[AE] Basic Questions ...

[Timbuk2]

A thread for all the basics, to help nubbins get up and running ...

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Umm ... how do you start a trade route when someone has a trade slot available?

[Flixy]

Find the coordinates of the base you want to trade with, copy it. Go to your base page, go to the tape 'Trade route', enter the coordinates, click on calculate profits. You will see the costs, and profits of the proposed trade route. If you like it, click send, and wait for the other to accept.

[wiggin]

Do outpost ships need to be escorted?

[Flixy]

I think they cannot be attacked until you are level 10 - but I am not 100% certain. Better safe than sorry, I guess, if you have anything available?

[wiggin]

Well, I still haven't finished Warp Drive yet or some of those hella expensive shipyards, so it's a moot point right now. But I was curious. Wraithy, did you use a corvette escort?

[Wraith]

Do outpost ships need to be escorted?

Not if you're beneath level 10.

Well, I still haven't finished Warp Drive yet or some of those hella expensive shipyards, so it's a moot point right now. But I was curious. Wraithy, did you use a corvette escort?

I sent them alone, but I had whichever corvette I had scouting waiting for them at the end.

[Flixy]

I feel so close, but it will be 3-4 hours at least to get all the requirements.. shipyards are expensive

[Loki]

I'm about 7 hours away. I'm going to destroy Random's entire galaxy for doing this to me.

[LittleFuzzy]

I'm about 7 hours away. I'm going to destroy Random's entire galaxy for doing this to me.

Have the find the little fucker first but since he hit Timbuk as well I think we're all agreed that he needs to suffer.

[Loki]

I'm going to find the planet of his ancestors and nuke it.

Everyone should have a look in their solar system and see if this guy is in it. Ditto for anyone scouting other systems.

[Flixy]

Maybe build a death star, just for the occasion? Bring him along and blow up is ancestor's world. Maybe not very original, but effective.

[Loki]

Minx, why do you only have 9 economy but 121 tech?

[Aimless]

That's a trick question, I have 10 economy I was lost and turned my burgeoning utopia into a communist joke

[Echovirus]

Have the find the little fucker first but since he hit Timbuk as well I think we're all agreed that he needs to suffer.

Bitter was hit by Random this morning. This guy is really getting around.

[Aimless]

What's the rest of his guild up to?

[Aimless]

1. Can it make sense to fatten up weaker/unattached players with trade before occupying them or gobbling them up?

2. Is it possible to occupy a guild-mate's planet?

[LittleFuzzy]

1. Can it make sense to fatten up weaker/unattached players with trade before occupying them or gobbling them up?

2. Is it possible to occupy a guild-mate's planet?

There was something in the rules about occupation-trading. . .

[Flixy]

So, turns out if you attack a planet but don't have a command center, not only do you not occupy it.. you don't even raid it, and get zero money.

[Aimless]

So, turns out if you attack a planet but don't have a command center, not only do you not occupy it.. you don't even raid it, and get zero money.

Have you truly learned nothing from the Occupy movement?

[Loki]

Is having a recycler at a planet sufficient to get the debris? Or do I have to do something?

[Flixy]

That's enough. Just place it there, and it collects 10/hour, on the 30 minute mark

[Loki]

I had recyclers over them at the top of the hour, and the amount of debris hasn't gone down...

Or do they recycle only at x:30 of every hour? I assumed it was every 30 minutes.

[Flixy]

Only at x.30 I think.

[RandBlade]

Only at x:30 definitely.