This is where we stand. This is where we fight.

Welcome to the advanced age my friend. This here is the last age, where everything defies gravity and just about everything is shiny, smooth laser.

From this point on, there's really nothing I can point and say "You have to do this!" as most things here become optional. This age is really all about WAR and the military which will branch off in however you want your empire to be. Let's start discussing the new stuff, shall we?
First things first, train workers.

With the new maximum worker count being 500, resources will coming in like you've never seen before. However, the problem now is, each worker now costs 1000 kernels.

Yeah, that's right, 1000. This high expense means a lot of resources spent, but its still worth it to have 500 workers than 200. Very soon, you'll get an extra 500 with the building of an Orbital Habitat and Deep Space Colony, which we'll discuss later.
With the new insane expenses, you would resist getting your workers into space suits to go out and collect rocks.Unfortunately, you'll be doing a lot of it because you need to. You'll be running out of land fairly quickly and it becomes crucial to success or failure. Stuart is sad because your empire has been demoted to collecting rocks and have begun the trend of suits. Just look at that frown and to repent his loss, he has risen the prices
The price ranges close to 70 gold, 50 food, and 30 oil per worker. A very huge sum especially with oil in the mix. Hopefully you were exploring as much as you could following Troa's guide through the Modern Age so it shouldn't be a problem until you start expanding your army.


Surprisingly, the Bruce and friends STILL uses shovel technology to build these new floating buildings you'll be busy getting the resources for. I'm also interested in that Bruce's "properties" show his REAL name being "build guy". Go ahead, check his properties right now. He's waiting below with his shovel...
Orbital Habitat

Oh yeah, the super house. This is acrucial building to have as it increases the maximum workers you can have by 250. It will give you workers, who give you money and land, which makes happy everywhere. What's not happy: the 100k gold, 3k wood, and 100k iron price tag. What a birthday present that is!

Required to build: Space Port

Deep Space Colony

What happens when you take two Orbital Habitats, stick em together, and call it a Deep Space Colony? A deep space colony! Just as it is, it's exactly the same as the Orbital Habitat, giving you an extra 250 workers maximum and providing more of the happy. But as always, there must be a downside. A 200k gold, 6k wood, and 200k iron downside.

Required to build: Orbital Habitat and Deep Space Exploration

Space Station

Another important structure as a unique building, this allows you to build the totally useless PDS and allows you to attack anyone in the universe. A must have.

Required to build: Deep Space Exploration

Space Dock

This space Dock will allow empires of the UNIVERSE to come and trade with you. +15% mercantile points!

Required to build: Deep Space Exploration

HLLB Satellite Facility

Boy, what an acronym. Don't ask what HLLB stands for. Its not that important but if you want to get satellites spying on your enemies or protecting your buddies, then this is the building for you!

Required to build: Deep Space Exploration

Military Academy

This is where all citizens of your empire go to learn how to become a better military unit.

Required to build: Advanced Weaponry

Advanced Weapons Facility

This is where all the advanced tanks and planes are manufactured. Want em? Get one. Don't want? then pass.

Required to build: Advanced Weaponry

Weather Control System (WCS)

Now why am I discussing this last? Because you'll only remember the first few and last few buildings after reading this, that's why. The weather Control System does what it says: controls the Weather. It doesn't do it very well, but it eliminates the chance of some hellish weather coming and smashing all your workers as they mine. A must buy if you want money. and you definitely want that, don't you?

Required to build: Satellite Surveillance

Wind and Crystal Power plants. Yep, the two best power plants. EVER. Now I do wonder why wind power was invented in a age where there's only a lot of empty voids, which might explain the crystal power plants absolute superiority to it. You know what to get: the diamond.Required to build: Wind Power or Light Amplification respectively.

Pointless Defensive Structures of the Advanced Age

It would be the PDS.

Did you think you researched everything so you'd learn everything? Well you can't know everything and that's why here in the advanced age.
Deep Space Exploration

This has a lot of reasons to be learned. For one: This is the space age. Without it, your empire would still have no idea what space is! This allows you build the Deep Space Colony, Space Dock, Space Station, HLLB Satellite Facility, and research Deep Space Reconnaissance, which all branch off through out the Tech Tree.

Required to learn: Space Center

Deep Space Reconnaissance

I see no reason how this is different than exploring since both are traveling through space but lets ignore that. This lets you build the close to useless Green ops, and the all friendly Communication Satellite for your alliance buddies.

Required to learn: Deep Space Exploration and Satellite Surveillance

Satellite Surveillance

What do you expect? it lets you do spy stuff. Moles, blue ops, Deep Space Recon. and Weather Control center.

Required to learn: Spycraft

Advanced Weaponry

Hello? I can't can't explain how obvious this research gives you. Advanced weapons. This branches to the Military academy and Advanced Weapons Facility. Don't why learning how to grow corn is required, it just does.

Required to learn: Diplomacy, Research Facility and Crop Rotation

Wind Power and Light Amplification

Respectively, they allow you to build wind power plants and Crystal power plants in SPACE! I think the fact that there needs to be wind for wind power plants to work in SPACE tells you which is the better buy. Again, don't ask what growing corn has ANYTHING to do with wind power OR crystallization. Light Amplification also allows Energy weapons to be researched.

