[Making big money after 1.0 and station changes?]

Harpsichord thanks for the suggestion!

 

Do you use just the factory and have NPC traders deliver the ingredients, or do you supply them yourself with automated trading/production chains?

 

Also how do you sell the accelerators? Do you have ships that sell them to allied research stations, or do you rely on NPC traders?

 

Thanks in advance for your answers. I was thinking about doing this, but from my experience NPC traders cannot be relied upon and if I were to supply and sell everything myself, I would need so many ships that I would hit out of sector simulation limit and ships per player limit on the server where I play.

Sorry for the slow reply.

 

I just have NPC traders deliver the goods, I really can't set up supply chains because the server I play on has a 72 fighter per sector limit. And I rely on NPC traders for sales. You could send them to a research station to get the 10% extra money but you'll still be making  a profit regardless.

[Beta Branch Patch 1.0.1 - Patchnotes]

Fixed an issue where the AI wouldn't attack an alliance's ships

;D

Lasers still bugged

:'(

[Making big money after 1.0 and station changes?]

Save up 200m for a body armor factory with ~70k production per second and then save that money until you can get an accelerator factory with ~130k production/s. I haven't touched my factories in a week and they're both sitting above $5b in profit.

[How exactly do neutral zones work?]

Is it possible to damage your hull, or only shields?

I was able to damage my ship's hull using another alliance ship. For good measure I made sure I wasn't able to do that in a neutral zone that properly played the 'you're entering a neutral zone' message.

[Alliance Home Sectors]

I'd also like to know. I figured it was setting your 'reconstruction site' while in an alliance ship but the game won't let you do that.

[How exactly do neutral zones work?]

I've found some sectors fairly close to 0:0 that are marked on the map as neutral zones but no notification plays when I enter and PvP damage is still active. Is this because all of the AI stations in those sectorss were destroyed or maybe proximity to the core deactivates them?  Full disclosure I am on a MP server, but I asked my server admin and he didn't think any of the enabled mods would be affecting neutral zones

[[1.0] Laser weapons do not receive the bonus DPS from increased number of slots]

Laser turrets don't seem to be scaling their dps by the number of slots. Max DPS for a single slot laser and a 6-slot coaxial appears to be the same at around 3500.