Factions buying ships from you

[Miravlix]

As far as I can tell, if I can go into the buy menu and select High Preset, it seems like they will buy from me.

In case of a Nemesis, I don't need any medium weapons to sell it, that makes for a really strange Nemesis, but hey I will take the money. (I had turrets due to needing them for stations.)

Also you need the right ship type to make them buy, but they are perfectly happy with buying the preferred ship with other races equipment. I buy the teladi shields and paranid engines and Argon is more than happy buying Quazar fighters with those engines and shields.

Do they pay more for top and fully fitted ships? (No idea what they pay, shouldn't this be logged every time we sell a ship???)

If I only have Teladi shields, does that mean all races that buy from me end up with the best shields or is it a somewhat faked purchase and it create a standard faction ship as it leaves the warf?

[ezra-r]

I would guess they pay the same price you would in one of their shipyards/Wharfs. But you can set the percentage of the price they pay, I rise up to 110% and they still keep buying.

[vadiolive]

you can rise up 150% and they going buy like crazy ,, after this point is game over anyways
except if you declare war

[Miravlix]

you can rise up 150% and they going buy like crazy ,, after this point is game over anyways
except if you declare war

I think you mean any money making is going to outpace spending, not that it's true yet, with just one warf running fully self supplied for me.

The Paranid and Split quests require a ton of money and I need a fleet of my own when I'm done with those, but yeah after that income should be way higher than spending, so bit over the top to call the start of warf/shipyards the end of the game. It's perhaps the height of the mid game and as you finish spending money on fleets it moves toward end game, but that is like 100++ hours after the first warf.

[mr.WHO]

I have 15b in my account from my SY and Wharf.
I really like this end-game, post-money phase.

It made Paranid plot much easier and faster, as I was just bother with construction and resource delivery, but not costs.
Same with Split plot that I'm currently doing.

I hope that 4.0 will introduce more of such plots.

[ezra-r]

I am buying/building so many Fleets for defence and conquer that the money from Shipyard/Wharf is constantly being spent, not game over, but deep end-game

[grapedog]

Because SY and wharfs produce such obscene amounts of money, i limit myself on who can purchase from them. In my current ZYA playthrough, only myself and ZYA can purchase ships at my shipyard.

Ive yet to see a faction buy equipment from other races at my shipyard thiugh.

[pref]

you can rise up 150% and they going buy like crazy ,, after this point is game over anyways
except if you declare war

Nah thats just an initial rush when they can fill all their quotas in an all peaceful hoarder's game where all factions buy from player. Eventually they push back xenon and the situation stabilises.

I had a wharf that made 6-800m/h initially then it dropped to about 120m/h with xenon being extinct and ZYA & FAF as an enemy.

[vadiolive]

my bad i forget how pacefull vanilla game is....

<- running with VRO+FE all time

[grapedog]

my bad i forget how pacefull vanilla game is....

<- running with VRO+FE all time

Lol, i wish my vanilla game was as peaceful as whatever you're imagining...

[gorgofdoom]

you can rise up 150% and they going buy like crazy ,, after this point is game over anyways
except if you declare war

I think you mean any money making is going to outpace spending, not that it's true yet, with just one warf running fully self supplied for me.

The Paranid and Split quests require a ton of money and I need a fleet of my own when I'm done with those, but yeah after that income should be way higher than spending, so bit over the top to call the start of warf/shipyards the end of the game. It's perhaps the height of the mid game and as you finish spending money on fleets it moves toward end game, but that is like 100++ hours after the first warf.

these quests SEEM like they require a lot of money... However I did the Paranid quest in a single M ship. The fights worked themselves out without me.