposit check approves your entry automatically. A payment of any other size is credited to your balance instead.
- Before launch you can swap ships via the Racer Console; swaps lock at race start.
Entry fees fund the racer pot paid entirely to the winning racer.
How to deposit chickens
Chickens held on the race site can be used for placing bets and assisting racers with repair drones. Deposits are non-reversible and cannot be withdrawn.
- Open Galactic Tycoons.
- Create a contract addressed to:
Farmy Mc Farm Face the 9th(ID: 13226) - Add Chickens as the material.
- Set the contract type to Sell Material (you are selling chickens to Farmy Mc Farm Face the 9th).
- Set the location to Exchange Station (ID: 1022).
- Wait for Farmy Mc Farm Face the 9th to accept it. Your chickens are credited when the trade executes; a contract that is cancelled or declined credits nothing.
- Wait for the automatic deposit check (runs every minute).
- Refresh your race-site chicken balance. One chicken is one credit. If you have a pending race entry whose fee equals exactly what you sent, the payment goes to that entry first and your balance does not change.
Troubleshooting: If your balance doesn't appear after 5 minutes, verify the contract was sent to the correct company ID (13226) and contains the correct material, and check whether the chickens paid a pending race entry instead. We also detect Chickens purchased from our listings on the Exchange Station.
Betting and Supporting Racers
Placing Bets
- Sign in with your API key to see your Chicken balance.
- Place bets on any approved racer while the race is Open.
- Betting uses a pari-mutuel pool — winners split the pool proportionally to their stake.
- Betting locks the instant the race launches.
- Once any bet is placed, the race creator can no longer change the hazards, ship rules or entry fee.
How to help a racer
During an active race, you can deploy Repair Drones to assist struggling racers.
- Cost: 100 Chickens per drone.
- Who can use it: Anyone signed in with a balance.
- Targeting: Must target a racer currently in repairs and outside the top 3 positions.
- Effect: Immediately removes 60 seconds from their repair timer.
- Usage: Can be used repeatedly as long as you have Chickens and the racer is still repairing.
Attack Drones: coming soon.
Hazards, Shields and Repairs
How hazards work
- Every minute, each racer who is in flight rolls on their own for a hazard. One racer being hit says nothing about the others.
- Ship choice: the hit chance scales with your FTL emitter count and tier (and a little with recent podiums). Heavier setups fly faster but get hit more often.
- Position: the leader faces a "Pioneer Penalty" (+20% hit chance); racers well behind get a "Drafting Bonus" (-20%).
- No streaks: after a hit you cannot be hit again for 4 minutes.
- Forecast: the race page's route list marks legs that are mostly one hazard type (Heat, Radiation or Kinetic). Match your shielding to the forecast.
- Fair rolls: every hit in the race log shows its hit chance and the roll that triggered it.
- Damage level: the race creator picks None, Some, Normal or Max, which scales both the hit chance and the damage. Some races also bias a leg toward one hazard type, so check the route before you pick shielding.
Shields
Shields mitigate damage from specific event types:
- Heat Shields protect against Solar Flares and Plasma Vents.
- Radiation Shields protect against Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Storms.
- Kinetic Damage (Asteroids, Debris) cannot be shielded.
Higher shield tiers provide more mitigation (up to 80%). You can Overload shields for +50% extra protection, but they will burn out for the leg if hit.
Damage and Repairs
When hull health drops to or below 70%, the racer enters emergency repairs.
- Hits below that line only chip your hull; they never stall you.
- Racer is "parked" until the repair timer expires.
- Repair time grows with the hull you lost (about 0.3 min per missing %, a little jitter, between 5 and 15 minutes), so shielding and drones that keep your hull up directly save time.
- When repairs finish, health is restored to 100%.
Predictions, jackpot and garage
Prediction rounds
- Back an outcome on the Predict page. Rounds use public Galactic Tycoons data: each day's Chicken price against the day before (higher, steady or lower), and a weekly prestige sprint.
- Winners split the whole pool in proportion to their stake. Maximum stake is 50,000 chickens.
- A price round opens at the start of its day and betting closes 6 hours in; it settles when the day ends. A prestige sprint opens at the start of its week, closes betting after 24 hours, and settles when the week ends.
- If a round cannot be settled fairly (thin market, missing data) it is voided and every stake is refunded.
Weekly jackpot
- If nobody backed the winning outcome, the pool goes to the jackpot.
- Every prediction you place in the last 7 days is one entry (up to 10). One player wins the whole pot each week.
- The pot needs at least 1,000 chickens to be drawn; otherwise it rolls over.
Garage
Sign in to see your ships and specialists. Each ship shows its hazard chance per minute (from its FTL setup), its shielding and its condition, so you can pick the right ship for a race.
Race Progress and Finishing
- Checkpoint Progress: Racers must visit each planet in the sequence. Progress is tracked via GT flight data.
- Winning: The first approved racer to complete all checkpoints and return to the finish line wins.
- Racer Pot: The winner receives the entire pool of entry fees.
- Pari‑mutuel payout: Bettors on the winner split the betting pool proportionally:
payout = floor(bet_amount × total_pool ÷ total_stake_on_winner).
Discord announcements
Race creators and admins can optionally broadcast race events to a Discord channel.
- Enable in the race creation/edit form. Provide a Discord Channel ID.
- Announcements include: race start/finish, joins/approvals, position updates, damage/delays, cancellations.
- Commentary style: funny, sarcastic, and playful — never abusive. You can set intensity: Mild, Spicy, or Absolute chaos.
- Security: The site calls a private bot endpoint using a server‑side token. Your token is never exposed to browsers.
Troubleshooting
- Can’t see live changes: keep the tab open; if assets look stale, run a hard refresh.
- API key problems: make sure you’re using your limited key from Galactic Tycoons and that it’s active.
- Entry fee not recognized: if paying by contract, verify the destination company and planet match the on‑page instructions, that the amount equals the entry fee exactly, and wait a minute for the deposit check.
- Chickens did not reach my balance: they may have paid a pending race entry of the same size. Check the race page for your approval.