Favorite factory?!!!!!

[dirtytrader]

I have checked all previous posts and have read all the advice here on this site and have done a reasonable amount of factory setup in past games. This is my third attempt at this damn addictive game (girlfriend hates the amount of time I am devoting to this!!!!!! ) and I have never really had a great factory that makes loads of cash.

I remember about 3 years ago having X-BTF and making loads on a missle fab somewhere in Teladi space but that is a dim a distant memory.

I currently only have a wheat farm in Rolks Drift. It makes a reasonable profit but saying that it has cost me alot more than it has given back. It - in a word - is pathetic!

I can capture just about any ship (can't we all) but factories is where the real money is - surely!!

[pjknibbs]

I have checked all previous posts and have read all the advice here on this site and have done a reasonable amount of factory setup in past games. This is my third attempt at this damn addictive game (girlfriend hates the amount of time I am devoting to this!!!!!! ) and I have never really had a great factory that makes loads of cash.

I remember about 3 years ago having X-BTF and making loads on a missle fab somewhere in Teladi space but that is a dim a distant memory.

I currently only have a wheat farm in Rolks Drift. It makes a reasonable profit but saying that it has cost me alot more than it has given back. It - in a word - is pathetic!

I can capture just about any ship (can't we all) but factories is where the real money is - surely!!

It's a lot harder to make money in X-T using factories than it was in X-BTF. The absolute maximum you'll ever make from a factory is around 70 thousand credits per game hour, and you'll only get that from one of the factories which needs 3 resources--a simple thing like the wheat farm will only produce about 15-20k over the same period. The real money comes when you have a LOT of factories all working together, but that won't happen until you reach a good distance into the game.

[Gandalf The White]

Hi. Crystal Fabs, GIRE laser Forges, 1MW shield factories, Q Tube factories make a killing. But make sure you have all supporting factories. If you place in Argon Space, spacifically, Ringo Moon, Argon Prime and The Wall, then you need not worry about cheep EC's. Because in Cloudbase Southwest and The Wall is an abundence of EC's at cheepest price.

Also, put a Weapon Conponent factory in Ore Belt. Mine currently has about 30000000 CR in it. But that mainly, is because I forgot to empty some cash out of it at my last mas fighter purchasing. Also, Laser Tower factories and Nav Sat factories make a very good profit as well.

It's all about finding exploitable parts of the econamy. Once you have done that, exploit them well and protect yourself against Pirates.

[Al]

I have lots of factories in my current game and to be fair, as long as they are placed where the demand is they all make money. The high tec fabs (with your own support fabs) will make the most money.

Al

[Gandalf The White]

Yes Al that's very true. The high tech factories always make the best credits. But they are expencive to set up. But the outlay is more than worth it.

[Rapier]

It's a lot harder to make money in X-T using factories than it was in X-BTF. The absolute maximum you'll ever make from a factory is around 70 thousand credits per game hour, and you'll only get that from one of the factories which needs 3 resources--a simple thing like the wheat farm will only produce about 15-20k over the same period. The real money comes when you have a LOT of factories all working together, but that won't happen until you reach a good distance into the game.

Admit it, you've been reading UTOPIA in bed, haven't you?

[monkman]

Spose you've already heard that crossing food factories amongst races produces a lot of cash and it is relatively cheap to set up with a good quick profit. E.g Teladianium foundry in Split space does well e.t.c
Also have crystal fab in either the wall or queens space somwere like that were there are lots of spp's! They do very well. After that you can stop building monopolies like destroying Quantum tube fabs in the main original split sectors then building 1 in family pride. Does very very well!


Hope this helps

Monkman

[pjknibbs]

Admit it, you've been reading UTOPIA in bed, haven't you?

Didn't even know it existed, mate--all my comments are made using my own calculations and my own experience.

[Mudkest]

-The absolute maximum you'll ever make from a factory is around 70 thousand credits per game hour-

teladi mosquito fab, buy at min and sell at max, will get you


408*2-(6*6 + 44*4 + 89) * 3600/24= 77250 per hour haven't found a fac that'll make more cash then that(but feel free to proof me wrong )

[pjknibbs]

-The absolute maximum you'll ever make from a factory is around 70 thousand credits per game hour-

teladi mosquito fab, buy at min and sell at max, will get you


408*2-(6*6 + 44*4 + 89) * 3600/24= 77250 per hour haven't found a fac that'll make more cash then that(but feel free to proof me wrong )

Is 77250 not "around 70 thousand" in your universe, then?

[Stealth]

Actually, that's more like 'around 80000'

[Rapier]

-408*2-(6*6 + 44*4 + 89) * 3600/24= 77250 per hour haven't found a fac that'll make more cash then that(but feel free to proof me wrong )

IIRC the Argon version makes more money. At the very least there is a ready made market and all the stock you need in or near Omecron Lyrae.

[Mudkest]

IIRC the Argon version makes more money. At the very least there is a ready made market and all the stock you need in or near Omecron Lyrae.

no it won't, teladi sunoil at minprice is cheaper then argon meatstakes at minprice, and you need the same ammounts of them(paranid foodstuff is least expensive at minprice if you compare ammounts, and boron most.)

And Pj, quote me on where I disagreed with you (but if you read the post carefully you'll see i didn't directly support you either)

[Rapier]

no it won't, teladi sunoil at minprice is cheaper then argon meatstakes at minprice, and you need the same ammounts of them(paranid foodstuff is least expensive at minprice if you compare ammounts, and boron most.)

You could well be right, but I defy you to find anywhere in Teladi space where there is enough Nostrop to take advantage of that fact.

[Al]

Well like all good X-ers, if its not there then you build the fabs so that it is

al

[Rapier]

Well like all good X-ers, if its not there then you build the fabs so that it is

al

But then you realise that you make more profit on the Meatsteaks than the Nostrop, so it balances out.

[silentWitness]

I always had a thing for food factories...

Ruff'in Scruff'in
Cahoona's are us

being my main subsiduarys...

but I also have a biogas operation situated in new teladi space which I'm pretty happy with...

I make a killing on most stuff because I travel half the galaxy to bring it there or I let the Xenon take away the competition.