My understanding is that the figure in brackets is the price you would set to break even - i.e. if you are selling at 16, and the brackets figure is 13, you would be making a profit of 3 per unit sold. Your freighters assigned to a factory will deal only with that factory's funds. So all money spent...

Bizarrely, Shore of Infinity is taking forever to train one pilot up in my (X2) game. Queens Space and Empires Edge are the two winners for me

I was having same issue yesterday and stumbled upon a sector selling them - 25MW Shield factory. Irritatingly I can't remember where - I think it was near Light of Heart, possibly Akeela's Beacon? It was Argon sector, so should be no problem with rep.

A lot of suggestions for booze/weed in other threads - is this more X3 than X2?

I would welcome some input on this - I have currently got 15 stations, mostly SPPs, with one loop in Profit Share. I have also tried Wheat in the Wall as that has been suggested as a good one (and does seem to work well). Also tried Teladaianium Foundries in two of the Boron BoGas sectors, they seem...

I've never blown up a Pirate Base before - perhaps because I am uncertain on the advantages. What do you get from blowing one up?

Apologies for a "newbie" question, but I need to be sure on this:

If I dowload the bonus plug-in pack, will this reset my savegames? Will it be compatible with version 1.5?