X3:Reunion Manual - Steam

You can purchase fighter craft and “homebase” them to a station, where they willautomatically protect it once they arrive there. The same homebase settings apply to lasertowers and mines for area defence and also to assign fighter escorts to protect your tradingvessels.Q: Any help for a budding trader just starting out?A: Sure, try a Wheat farm in the Wall or Crystal Fabrication Plant in Argon Prime. Both ofthese sectors have the protection of capital patrol ships and have access to a good supply ofcheap energy cells. A factory here should be able to trade unmolested (although there is noguarantee that pirates or other enemies won’t come) and if you stay in close proximity early inits life, you can personally protect it until such a time as you can afford laser towers andfighter patrols.Q: How do I make my factories auto transfer its profits to my account?A: Go to your station Command Console, Station Commands, Slot .. ‘Auto money transfer toplayer account’, then enter an amount such as 200,000 and any funds the station createsabove that amount will be transferred to your account.Q: Why have the factories in some sectors changed?A: In a word, war. The truce between some of the races is sometimes put aside due to somelocal issue on race borders. This will occasionally spill over into a dispute that will only besettled with fleets of ships from opposing sides and this will inevitably result in some tradersloosing their stations, which other traders will take advantage of by setting up their own.TradingThis was followed by a greatly applauded lecture by Iyes Di, the famed Gunn’r who, afteryears of dedicated cartography of the universe, became a strong advocate of theharmonisation of factory economic cycles and proponent of factory looping techniques.Q: How do I increase my trading ranks?A: There are many ways your trading rank can be increased, essentially by you or yourtrading assets buying resources below the average price and selling your products at anabove average price, this is the definition of profits, so the more you make the higher theincreases. Additionally if you come across various artefacts or alien enemy technologies andsell them to the friendly races, you will also improve your notoriety. If you also have otherraces buying your products and you’ve successfully completed trading missions from theBulletin Board messages you will also increase your trading rank, additionally with these lasttwo, you will also increase your reputation with those races.Q: How do I use the Mobile Drilling System to collect Ore?A: You are able to mine precious metals and minerals from asteroids once they have beenbroken up into small enough pieces.Only some ships can be equipped with a Mobile Drilling System Laser, for instance in the TSclass using the turret, like the Demeter Miner fromParanid Prime, Vulture Miner in Ianamus Zura andthe Caiman Tanker in Family Tkr. Those with ahealthy Credit balance and a desire to do it in stylecan use a M6 class ship with a Super Freighter intow for extra storage, using the Goner Transporter totransfer collected minerals.49For mining you will also need an Ore Collector, anda Mineral Scanner, additionally if your TS miningship has not got them fitted, install extras like theTriplex Scanner for finding Asteroids and the BestSelling Price to help quickly turn that rock into hardCredits.