Just an underhand tactic I worked out for those of you who like underhanded buisness practices...
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Those competitors hogging all the profits? - A got a juicy raquet being ruined by some selfish chip plant owner? Or simply feel like being the ultimate Hi-Tech mogul, in an oversubscribed economy?
For the price of a mere 5, unshielded, untweaked M5's, you can put your buisness competitors 6ft under. Simply find those annoying rival stations, and plug their docking claw full of M5's (5 should do it), with your hogging the spots there isn't a hope in hell they're going to get any more trade.
Disclaimer: Cannot guarantee this works out of sector, cannot be held responsible for revenge attacks, corperate espionage, acts of god or going to hell in response to using the above technique.
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I just love running hi-tech factories, but there's too many hi-tech factories in competition, til I realised that in many instance there's only 1 or 2 competitors in a several sector region, and if I stuff their docking claw full, hey presto, I get all the trade
Well, that sort of works in your favour, as long as you don't spend much time in-sector, it means the freighters will be busy hanging around the plugged station, instead of nicking your juicy UT buisness deals
(Not that I actually own any UT's, but still, point stands, a slower economy is one where you can buy lower and sell higher)
Ryuujin wrote:Just an underhand tactic I worked out for those of you who like underhanded buisness practices...
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Picket Lines
Those competitors hogging all the profits? - A got a juicy raquet being ruined by some selfish chip plant owner? Or simply feel like being the ultimate Hi-Tech mogul, in an oversubscribed economy?
For the price of a mere 5, unshielded, untweaked M5's, you can put your buisness competitors 6ft under. Simply find those annoying rival stations, and plug their docking claw full of M5's (5 should do it), with your hogging the spots there isn't a hope in hell they're going to get any more trade.
Disclaimer: Cannot guarantee this works out of sector, cannot be held responsible for revenge attacks, corperate espionage, acts of god or going to hell in response to using the above technique.
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I just love running hi-tech factories, but there's too many hi-tech factories in competition, til I realised that in many instance there's only 1 or 2 competitors in a several sector region, and if I stuff their docking claw full, hey presto, I get all the trade
Great idea, although I have a feeling you'll end up in X Hell* if you carry on like that.
*X Hell being the resting place of Bernd's tortured soul, (tortured for patch and game info obviously) X2: The Return, cockpits, mobile mining, assassination missions and Mi Ton. Heehee
This is what I do for cheap shields. I load up some TS's with the resources needed for the station. Then I plug up the docking bays with 'em. When the station resources get low, I sell my goods to the station. By the time we're both out of resources, the shields are selling dirt cheap.
And after hundreds of years of evolution, the common housefly still doesn't know that the big, solid, clear thing is a window . . .
i usually dock ships slower than what i'm in at the time when i'm exploring at stations but they get bumped out a lot of the time.
that would be ammusing if this exploitish type action was made illegal in a patch. this seems more like a bug that you can just plug up stations and hault trading. *shrugs* oh well.
esd wrote:Of course, there'll be a huge queue of transports waiting to dock. Could get messy.
And as soon as one of your M5's undocks, they're in, even if you order your ship to dock again - it'll just go into a holding pattern
I duuno. When I just sit in a busy station while doing other errands around the house, I see TS ships blowing up all the time trying to dock. Is this done on purpose, or is it poor AI piloting code? At any rate, if you have 20 of these buggars hanging around, they'd probably just all smash into each other. If not, maybe they'd draw pirates?
