Ramblings of an Argon Nephew-(Trader's guide)

[TTD]

Well Oi be
'avin mapped out The west and south and southeast,and come back through pirate alley ,doin' all sort ov build missions along the way,loik,I have just found meself vriendz wif te Yaki.
They even let me buy any ship Oi be a wantin'.

Thar zeems to be somtin' wrong with their sales computer,though. Oi''ad te be in another setor to buy the Chokaro.
Woi can't they repair it?
Oi go all te ways to te station an he tells me oi can't buy it while Oi'm 'ere.
Betcha he'd av no trouble iv 'ee wanted one
edit( This may have been fixed in later versions-not checked lately as of 31-5-10)

Nice looking station though!

Oi sent the Chok to my usual place.

Still got the north eastern frontiers to map and Oi saw the Terran station in Heretics end.Boy they know 'ow te build 'em.dun' em'?

But Oi bin thinkin' oi have enough credits te build another complex zomplace.

This toim Oi think it be Paranid space.
The top five secondary resources required in Paranid Home sectors is as follows


Crystals
Teladianium
Nostrop Oil
Warheads
Cloth Rhimes

So Oi av te voind some place for it all.

Duke's Vision.
It will be like this...

2x Crystal Fab L
1x Flower Farm L
1x Ore Mine L 22y
1x Rimes Fact L
1x Silicon Mine L 56y
1x SPP L
2x SPP M
2x Soyery L
1x Soyery M
1x Soyfarm M
1x Sun Oil Refinery l
1x Teladianium Foundry L
1x Weapon component Factory
1xWheat Farm L

Total cost with CCKs 57,320,980 cr

[TTD]

Well,Master Xadrian, Oi'm not zayin' it an't or or your cartographer was not up to his job,but the local cartographer offered help. have explored out to 500km on three elevations with a triplex scanner.

We just can't voind that 56 yield silicon 'roid.

However there seems to be a good supply of minerals from the Paranid mines,so Oi'l jus' 'ave te re-run some calculations.

[EmperorJon]

GoD knows why, but that asteroid is actually at

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2
-91
-13

coordinates in km.

It's a good 100 or so km from both the gates, and 90-110km from most of the installations, so plenty of space for your complex, but no idea why it's there!

It's not even like there's a debirs field, or more asteroids, or a wreck that would make it interesting, it's like it somehow ended up... bouncing there, y'know, because of collision detection?

[TTD]

Cheer's for that.

Oi'l be avin another look then,But must dock somewhere before Oi loose ever'thin' oi've bin doin'.

Hail te Emperor

So back to my original idea....

[Mr. Reeves]

good progress. I had an incident where my sector patrol got smacked by a argon TS and opened up it. My rep didn't take a hit and I thought no big deal. WRONG!!! I jumped OOS to do some more building on a station, but the SP was killing Argons and I didn't know. All my stuff is in Argon space. So eventually other SP started killing Argons because they were red and it snowballed out of control with my whole fleet in Argon Prime got aggrowed into a fight wit pissed off traders and blew them up. My M7M is to blame. This pissed off everyone and all hell broke loose. By this time I knew the situation was out of control and not wanting to kill any more of my friends I jumped the fleet out and left some fighters to die for me as the retreat happened.

By this time my rep was completely trashed having burned down every big ship and my fighters launched hammering on everyone as they defended my base and 1-3 B credit uber plexes.

So now with my infra structure under fire by my friends and negotiations not going well. I am playing fall out 3 game of the year edition as I sulk.

[TTD]

oh dear...a little bit of micro management does get tedious,but you found out what happens if you forget.

Let this be a lesson for all of us.

I am surprised no-one mentioned I actually bought two new ships from a shipyard? (Yaki).So far as I recall,they are the only new ships I have bought other than the ORCA.The rest,except for my first Mercury are all 2nd hand.

And just to prove that lump of silicon is there....

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Since this is some 100 km from the ore mine,I think I will do a stacked complex.

[Mr. Reeves]

Me and the yaki are really close. We exchange ordinance whenever we meet. We even watch fireworks together.

[TTD]

Oi'll giv' 'ee vireworx iv 'ee starts a chewin' on moi fleet.

Oi 'ave vinished me new complex and primary outputs are Teladianum.Nostrop oil and Warheads.

Oi have it all runnin'noicely an I zeroed te cash.
Now te zee if it brings me owt.

