Factory Setup

[TomatoAE]

The factory setup seems a bit complicated..... 10 hours in and I'm not really making much money.

The basics:

• 6 engine parts

• 1 refined metal

• 1 energy

• 1 antimatter cell

Ships:

• 2 Gas

• 2 traders

• 2 ore miners

Logical overview:

• Energy = set to restrict trade

• Ore = set to restrict trade

• Hydrogen = set to restrict trade

• antimater cells = restrict trade

• refined metals = restrict trade

• engin parts = unrestricted

i have 2.5mil in the station. I see my miners bringing in resources, i see my traders selling.... it doesn't appear to be making much money

[Update] - At first i did not have energy/ore/hydrogen restricted so i guess my station was buying them from other vendors. Should be fine now.

Leaving this up in case someone wants info on a decent factory setup. I found that my galaxy was very short on engine parts after the war was activated. This seemed like an effective use of the HQ

[TomatoAE]

By the way, Egosoft should get massive credit for a greatly improved factory system..... so much more potential than x3

[Nexuscrawler]

Just so you know, the Engine Part thing seems to be a bug. The NPCs are producing them, but they don't seem to bring them to the shipyards. When this is fixed, that market should become less profitable.

[TomatoAE]

No issues to me..... about the time they fix it I'll be building a player shipyard and will need engine parts

[Orioniys]

One solar power makes 15000 per/h with 125% efficiency, you can start selling them right away on this stage.

Not sure how profitable engine parts production is, but this looks expensive. Best starter would be a refinery of some sorts they have cheapest parts, and silicon probably the best of the bunch because of it highest value per cargo space. One silicone wafers factory segment plus 3 or 4 miners would give you roughly 800+k per hour.

Full food production chain is ridiculously expensive in comparison.