Nice game. A little more description on some upgrades would be nice (invincibility reloads or is it only temporary? what about the shield?) also, range is range of vision or range of attack? This game has a lot in common with Chef Last Stand, but I believe this one is better in many ways.
If this game had a speed up button the grind would be way less painful. Please add a way to speed up the battles, looks like a lot of people are quitting your game because of this.
**Possible SPOILER**A lot of small details for this game. Wheelbarrows are essential for the markets, otherwise the workers spend too much time retrieving goods and the stores are depleted too fast for them to fill. Every now and then I had the urge to wipe the city and rebuild it, but I never did. Once I got the expansion to other islands through colonies I felt glad I didn't. Left the first island as it was and built the civilization I wanted in the other islands.
This game and others like it are why I keep coming back to kongregate. Not the genre, but the quality and thoughtfulness of who made it. Thank you for this treasure among so many low-effort low-quality games.
Awesome game, can't stop playing it. For the unawares: to invade enemy land that is adjacent to an enemy unit you need a unit of at least one rank higher than the enemy unit. That's only if the land belongs to the enemy. Same goes the other way around, enemies can't invade your land if you post a "guard" (you'll see a darker green icon of a shield and added stripes according to which rank your unit is). There's a lot of chess in this game and the rewind button is awesome.
If you have supernova copy and paste this to your browser to play solarmax 2:
supernova://play/?swfurl=https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchat.kongregate.com%2Fgamez%2F0026%2F5150%2Flive%2Fsolarmax2.swf%3Fkongregate_game_version%3D1468002089
That should go away after a few minutes, sorry about that. It happens when the game thinks you didn't disconnect on purpose and it is trying to reconnect you.
The greatest challenge in this game are the controls. For the hard badge, get some repair bots to throw themselves at the guided missiles that start to come with the waves after wave 20 or so.
Finally got the hard badge. Wrote some useful information in the wiki if anyone wants to go for it: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflashgaming.fandom.com%2Fwiki%2FProtector
Got the hard badge after a few tries. First upgrade was accelerator. You should be able to buy the first glider at the second day (25 from the flight plus 25 from the achievement). Day 18 was easy with everything but acceleration (only last upgrade for acceleration not bought). Good luck badge hunters!
 "Arsenal Online")
 "Snowball")
 "In Space")
 "One Among Zombies")
 "Incremental Epic Hero 2")
 "City Idle")
 "Absorber")
 "Konkr.io")
 "Solarmax")
 "RPG MO Sandbox")
 "STUG")
 "Drone Wars")
 "Protector")
 "Learn to Fly")
 "Endless Dream 2: The Nightmare")
 "Bit Warfare")
Thanks for confirming, stranger :)