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[NewtSoup]

Is it possible to board a ship without destroying the drone bay?

I found my boarding of a Rahanas would not progress until I'd taken out the drone bay, which I didn't want to do. I felt that keeping the cargo lifters and the construction drones would be a "good thing".

[Alan Phipps]

Yes by lengthening the odds by leaving enough alternatives (force field projectors, turrets, Trojan scans, etc) available for passing all the 'assist' phases - hopefully without the RNG selecting the drone bay amongst all those. If your boarding attack vs defence points balance is very favourable you can even skip doing an assist phase without necessarily having marine losses.

If there are no real alternative options for an assist, the drone bay will almost always be selected.

You can also save after each successful assist and then reload if the drone bay gets selected next - but such save-scumming is rather boring and cheesy.

[NewtSoup]

Thanks Alan

[Loltak]

Hi,
Just 2 quick questions/remarks :

- Do you set-up your own sell price for station?
It seems that when market price is largely below the base ware price the manager is unable to lower it sufficiently to attract NPC buyer.

- Is it correct that an intermediate ware will not be mark as saleable by the manager until stock are almost full?

Thx
Bye

[CommanderTM]

Has anyone added SETA and jump drive to skunk by save game editing? Would like to have them from the start of the game. Not the very start but after i make the first save game. Any tips would be welcome!

[X2-Illuminatus]

Adding SETA with save editor/editing save file...

[CommanderTM]

Adding SETA with save editor/editing save file...

Thank you very much!!! How about Jumpdrive??

[Alan Phipps]

Everything you need to know the in-game ID for is detailed here under the items in the inventory tab. Beware though as edits/cheats are addictive and can ruin your game if uncontrolled!

[CommanderTM]

Everything you need to know the in-game ID for is detailed here under the items in the inventory tab. Beware though as edits/cheats are addictive and can ruin your game if uncontrolled!

Thank you.

That will not be a problem for me... It would ruin the game if i would accidentally get 1 million due to a bug or something. I cant live with a feeling that i havent achieven everything myself in a game like this. That is why i never get companions in RPG's like Skyrim and Fallout.

[CptAWatts]

Is there a way to tell the station manager to only buy a certain amount of resources? Basically I want a cap so I can actually have a profit instead of him continually buying resources?

[RAVEN.myst]

Is there a way to tell the station manager to only buy a certain amount of resources? Basically I want a cap so I can actually have a profit instead of him continually buying resources?

Unfortunately, no - that's one of my own pet bugbears, in fact (as well as the fact that a particular ware can only be set to both buy AND sell or not, but can't be set separately - ie. sell but don't buy or vice versa, which they ought to be able to)

[CptAWatts]

Thats what I thought. Thanks

[Santi]

I use Medium ships like Gigurums for exactly that situation, the lower speed and smaller cargo load slows the manager buying stuff.

[RAVEN.myst]

I use Medium ships like Gigurums for exactly that situation, the lower speed and smaller cargo load slows the manager buying stuff.

Also, I find that managers are actually quite smart when they have lots of freighters - in my most recent game, I was giving new stations 6-9 M-sized freighters (2-3 of each relevant cargo type) each as soon as I built them (the stations, that is), and found that almost immediately the freighters would head off for different stations to buy different things - with enough freighters, all the required resources would get collected in one set of trips (except when a radar was needed first, of course.)

[CptAWatts]

I'm also having trouble selling wares. On the offers menu I see large buy orders at prices higher than my stations sell orders but the trade ships that can carry the ware still sit there "looking for trades". The stations that are buying are also in the same sector. Any way to get them to sell without manually doing it? Maybe even a mod suggestion?

[UniTrader]

do you possibly have commissions which give you better prices than regular? these only apply to Trades directly ordered by you, they are not available to your Ships, and they also cannot see them.


and i just wasted my 13.000th post for this.. can i get some kind of Award like [SPAMMER] now?

[CptAWatts]

hmm, yeah I do actually...But in this case the only modifier is High demand +14 percent. Do they see that modifier?

[UniTrader]

nope, commission percents are only available for the Player directly, not for player owned Ships. the price they see is before any bonusses (i think this also excludes the faction rep bonus, but not entirely sure)

[CptAWatts]

I don't think it is a commission modifier though. It just says that there is a high demand and that is why it is plus 14 percent.

[UniTrader]

thats a Storage-based "commission" which affects the Price for everyone, so yes, your Ships can see it. no more ideas from my side then.