[X2] vicious boron?

[rugaard]

ive been playing x2 for a couple days and one thing ive noticed is that the boron are destroying the argon economy at a fairly quick pace. this is making it fairly hard to earn credits through trading how would i go about stabilizing this declining economy? i know i need to place stations of the resources with the most demand but im not exactly sure where to place these stations. also do npc stations get removed for not producing anything after an amount of time has passed?

[Nanook]

Why do you think it's the Boron? They're allies with the Argon, so shouldn't ever attack them. Have any scripts or mods installed?

As for the stations, in X2, they're fixed. There is no GoD engine to remove them or make more, so once they get destroyed by enemy action, they're gone for good. Of course, this leaves the player free to fill in any holes in the economy, or even make them.

[rugaard]

i didnt say the boron were attacking the argon, just buying all the products in argon space mostly powercells and deluxian wheat and without those resources i know that many stations in argon space cant produce anything, and i know its the boron because they have 3x as many TP ships as all the other races combined in the argon sectors. so far half the stations in the argon sectors are completely bare of any resources and products

must be the kha'ak destroying the stations then

[adobis]

Well that means you've found a market to put some stations

But hell yeah, Borons are nasty!

[Paranoid66]

Could this be the result of the mighty X2 Dolphin with all that cargo space compared to their rivals.

[rugaard]

ye it is, I'm not sure but the dolphin also seems to be the fastest tp out there, so far Ive placed 3 wheat farms but have yet to see much of an effect, 1 spp but I'm annoyed that the npcs only go to it when the furthest is more expensive, I have it set to 15 cr, should i lower it?

[bravoman]

In general NPCs only go to your station when it's cheaper than others. I've typically set my factories in X2 to -1 below average and usually keep stock sold out.