Required to learn: Diplomacy, Research Facility and Crop Rotation

Borehole-Mining, Laser cutting, and Agricultural Machinery

Respectively, they add an extra 50% increase to your yields in gold, lumber jacking, and harvesting...corn.

Energy weapons

What do you think? Lasers? well yes, but apparently you learned that technology already in the Discovery age and the dogs are happy with them. Also, its evident that the upgrades don't do anything so this is an absolute pass.

Required to learn: Light Amplification

Counter Intelligence levels 4-5

Yep. Important indeed as this allows you to have a stronger Resistance to enemy spies. It also increases your chances of catching one through an intel sweep.

Required to Learn: Counter Intelligence levels 1-3

For the Advanced age, its quite sad to still see the lonely marine manning a tank while enemy attack helicopters fly in for the kill ON THE GROUND. General 5 stars helps you with this...by presenting you with big menus. And with an everlasting cigarette, he also has an everlasting frown and everlasting lung problems. That might be why he's here with text.
Now a unit breakdown.

Foot Troopers

I'd like to know how they fight on foot if they're in FREAKING SPACE. But the only unit you need to know is the flamethrower. Yeah, the crazy guy who just runs in with fire all over the place. This is considered the best in worth/power efficiency and it shows. Other units aren't important, and I'm lazy about it.

Tanks

Same thing as always, tanks has very little impact due to costs and power.

Aircraft

The stealth Bomber really seems like a good deal here, but you must understand that unit quantity over powers quality here. Like tanks, they are too costly and therefore only slightly better than a PDS.

When do I advance?
Advance where? This is the very last age, which means you're at the peak of the game!

Resources

With 1000 workers, resources come in insane bundles. However you'll soon realize that compared to oil, all other resources are not as worth while. Thus, you'll be having all 1000 mining oil or 856 if your still learning. There is an end point to learning, though.

Exploring

This is crucial. Not at first, no, but later on in this age. You'll be using all the resources you've accumulated and spending it all on the habitats, barracks for your army, crystal power plants for the barracks, and houses for massive army building. Land becomes short, and the TWG votes can't give nearly enough land to supplement. Exploring is almost 24/7 here if you want to expand at all.

Constructing

You'll mostly be building Barracks, houses and crystal power plants.

The orbital habitat and Space colony are musts for happy in your empire. (especially Bruce and General 5 stars)

Weather Control system is also important because you want high yields of oil.

Space dock is needed for the trading empire and because of oil's high price, this is a must.

Space stations are needed so your army could fly into space, attack something across the universe, then come back as if nothing happened. Also important...for General 5 stars to get happy. If he ever does, the big meany...

The HLLB is also good to have if your in an alliance so you can help your buddies out and maybe tag a enemy with a spy satellite.

If you want your army to belch fire like a drunk hobo (see hobowars...or not.) the Military Academy is important. Ignore the fact that people actually need to be TRAINED to wield a flamethrower...

The Advanced Weapons facility is useless. Ignore if you can.

Barracks are needed for your army to expand! Without it, you'd have no army to kill with. So build on, commander!

Houses are needed for citizens to come and transform into flame throwing brutes! :o

Any farms, gold mines, lumber yards, and iron deposits can be wiped out to make room for barracks. They are useless now and just take up space. and Bruce will so enjoy the work...

Research

Researching ends in this age, so after learning all that you need, you can move your workers to mine oil and explore. You should also research Projectiles and light armor if you're going to use flamethrowers, but like I said, its evident they do nothing.

Military

At this age, it's time to join the Persians than the Spartans. Quantity overpowers quality in these battles so only the use of dogs, snipers, and flamethrowers are any help at all. You'd be mass producing them, bringing the quantity well beyond a million and prepare them for mass bloodshed as you lead them into suicidal combat in a galaxy far, far away. You NEED this or else you've already lost due to attacks on yourself.

With 100% marketing efficiency, its time to play the market. Now here's the rule: Buy low sell high. What this means is mean the price is low, buy it. As you hold onto it, the price soars and then when you sell it all, you receive more than what you originally paid for it.

First things first:

Oil. This is a great resource to sell, but certainly not for buying. So while you may be mining it, you should not buy them because its high price will give you less profits than other resources. Moving on.

Food. An okay resource but there's two problems. One: the population will eat it and you lose the stocks. Two: you have a limitation to how much you can have. Not a good choice for profits, but good when building a large army quickly.

Iron/wood. They rival each other in this field of game play. Both can be purchased fairly cheap and can be sold in great heights. Prices fluctuate in a somewhat predictable manner so rioting is easy. Compared to oil, because you can buy 10X more in stock, you'll profit more with either than oil when buying AND selling.

Marketing is just a way to get rich fast. Getting 9000 oil a tick is great, but not sufficient enough for a growing empire. The extra money comes from either marketing, or attack benefits from a marketeer. And that leads to...

Risks. Because you'll be getting insane quantities of resources, your worth will get an insane jump and you become a target. Thus, you'll have the benefits of being rich but you also risk losing it all. Marketing is difficult to handle, and thus should be dealt with care.

Beyond here lies a complete array of what you can do next. Want to go nuts and go to war with Everyone? Defend your allies from attacks? Prefer the marketing way and get rich really fast to obtain royal rule? Or would you prefer to lay low, slowly build your way to the top? Here is where we all break apart into different empires and thus this guide becomes no use to you.