How a Match Pays You Stars
The panel states its own rule at the top of the shop — Unlock once, keep it forever. Earn Stars by playing matches. A finished match then shows a box titled Stars earned with six lines and one total. In a 13:55 solo victory recorded on 26 October 2026 the lines were:
- Match played
- Time survived
- Land held
- Nations conquered
- First place
- Victory
The same box closed with +1,035 Stars, printed WITH 2X STARS: +2,070 underneath, and carried the line Stars unlock new weapons in the Arsenal. The account balance read 43,695.
Two things follow that you can act on. First, land held and survival are paid categories, so a cautious match that ends in a win is not a wasted one. Second, the 2X STARS boost in the Arsenal doubles the whole payout — 1,035 becoming 2,070 in the same box.
NOTE
What this page will not do is give you a formula. The per-line values were too small to read at the capture resolution, and the three that were legible did not add up to the printed total, so they are left out rather than guessed. Payouts also vary by match: victories on record paid +3,010 (19 Oct 2026), +1,765 (25 Oct 2026) and +1,035 (26 Oct 2026). Treat any single figure as an example, not a rate.
What the Arsenal Charges
The shop keeps eight items in four groups. Every row prints one number, and the detail panel behind it prints a second currency. Both captures below come from the same build family; the balance in the corner is the thing that changed.
| Unlock | What the panel says it does | Robux price (25 Oct 2026) | Stars unlock |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Nuke (nuke) | A nuke four times the blast of an Atom Bomb, launched from a Missile Silo | 39 | 20,000 — read from the detail panel's "Or earn it by playing" progress bar |
| Scattershot (nuke) | Splits into 4 to 6 warheads; a single SAM cannot stop them all | 67 | 40,000 — printed as "OR UNLOCK WITH 40,000" on 26 Oct 2026 |
| Reinforcements (order) | "Pay gold to get 20% more troops at once. Ready again every 30 seconds." | 149 | 40,000 — quoted by the recorder who owns it, not read from a panel |
| Artillery (army) | Not read in these captures | 99 | Not read — the row printed the Robux figure in both captures |
| Air Strike (army) | Not read in these captures | 349 | Not read |
| Railgun (army) | Not read in these captures | 999 | Not read |
| 2x Stars (boost) | Doubles the end-of-match payout, as the WITH 2X STARS line on the victory box confirms | 59 | No Stars price shown on the row |
| Rapid Reload (boost) | Not read in these captures | 129 | No Stars price shown on the row |
Opening an item shows what the row cannot. Mega Nuke on 25 October 2026 read BUY NOW 39 with Or earn it by playing: 2,040 of 20,000 — that progress bar is your Star balance against the unlock price. Scattershot on 26 October 2026 read BUY NOW 67 with a second button, OR UNLOCK WITH 40,000. So an unlock can be bought outright with Robux or ground out with Stars, and the Stars figure is on the detail panel, not always on the row.
Why three rows still have no Stars price
The row itself printed Stars on exactly two items in the 26 October capture — Mega Nuke 20K and Scattershot 40K — while Artillery, Air Strike and Railgun printed 99, 349 and 999. In the 25 October capture, taken at a 2,040-Star balance, every row printed Robux instead, including Mega Nuke at 39 and Scattershot at 67.
The pattern that fits both captures: the row shows the Stars price only for unlocks the account can already afford. The 43,695-Star account could pay 20,000 and 40,000; the 2,040-Star account could pay none. Nothing on screen states that rule, so this page treats it as a probable explanation and not a fact — and it is why the three expensive rows are marked "not read" rather than filled in.
CORRECTION
Two older readings on this site did not survive the new captures. The Arsenal and nukes page listed Railgun at 75,000 Stars, and the how-to-play guide carried an 11 October 2026 list (Air Strike 20,000, Railgun 40,000, Artillery 50,000). No capture shows a Stars price for any of those three; both pages now say so and send price questions here. Scattershot's Robux price was also misread as 47 and is now 67 on every page.
What to Buy First
Price decides the order more than power does, because the cheapest confirmed unlock is also the one that changes a fight you are already in.
If you lose fights you were winning on the map, buy Reinforcements. It is the one item a full-run recorder tells his own chat to save for — "I would recommend buying these first, it's 40k." What it buys you is troops on demand: Pay gold to get 20% more troops at once. Ready again every 30 seconds. The recorder puts the in-match cost at 100K gold per use; the panel itself only says "Pay gold". Either way it converts a stalling treasury into a second army on a 30-second clock, and it works every match because it is a permanent unlock.
If your walls of Defence Posts and SAMs are what stops you, buy the Mega Nuke. At 20,000 Stars it is half the price of Reinforcements, and it is the cheapest unlock whose price this site can actually read. It is 4x an Atom Bomb's blast and launches from a Missile Silo, which is the same delivery path the endgame guide covers.
How long either one takes
Use your own payouts, not a rate from a video. At the 26 October 2026 victory of +1,035 Stars:
- Mega Nuke, 20,000 Stars — about 19 victories; about 10 with the
2X STARSboost, which paid+2,070on the same match. - Reinforcements, 40,000 Stars — about 39 victories; about 19 with the boost.
Those are arithmetic on one recorded match, not a promise: a victory on 19 October 2026 paid +3,010, which would nearly halve both counts. Read your own Stars earned box after the next match and divide.
Hold the Robux unless it is the only way you play. The panel sells the same unlock twice, and the Star path costs nothing but matches. The one boost that pays for itself is 2X STARS at 59, which doubles every future payout — including the ones you were already going to earn.
Check the Prices Yourself in Three Steps
Prices moved between the two captures on this page, so do not trust a screenshot — including these.
- Open the Arsenal from the title screen. The button sits under the star counter on the right, next to
CRATES; the shop does not need a match in progress. - Read the row, then click it. The row prints one figure. The detail panel prints the other: a green
BUY NOWbutton carries the Robux price, and a line under it (OR UNLOCK WITH …, or a progress bar reading Or earn it by playing) carries the Stars price. - Compare against your balance in the top-right corner. That number is what the progress bar counts against, and on 26 October 2026 it was the difference between seeing
20Kand seeing39on the same row.
If a figure you see disagrees with this page, the panel wins — it is the thing that will charge you. The capture dates above tell you how old this reading is.
The ULTIMATE RoWorld Guide: full solo run and the Arsenal shop
Video by Bratva
Checkpoints: [02:49] the factory at 125K gold; [04:50] the MIRV tooltip reading 25M gold and up to 350 warheads; [14:35] the Stars earned box (+1,035, or +2,070 with 2X STARS); [14:44] the Arsenal list at a 43,695-Star balance; [15:12] the Scattershot detail with BUY NOW 67 and OR UNLOCK WITH 40,000 Stars. Recorded 26 October 2026. Watch on YouTube
What This Page Cannot Tell You
Three things are still open, and each one changes a purchase decision:
- The Stars price of Artillery, Air Strike and Railgun. The detail panel was never opened on those three in any capture this site holds. If you open them, you will know more than this page does.
- Whether the prices are stable. Scattershot read 67 Robux on both 25 and 26 October, but a 11 October report on record carries 47, and the listing itself was edited on 27 October. Treat every figure here as dated to its capture.
- How the payout is calculated. Six named lines, one total. The weights are not printed anywhere this site has read.
What does not depend on any of that: Stars only come from playing matches, the boosts are the only items that change the payout itself, and no unlock on this shop is required to win a match.