SPPs: What they said. Cut it down to at least one selling ship, and raise your selling price. You might want to consider using the BPH script as well. With it you can eventually cut that down to one ship that will buy as well as sell. STs: Most any of the race's home sectors do well. I have found I ...

A little more information would be helpful. What ships are you using for your sector traders? Are they maxed out for speed and cargo? What sectors are they assigned to? Where did you build your SPPs? What is your crystal buying price? What is your energy cell selling price? How many jumps allowed? W...

What I do with SPP is buy a Manta or Iguana to buy crystals via BPH. No prohib., because when they have a high enough level they'll sell too. Until then I'd buy a Dolphin and let it sell traditionally. Hmmm. It'll be expensive to overhaul my Scorpion fleet... I'll wait and see, coz they're level 2 ...

Another good place is Lucky Planets. It sells well at 22 credits even without a seller ship. Though, it does behave oddly without the seller. It will fill up, then empty, and then fill again. Not very smooth, but still rakes in the profits. I imagine when the BPH trader gets to a higher level it wil...

I think I remember reading somewhere that 10 was the sweet spot.
Though, like everything else, I imagine this is highly debatable. heh

By the same logic, if X² were the only factor then obviously this would happen for everyone, or at least a significant number of people.. With all due respect, what exactly would be considered a significant number of people? This subject appears far too often in the tech support forum to just pass ...

Aggressiveness seems to be a key point as well. At least it has seemed that way to me. It I go into the fight looking to cap, I tend to be more cautious. I guess that is the right word. Trying to keep as much of the hull as I can. These battles tend to be drawn out and often frustrating. However, if...

The best place to put sector traders is in sectors with lots of
factories. These sectors tend to be home sectors. Family Pride,
Paranid Prime, and so on.

The Universe Trader option will only be available if the ship
is properly outfitted, and the pilot has reached level 8 at a
minimum

I reckoned I had the beating of it but it was just soo slow boredom beat us both. You were bored with X-COM??? One of the greatest games ever? Sacrilege!!! :shock: :fg: I still start it up on occasion on my old P200. :D There's still no modern replacement for it. :( Anyway, I think the sub game tha...

It has been a common occurance lately. I have
read a post or two recently saying the same thing,
an I have just lost one as well in the same way.

I am blaming that Goner cult.

Oh, yeah.... Another thing to consider is that a lot of the higher end goods take a long time to be produced. In particular 125mw shields and GPPCs. Also, some of the produced goods might be getting snatched up as soon as they are made. Wheat in argon territory is a good example, and Teladianium jus...

In Siezwell there is only 1 big enough for a station That I have seen. Thank you for the other info I will have a look. I am just looking for ones neerest my main power base. Hoping there was one I had not seen that could be of use. What about in the area of Kingdoms end / Menaleus? Going to have a...

X2 has sounds issues. No one will ever convince me otherwise. Anyway, since there are numerous threads about this very subject, and the "fixes" i will point you to the search function. http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/search.php Or, you could just browse a page or two deeper in this very forum. I am ...

Herron's Nebula, Three Worlds, and Antigone Memorial all have decent sillicon asteroids near Argon Prime. Then of course there is Ore Belt. Others scattered about (just off the top of my head): Rhonkar's Clouds has several Siezewell has several as well. Interworlds Omicron Lyrae the sector just west...

With SDS you can use one ship to supply a product to up to three different factories from one single factory. As an example, in one sector I have two crystal fabs. The most difficult thing to keep them supplied with is meatsteaks. So, I built three meatsteak bakeries to go with the two crystal fabs....

Product shortages in AI owned factories are great, and they are exactly what you should look for when looking for factories to build. I have four wheat factories in Argon Prime alone, with each only having one ship to buy energy cells. Not one of these factories have gotten close to filling themselv...

I am using the pegasus. The speed is so very nice. Especially when scanning asteroids and such. The only time I would really use the M5 for cargo is to pick up energy cells for the jumpdrive. However, since the Osprey has such a roomy cargo area, I can keep enough to get me back to Terracorp HQ to r...

The first ship to ship meating with the Khaak. I was in Herron's Nebula, and had just set down my second fab....A silicon mine. I was puttering around in my Disco waiting for my mercury to show up with it's load of energy cells when I notice an "Unknown Enemy Ship" on the sector map. "Target" "Move ...

To question three (the most debatable), I have only lost one demeter universe trader. He tried to fly through Xenon 347. The silly thing is the he had just ran out of that sector the previous trade. I guess he didn't learn his lesson. Serves him right. It sucks that he was lvl25, and my oldest. I ha...

I used the jumpdrive routine for a while as well. The first M6 I bought was an Osprey. I used it to do some assassination missions till I could afford a TL. When I bought the TL, I bought a Perseus as well. When I would get the message of an attack, either I or my Osprey would jump there depending o...