Credits are the current currency in Avorion and are used to pay everything that can be paid for. They are acquired by selling resources, blocks, turrets, or entire spaceships. Furthermore, credits can be obtained by selling whole asteroids or completing missions.
Usage of credits
Credits are used to build blocks or buy turrets.
When building something made of a material, such as a block or a turret, the number of credits required to build the item increases slower than the amount of strength gained.
This means, that a block made of titanium will be 1.5x stronger than the same block made of iron but it will only cost 1.35x more credits.
Upcoming Features
Credits will probably be used in the upcoming trading system.