THE JUMPGATE DEFINITIVE GUIDE - Tripod

econstruction projects. Most such items have to be produced. Production in
turn demands other commodities.
Most things start out as raw materials, sometimes called '1st tier commodities'.
Most raw materials are produced by planets and made available at a small
number of stations. Asteroid mining (of regular and pure 'roids) produces some
raw materials, but rarely in large quantities.
Sometimes the raw material can be used immediately to satisfy a demand:
Textiles are a good example.
Textile Demand and Supply
The planet Hypsos produces Textiles as a raw material. A fixed amount is
supplied to Hyperial station market at regular intervals. Textiles have no specific
uses in production, but are required at most stations to cloth pilots and
planetary populations.
Our Premia pilot, having finally dropped off that Radium, sees an opportunity to
cloth his fellow pilots. He buys up Textiles and transports them to Solrain Core.
On arrival and sale, he'll not only be benefiting the station, but because he has
shipped from a production point to a demand point, he'll see some profit as well.
If the demand for textiles was not met, the only consequence is a Role-Play one
- Solrains begin to get known across the galaxy for their outdated dress sense.
Many of the demands shown below have far more noticeable consequences for
other pilots.
In most cases raw materials need to be fed into production processes. In some
cases the result of one production process is needed for another process, and
so on. The production dependencies of certain items are long and complex.
8. Production
Every production process requires some combination of specific commodities.
These commodities must be present at a producing station, either on the public
market or in the hidden inventory, for production to occur.
On the EU server production is restricted to a small number of stations for any
one item. On the US server 'trickle' production allows the production of many
items at many stations, in addition to the main production stations.
Stations produce things in regular cycles. These 'production cycles' last just
over six minutes. (There is currently a double production cycle every tenth cycle
- the reason for this is not clear.)
Each station has a production capacity per cycle for each item it can produce.
This is often referred to as the 'production index'. This is the maximum number
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