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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Ships sell automatically, your haulers are popular, someone will buy it as fast as it built, but profit is slightly random

[Armok]

> try to develop a more spacious hull

[RAM]

1: 9 Llama haulers
2: Improved automation
3: Hire mad scientists(1), Lead scientist(1), scientists(3), engineers(3), and security staff, umm, if two people can run a space-dock then I suppose three should be able to guard it...

[NRDL]

9 llama haulers
Design better hull and fuel
Hire 2 engineers, 1 spy, 1 scientist, and one security team ( or mercenaries, whichever you prefer ) to defend from pirate attacks. 

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Spoiler: Balance (click to show/hide)

5500 credits
no outstanding loans

Spoiler: Staff (click to show/hide)

Manager - Bronto "Not voting" Nigel (Management 1)
Engineer - Laisa Nigel (generic engineering 1, rocket engineering 1 )

Spoiler: Manufacturing facilities (click to show/hide)

10 size 1 spacedocks
3 assembly lines (Hull A18) - production effectiveness 3.1
3 assembly lines (Engine RE4)  - production effectiveness 3.1

Spoiler: Known modules (click to show/hide)

Hulls
A18 (Basic steel hull, your company produced those as long as you remember yourself. Cheap, heavy, durable)
- Production cost: 1 assembly line.
- weight 1300 kg
 
Engines
RE4 (pretty powerful liquid fuel rocket engine. It's an ancient and explosive technology, but it's cheap and durable):
- Production cost: 1 assembly line.
- Hulls required: 1
- Max acceleration: 10G per tonne
- fuel: 1200 seconds at full power
- weight: 800kg (full), 100 kg (empty)

Spoiler: Models (click to show/hide)

 
Llama hauler (It's ugly, it doesn't have cargo space, it's not comfortable and it's blowing up easily. But it works fine for hauling
- Hull A18
- Engine RE4

Spoiler: R&D (click to show/hide)

Company experience:
Liquid fuel rocket engines 3

Current projects
--More spacious hull (60% progress)
-  Laisa Nigel

--More powerful engines (25% progress)
- Laisa Nigel

It was a nice month, a caravan from the Imperial Uranium Mining Company baught all 9 haulers and you got a nice 4500 profit.

Your sister has started 2 research projects, they are  pretty simple and she shall finish it soon

Also you decided that you need more staff, unfortunately you didn't found any scientist within your financial reach, spies are hard to find and you don't really need security team. Local police is more than enough, pirates aren't nearly strong enough to attack a planet. But you did found three interesting engineers:

Lomos Tucker is the first candidate. This 60 year old man has a great experience in a small arms industry, but nearly zero knowledge about spaceships. He asks for 2500 credits monthly . ( Skills: firearms 2, lasers 1, explosives 1)

Tavian Lexom is the second. He lost an arm after his ship was destroyed, but he is an experienced combat pilot and can give good advices. He asks for 1200 credits monthly (skills: ergonomics 2, targeting 1, maneuverability 1, stealth 1)

Liva Tux is the third. She is probably the best candidate, This girl worked in engine department for imperial military spacedock, unfortunately this made her overspecialized she knows little about another parts of the ships.  She asks for 4000 credits monthly(ion engines 2, rocket engines 1)



\\\BTW, I'll not allow research that increase research, and research that increase production. Engineers work only on ship modules There are different methods to improve research\production

[Comp112]

I say we hire Liva and Tavian, both would be immediately useful.

Also, build/sell more ships, going to need the cash.

[areyoua]

We'd be running a deficit, and there's no guarantee that we'll get more money from research, but you've got to take some risk to get some reward.

Hire Liva and Tavian

[Armok]

Tavian.

[Geen]

Livia and Tavian

[Roboboy33]

Livia and Tavian

[stabbymcstabstab]

Tavain we barely afford both of them how are we suppose to make enough money to afford both of them? Hualers don't make enough money to cover the cost.

[Toaster]

While I agree Liva's skills are the most useful, it is a shame she overlaps our sister's skills.    Oh well- hire her see my post below instead.

And you chaps who want to deficit spend should go get government jobs.

[RAM]

Tavian, definitely. We start making things with pilots in mind now and we won't need to rewire things later. And it is easy to over-look a lot of things that would be common-sense to an experienced pilot. Not to mention that it would be greedy charitable to hire someone who is no longer equipped for their chosen profession...

1: 9 llama haulers
2: Lighter Hull
3: Hire Tavian, look for cheap deals on assembly-lines.

[Comp112]

I read the initial post wrong, I added an extra 0 by mistake.

Either or for me

[Toaster]

Well, let's look at the skills we have and the skills we don't.

Have:

generic engineering 1:  Bigger hulls.  No-brainer here.
rocket engineering 1:  More powerful engines.  Nice to have.

Have nots:

Tucker:

firearms 2, lasers 1, explosives 1:  I'm just going to lump these.  All weapon techs.  Great when we start making fighters, but right now, we're making freighters.  Let's stick with what we know until we can build a good fighter, not some tin can with a pop gun.

Tavian Lexom:
ergonomics 2:  This is good when we want to make higher-class vessels, possibly even passenger liners.  Not 100% what we need, but useful nonetheless.
targeting 1:  Weapons tech.  See above, except we'd need weapons before this was useful.
maneuverability 1:  This is 90% a fighter tech, but it'd be useful on high-priority courier ships that *must get through*.  Not useful yet.
stealth 1:  See above, really.  Unless we hear of a market for stealth freighters, this isn't what we need.

Liva Tux:
rocket engines 1:  Duplicate.  Would let us research this class engine faster, except...
ion engines 2:  A higher class of engine.  Now this is useful.  But do we need it yet?


I see three options.

Option 1:  Hire Liva Tux.  After they finish the next rocket engine tech, have her research Ion Engines exclusively, and have Sister research hulls exclusively.  When we have a working ion engine, switch the production line over and never look back.

Option 2:  Hire none of them!  Keep looking for other engineers with freighter-type skills.

Option 3:  Hire Lomos Tucker and start making fighters.  Probably a bad option before we get more assembly lines.


I vote for option 2 (hire nobody), using our cash to get more dock space.