Oi only 'ad te tow the Ore Mine into place.Te rest all stacked nicely.

Oi'l zend the a pic with this post when Oi can,zo check back.

Well Oi waz 'opin' too but te station is so tall.it fades out of view before Oi kin get it all in the cam.

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Thankee Emperorjohn for trigerring Moi bit o' disguise.
Oi'll trust thee with tha idea that you put in me 'ed.

That Roid iz zo var down as te be off te radar.
Just what Oi be needin' for a hide away wer I can plan moi empire an' revenge on dem Teladi.
So Oi got me an EQ dock for me Orca.I can set this to have a full supply of e-cells when Oi need 'em.
An' Oi got meslf a Teladi Tradin' station vor all me fighters.

Now Oi've renamed 'em.
I don't think anyone will go all the way to the other end of me supplies station.It stretches out zo var you can't see the other end!
But if anu one does then all they will see is a Recreation centre
an a Planetry observation platform.

So Oi'can build up me fleet in piece .And Oi'll just add a rumour about ships that go missing when they go to var down in elevation.That would account for all my ships that come into the sector,not to be seen again.

[Sp@c3Ch!mp]

I've been reading up on this thread and it is a really great and useful one. Learned a few things so keep it up.
ove the accent by the way.

[TTD]

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[entity7742]

brilliant guide/story/accent so far, but can you tell a Londoner how he can get his stupid employees to stop flying into enemy sectors. It seems they would rather risk dancing with the xenon that being hit in the head with the trading manual of their employer. and I still have to clean up the mess if they get out of it alive.

[TTD]

Since v 2.5 TC. this has been eased off a bit.

UTs are still tricky and I use them only when they have made me enough profit as STs or LTs.

When STs become good enough for Local Trading (LTs),then you can limit their trading area.

Suppose you are 4 sectors from the nearest Hostile sector.
Set the trading radius to no more than 3 sectors.
That way , the LTs will not go to that sector.

Also ,if the Trader is Station based supply and demand vessel,then you can limit the distance in the station parameters at the bottom where you set to trade with races etc.

In Reunion there were patches and scripts for this problem,so check the other threads if you are in Reunion.


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An' iv that dun't work.kick yer poilots back te floight schoil

[Slimblues]

heya ttd , got the game a few days ago been reading your post and its been fantastic, kinda like how my game is playing out at the start , ive just built up enough funds for my first ST so excited lol.

anyways kutgw cant wait for the next post

[Omini]

TTD, if you don't want your images scrumped up - assuming you're not doing that, and I also assume they take a while to upload them, you need to 'Edit' them in MSPaint and change their file extension to jpg. They're initially screenshotted as .bmp, so a typical 114 KB JPEG screenshot is is 6.72 MB as a bmp. Should save you a lot of trouble.

Also just to make sure you're aware (and everyone else who reads it), Teladi Ore Mine Ls are a little under 150K cheaper than the Paranid Ore Mine Ls.

[TTD]

Glad you are all finding this story enjoyable and helping you in your games.

I use zoner to reduce to size compatible with forum rules.(100 kb max etc).
Then use it to convert to e-mail jpg.
The next pic I will test with MSpaint.
May even look at PPaint from Cloanto.I used that a lot in my Amiga days.

[EmperorJon]

Omini, so that's why my screenies take so long to upload! I had thought of changing them to jpeg but I didn't know if they were smaller the a bitmap. Obviously are!

[TTD]

Jpeg is a compression technology like Mpeg ,but for pictures.

Bitmap is high quality,hence higher memory size etc.

If you convert to Jpeg you loose quality of detail which will not return if you convert back again.

Large jpg files often look like oil paintings when posted on a full screen.

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On a different note If you want to set a ship to those elusive items that always get bought before you get there check this link..
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=267845

[microtheraver420]

hey, sorry i disappeared, my internet disappeared for a while. on another note, im moving to Ca in a month or so, so it might be a bit before i can get back into the full swing of the game.

[Mr. Reeves]

california.... a nice place! Full of nude beaches and sexy women!

[TTD]

You've been couped up in that tin box in space too long Mr Reeves.

Time for some shore leave,I think.

But that vision....

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Roight then,back to business...Oi need to move all moi fighter down to moi base ,zo Oi employ moi Chokaro to assist,3 at a toim while Oi use moi Boa,4 foighters at a toim.

Oi'l still be looking out for opportunities though.