# FAQ

Time Heroes is available on Telegram as a mini-game. It can be played directly within the Telegram app, making it accessible on smartphones without any extra downloads!

Yes, Time Heroes is free to play! You can enjoy the core gameplay without spending any money. However, there are be in-game purchases available for players who want to enhance their experience or speed up their progress.

Joining a colony in Time Heroes offers several benefits, including:

Shared Rewards: Work together with your colony members to unlock collective rewards.
Collaborative Play: Share strategies, resources, and coordinate rocket launches with your colony.
Leaderboard Competition: Compete in colony-specific leaderboards, both within your colony and against other colonies, to earn exclusive rewards.
Community Support: Enjoy playing with others, helping each other progress and win rewards!

You can earn diamonds in Time Heroes by:

Completing Tasks: Finish daily and weekly tasks to receive diamond rewards.
- Completing Missions: Finish instant missions to receive diamond rewards.
Leaderboard Rewards: Rank high on leaderboards to receive diamonds as part of your reward.
Special Events: Participate in in-game events and challenges that offer diamonds as prizes.
In-Game Purchases: Purchase diamonds directly through in-app purchases.

Time Heroes features a variety of pets, categorized by rarity and type:

Basic Pets: The standard pets you hatch from eggs.
Golden Pets: More powerful pets with enhanced stats, obtained through upgrades or conversions.
Rainbow Pets: Even rarer pets with unique attributes, also obtained through upgrades or conversions.
Shiny Pets: Special versions of any pet type that come with a shine and increased DPS. (A pet can be Shiny and Golden at the same time)

You can increase your inventory capacity by purchasing the Inventory Capacity upgrade using diamonds. This upgrade allows you to store more pets, which is especially useful as you collect and convert pets to higher tiers and types. Increasing your inventory capacity helps you manage your collection more effectively and ensures you don’t lose valuable pets when hatching new ones.

Rocket Launching in Time Heroes allows you to explore new colonies in the galaxy. Each successful rocket launch to a new, undiscovered colony increases your shiny pet pull chances and earns you airdrop tickets. Additionally, if you are the first to discover a colony, and the colony's location is shared with your fellow colony members. Rocket Launching is crucial for progression, earning rewards, and contributing to your colony's success.

New stages in Time Heroes are unlocked by completing the current stage you’re on. Each stage has specific objectives or a set number of Planets to mine. Once you complete these, the next stage becomes available, offering new challenges, more powerful pets, and greater rewards. Progressing through stages is key to advancing in the game and accessing better resources.

You can increase your DPS (damage per second) in Time Heroes by:

DPS Multiplier Upgrade This upgrade multiplies your total pet DPS. So don't hesitate to upgrade it!
Collecting Higher Rarity Pets: Rarer pets naturally have higher DPS, so focusing on hatching or converting pets to higher rarities will increase your overall DPS.
Hatching Shiny, Golden, or Rainbow Pets: These special pet types have higher DPS multipliers.

Shiny pets are special versions of pets with enhanced DPS and a unique shiny appearance. To increase your chances of hatching a Shiny pet, you can upgrade your Luck or visit new colonies through Rocket Launches. Each unique colony visit increases your Shiny pet pull chance by 0.2%, up to a maximum of 10%. Shiny pets are rare, so it’s rewarding to add them to your collection!

Airdrop tickets in Time Heroes are earned through unique colony visits during Rocket Launches. These tickets are valuable because they will be used to claim rewards during the upcoming Token Launch. The more airdrop tickets you collect, the greater your rewards will be when the airdrop happens. Simply continue exploring new colonies to accumulate these tickets and prepare for the exciting airdrop event.

Participation in the leaderboards in Time Heroes happens automatically as you play. Your performance in various activities—such as pet collection, rocket launches, and colony discoveries—will be tracked and reflected on the leaderboards. There are two main types of leaderboards:

Colony Leaderboards: Rank within your colony based on your personal achievements.
Global Leaderboards: Compete against other colonies to earn exclusive rewards and recognition.

To improve your ranking, focus on consistently progressing through stages, upgrading your pets, and actively participating in colony activities. High rankings on the leaderboards offer top-tier rewards, so it’s worth competing to secure your spot!