I spaced the egg-yoke twins, took their ships, secured Leap of Faith, tore VIG apart and then paid them to like me (duh... they should've paid me for not wiping them off the map... hmpf).
Now some questions came up for me:
- Now I should be the sole distributor of protectyon. Correct?
- If I don't supply Avarice with protectyon the stations will go *plop* and I can establish my energy cell monopoly in that 1390% sun sector. Correct?
- What is the consumption rate of protectyon? 1 protectyon per station per tide?
- Can someone tell me the exact frequency between tides?
- Does the full tide loop (including damage to ships) work even when I'm out of sector and does it happen with the same frequency?
Tidebreak is sitting on 5000 protectyon and prices are down to <23k Cr (I didn't sell anything yet). Almost feels like a bug since the Avarice system was supposed to be kept on high demand by the twins? At least the plot is about the "high price" of protectyon and that only comes with low availability in X4 - when there is 5000/5000 available, prices are as low as they can get. Did anyone experience low stocks right after that plot? I tried to drain their stock but I didn't figure out how to store 5000 protectyon. The 2 Astrids can hold 860, my station module only 5 more and and one Raleigh only 25, so it's kinda hard to drain that supply.
If #3 is correct I fear it might take around 100 hours for Avarice to run out of protectyon. Could someone share a bit of experience about how the supply develops over time? Am I overthinking this because assumptions 1 and 2 are ultimately incorrect?
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Oops! I just found the Condensate storage module size S which, according to the encyclopedia, can hold 10000 "somethings" of protectyon. Probably m³? So 1000 protectyon per module
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Exploit found?
Last but not least I think there seems to be a little exploit on Tidebreak. Fooling around with the new protectyon stuff I noticed that once I got Astrid and ~10 million credits to spare I could buy 430 protectyon for 22500Cr from Tidebreak, which will raise the price of protectyon to 22980.69Cr. Now I can instantly sell it to Tidebreak, making an on-the-spot profit of 205024Cr. Rinse and repeat for infinite amounts of cash..? Not sure if Tidepoint will run out of credits at some point, but doesn't look like it
Did this loop about 5 times until I got the achievement "Market Regulation" - tho I'm not sure what the achievement was exactly. The in-game CBNN News report a new Northriver competitor... is this triggered by selling x amount of protectyon or by building a station that sells the stuff or.. ehm.. duh? Super puzzled.