Ketraar wrote:NewtSoup wrote:Ketraar wrote:I learned no too long ago from Cycrow on the steam forums that Secondary do give stations a bonus, albeit a small one. I too was convinced they were just there as a sink.
MFG
Ketraar
Now I'm confused lol But doesn't matter because my ships deal in secondaries anyway. They go where the profitsss are.
Unconfusing things:
- Only NPC stations have Secondary Resources
- Secondary Resources give these stations a small boost in production (
Cycrows statement here )
It wont affect your trading opportunities much, unless you rely on NPC station output, then it may be a good strategy to keep the secondary stocked up for greater output.
MFG
Ketraar
Certainly do. The way I run my trade networks is this:
Instead of big self sufficient complexes I only build complexes of a certain resource level. So Wheat, Sunrise Flowers, Argnu Beef, etc will get complexed together.
The output of these complexes is then sold purely to NPC stations for a good profit.
My next level up - cahoona bakeries, Nostrop refineries, BoFu factories etc then buy their resources only from NPC suppliers at as close to minimum price as I can get.
That way I make the best profits on my own stations at every stage of production. AND it means no NPC stations that might be useful get poofed out of existence for stagnating.
At the moment because I don't have any complexes up and runing I'm using CLS to supply energy and resources between npc stations but they will get turned into CAGs as needed.
I will turn the script editor on in time because sooner or later stations will get damaged and station repair services are few and far between. Instead I like to create a repair ship from a Boron Hyrda ( yeah I found a use for a hydra! ) and I script a load of repair lasers onto it's nose.
