Once I came “home” from the adventure in the war sectors, My traders had made enough money for me to consider a second factory complex. I think some more farms wouldn’t hurt, even though the market clos eto Home of light is probably saturated. After looking around for a bit, I decide to build it in Queen’s space. There are some stations in the surrounding secotrs demanding wheat and the supply of energy cells is also good. There is one problem though. The closest place to buy the farms is Argon prime, so I want to buy at least 3 of them. I only have 1.3 million at the moment and don’t wnat to spend it all, so what I decide to do, is buying the 3 farms now, and hope to have enough money to buy the construction kits to connect them when the supply mammoth arrives at Kingdom’s end., Said and done.
Now I run into the next problem. When the transport arrives at Kingdom’s end shipard, I realize I forgot to check my faction with the Borons. I’m not allowed to buy the complex construction kit there. What I decide to do is to put up one farm in queen’s space, then send the transport back to Argon prime and buy the construction kits. This project ends up taking me at least an hour.
While at argon Prime for the second time, I’ve gathered enough money to buy 2 extra Discoverers to start training CAG pilots. I also have more then enough time to complete some missions while waiting for the slow transport tro complete these runs. Now I make use of the life support I baught, making some money on transporting people.
Just as I got the new complex up and running with 1 freighter on CAG duty and another another filling it up with energy cells, something bad happens. My first complex in home of light, currnetly only has a Mercury working for it, since I brought the other one to the second complex. One high level cag pilot is enough to keep that station going for now. The Mercury, however decides that the recently discovered sector of Omicron Lyren, or one of the surrounding sectors, is paying very well for wheat. However, the trader doesn’t seem to realize there’s a war going on in that sector and as expected, it is attacked and destroyed before I can do anothing about it. Luckily I have just bought a new ship, intended for universe trading. That one will now have to work for the station instead.
Eventually, both my stations start making money and I can start to add more ships. A few missions adding a few 100K each as well as some trading on the Argon and Teladi stock exchange doesn’t hurt either. I build a silicon mine in Three worlds and with my Discoverer training CAG pilots I’m able to start making profit from that one pretty fast.
My ship roster now looks like this:
Aute(ST) = Sector trader, Auto(UT) = Universe trader, ST# belongs to one of my stations, PR is used for ships while they gahter equipment.