Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Rilder]

Cool with me rilder.

By the way, iv been meaning to tell you, you kick ass.

O.o

We'll need to start getting eludium soon I think though.

[Sowelu]

I still don't have access on the SD forum (name is Sowelu).

I found something shiny you'll be interested in, and have an administrative request, so yeah.

[Paul]

Sorry about that Sowelu, I could have sworn I had already given you access.

I haven't played much today (just logged in a few mins this morning) due to some frustration with the lag. I'll be playing more soon, just kinda sick of only being able to move my character 10 mins out of every hour (which isn't normal BTW, just seems to be happening lately - although im not sure if its still like that now, it was just like that this morning when I logged in and the last few days before that).

[Sowelu]

So I'm logged in and I'm looking at this page:  http://s4.zetaboards.com/Starborn_Dominion/index/

I see "Announcements & News", and "General Discussion", and nothing else.  I've tried logging out & in again.  There are no collapsed sections.  That's all I can see.  Neither has any meaningful discussion.  Should I have more available?  How do I get there?

[Paul]

Huh, there should be an empire discussion.

Dragonshardz has it set to require being in the "Citizen" group and I moved you in that group but if it still isn't letting you see it I'm at a loss. Try logging out and back in maybe?

[Sowelu]

Huh, there should be an empire discussion.

Dragonshardz has it set to require being in the "Citizen" group and I moved you in that group but if it still isn't letting you see it I'm at a loss. Try logging out and back in maybe?

I've tried logging out & in again.

Yeah, still isn't letting me see it.  It does correctly state on my profile that I'm a citizen, at least.  Maybe it isn't actually visible to citizens, and only to admins?

[QuakeIV]

Cool with me rilder.

By the way, iv been meaning to tell you, you kick ass.

O.o

We'll need to start getting eludium soon I think though.

Well, what I mean by that, is I am quite pleased with the development of the habitable world.

[QuakeIV]

Also, our systems best eludium is on Alpha IIIa, its Q225.

[dragonshardz]

Sowelu, you are int he Citizens group. I'll check permission sets - permission sets aren't tied to groups.

Also, the only person who does not currently have access is "Footman", as he's never logged on and has no posts. Yay spy?

[Sowelu]

Sowelu, you are int he Citizens group. I'll check permission sets - permission sets aren't tied to groups.

I have access now.  Thanks!

[Yalishandaw]

So, I'm still in the shell empire(largely my fault due to being el noob), and getting a bit tired of that little rock.  I've also never played this game before.  I started a new empire with an alt to get the hang of things, and am now wondering if

I should just use the alt for now to learn citybuilding and other basics before I join youse guys

OR

if I should continue to yammer on the recruitment channel from time to time with my main character due to the Starborn Dominium having a massive shortage of chumps/chumpettes.

[Akura]

Well, if SD doesn't take you, I could ...
I need people anyway. It's getting too big to manage everything by myself.

[Sizik]

I'd say use the alt. Running your own empire is the best way to learn the game.

[Paul]

Sorry about that Yalishandaw, I've not been very active the last couple days because of getting a bit sick of the lag and taking a break from the game.

I'm back on now, but I guess you're probably not. We're probably in diff time zones, that would explain why we keep missing eachother

[Sowelu]

I'd appreciate some advice on making a trade profit.  There's a couple of issues giving me trouble:
1) If a colony has any of what you want to sell, they always seem to pay less than it costs to buy it anywhere.
2) Goods just plain don't exit the market.

To elaborate on 1...  So I produce some eludium, snag oh three hundred units and take them to a convenient habitable world in another system that doesn't produce it themselves.  I sell it for say 800c/unit, twice what I bought it for!  Cool!  I produce it by the bucketload so I go back with another run and...suddenly the market has crashed.  Now they pay more like 300c, which is less than what I buy it for.  Gotta find a new planet to unload it.  It doesn't take long before you run out of markets.

And that's because...any system with a self-sufficient economy, doesn't want to import ANYTHING.  It seems like the only way to make any cash is to intentionally starve your systems.  Warehouses will fill up and never empty.  Even if you make two systems that are each half of a full economy, they will eventually fill each other up.  NOTHING exits the economy, except in two ways:
- Life support: Food, air, fuel.  And these are all pretty cheap.  Honestly they don't get used up very fast either.
- Ship components, if people build and subsequently blow up their ships.

And there's a big problem here.  Let's say you want to keep supplying a central planet from some outlying ones.  Every trip you make, you're going to lose money!  If you want to be nice and support your capital, you are going to go broke.  You need supplimental income...and I can't figure out a way to do that.

Any advice on building up a personal fortune?  At this rate, it'll take me ages to even get a million credits (unless I sit around and manually build power armor all day).