Hello, I have an "SDS deliver to 3" running which supplies 3 stations from my SPP. However, my impression is that the SDS software is somewhat buggy, so I would like to know if someone can confirm this or explain it. I find that the software works fine when I set credits per unit to 1. However, when...

Hmm so a 240k power plant that can make back the money it was bought for within 2.5 hours in a good spot isnt profitable enough for you?

I could certainly agree if you said that some of the stations werent profitable enough

Okay. Everything except SPPs is not profitable enough...

You might contest that Loops in general is cheating To the contrary. When you invest money and set up a factory, you can well expect that it generates some value (and not just compensates for its own expenses). A chain of factories is an even bigger investition. I even think that the value generati...

Do I sound arrogant if I say that I do not feel the need for such a tool, or written loop diagrams, for I have no problem planning my loops using only my brain? That does not mean that there is something wrong with anybody else using such help if so desired. I just do not have the impression that it...

If you read my post I don't "watch my account going up", I use the SMS log to check how much my factories earn. So I did with the two final fabs in my loops. Besides before that I'd already done my calculations. Yes. You calculated how much profit your closed loop would make. But from what you wrot...

chovy, I do not think that in a "guide to loops" (and that is the subject of this thread as defined by esd) discussion about loop efficiency is out of place. I understand your standpoint, which is that you prefer closed loops because they are easier to understand and handle. I subsume this under "be...

The BBCode implementation is provided by PHPBB, with things like the spoiler tags added. I assumed so. I just figure you might be using an obsolete version of it if your version requires the quotation marks while all the others do not. The Spoiler tag is a nice invention by your team, btw. Suggesti...

psst. DeathandPain...esd said "...providing a product that was made using only your materials... " Psst... chovy... I never said that such a thing cannot be done. I just pointed out that and why it is not reasonable to do it (unless you want to do it just for the beauty of having it). they already ...

Egosoft is using the popular BBcode software for their forums, which is not a bad thing. However, I found that different implementations of BBCode slightly differ, apparently as a result of different versions and custom additions to the forum functionality. Today most forums support personalized quo...

And how is a noob supposed to find out about that? I mean, not everyone frequents the Egosoft forums... A question of both game (or mod) design and documentation...

That would be true if the universal economy wasn't in a recession, DeathAndPain. However, it IS, and if you want an empire of hundreds of factories to work, you need to have some closed loops in order to supply power to the rest of it--the NPC stations can't supply enough to keep the existing facto...

Okay, there is both trash and true information to be found in this thread. 512MB RAM is the typical amount in a good new machine today. I always tend to have double the amount of what is usual, because it does make games have less loading times (more data can be cached). However, in your case the me...

The downside of these closed loops is that they are not efficient money-wise. With all those stations, you could be making much more money if you included NPC stations. And still you could get the products you desire. The profit from closed loops is minimal. The value of the output of a single spp i...

After you buy the ship they have a screen asking what you want on the ship. You have to pay for it but aleast you can get 25mw so buy the cheap ship then tell them to put 25mw on it if you have the credz. No, cnecktor, Darkstar is right: The screen you mentioned only offers stuff to you that the st...

Hmm... I am not sure what "out-of-sector"-combat is supposed to mean. :? Perhaps I am not deep enough into the plot yet? (I am working on my economy right now.) Or do I just have to fly a certain amount of km away from the core of a sector in order to enter "deep space", where the rules of combat ar...

Everything is reduced to a mathematical formula at that point. IonDs actually make decent weapons for defenders due to their rating. At this point my English appears to desert me. What do you mean by "due to their rating"? I mean, it is the damage/sec that counts for a weapon, isn't it? And IonDs d...

Its a faster craft. its only downfall is that is has 33% less shielding with only two 25Mw shields compaired to a Nova's 3x25Mw. thats if you can find them so early.. you have to go east. That is only one of the two big advantages of the Barracuda. Even more important to me is that it has the stron...

I'm considering placing a Trading Station or Equipment Dock down next to an AI equipment dock (maybe in Getsu Fune, with the multiple EQ docks, product's a little low on everything though), and placing ships to purchase the equipment, and sell at full price. I'm not sure if the AI will purchase fro...

So DnP's complaint is that: The state of the economy of the Xverse, when you start, is extremely bad. No. It is illogical. It being bad is only the consequence. A logical economy in recession could be dealt with by any player who knows to most obvious basics of economy (as pointed out by j_snare). ...

Darkstar, the problem for the newbie is not to find out that she can only buy products and sell resources from/to a factory. She will find out about that quickly, because that nice female voice says so when you try otherwise. The problem is to do it and still buy low and sell high. Once you have lea...