Online & Social
Astra Station is shared: other duelists walk around you, chat, challenge you and trade.
Online play is in an early test phase. Features and limits may change before release.
Logging in
- Log in once, in the main menu, with LOG IN WITH DISCORD. Your browser opens, you confirm on Discord, and the game signs you in everywhere: online duels, the market and tournaments.
- Online play is open to members of the Astra Discord server who hold the role that unlocks the game.
- Your first start: you design your duelist in the character creator, then pick your
duelist name: 3 to 16 characters, letters, digits, spaces and
_ - .. Names are unique and permanent once chosen. - While Astra City loads, the loading screen shows fun facts about the station and any running live event.
If you lose the connection outside a duel, the game reconnects by itself.
The online window (O)
Press O for the online window:
| Tab | What it does |
|---|---|
| PLAYERS | Everyone online: challenge, trade, whisper, add as friend, invite to your team or block. |
| FRIENDS | Your friends and friend requests. |
| TEAMS | Opens the team browser; see Teams & Team Base. |
| SERVER | Connection settings and LOG OUT (click twice to confirm). |
Your friend code (like ABCD-EFGH) is at the top, with COPY. Share it, or type someone
else's to send them a request.
Chat
Press Enter to open the chat and to send; Esc closes it and Tab switches the channel.
| Channel | Reaches | Command |
|---|---|---|
| Global | everyone online | /g |
| Local | duelists within 40 m of you | /l |
| Team | your team | /t |
| Whisper | one duelist | /w Name text |
/r answers the last whisper. Local and global messages also pop up as a speech bubble over your
duelist, and every duelist's nameplate shows their team tag in the team's color.
Friends and the player list
- The SOCIAL button on the bar at the bottom right opens FRIENDS (who is online, where they are and their level, with CHALLENGE, WHISPER and REMOVE), REQUESTS and BLOCKED. Click a friend for TRADE, INVITE TO TEAM and BLOCK.
- Hold Tab in the city for the player list: every duelist online with their level, team, location, ping and whether they are your friend. Click a name to whisper, add or challenge them.
Challenges
Challenge a duelist from the player list, the online window or your friends list. They get an ACCEPT popup.
- A challenge always gets an answer: accepted, declined, already in a duel, gone, or no answer after 60 seconds.
- Several challenges at once queue up, up to five.
- If you drop out of a running duel, your seat is held for 3 minutes so you can rejoin.
- Online win: 150 DP and 150 XP. Online loss: 30 DP and 50 XP.
Trading
Ask a duelist to trade from the player list or your friends. Both of you see one shared trade window:
- Both put in cards and DP. Any change sets both sides back to not ready.
- Both press READY, then CONFIRM TRADE.
- Only spare copies can be traded: cards your active deck still needs stay out.
- Astra Rares are traded one by one, by serial number.
- Cards with a special rarity keep it when they change hands.
- Locked cards, such as starter deck cards, can't be traded.
Looking for a fixed price or an auction instead? See the Astra Market.