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This is the Friend/Foe settings, of how the station sees any faction ships.
3.3
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To help you run your stations, there are a number of reports and graphs available to see how your station is doing
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Assigning Ships
While you can manually transfer wares, or rely on the NPC traders to buy/sell at the your stations, its often best to run your own ships instead and automatic the buying and selling of wares.
3.4 Distributing Goods between your Stations
As well buying and sell wares, you can also move goods between your own stations, and essentially connect multiple stations together via ships rather than relying on NPC stations.
3.5 Reports and Graphs
To help you run your stations, there are a number of reports and graphs available to see how your station is doing
3.5.1 Account Transaction Report
The Account Transaction Report will display all the money coming into and going out of the station account, so you can see where the money might be going to.
3.5.2 Trade Reports
Trade Reports can be found in the Reports Menu
Every trade made by the station will be added to reports depending on the settings.
There is the Global report that contains all the trades, and individual reports, that will contain a separate report for each trade that's made
Automatically use homebased ship reports: When this is set on, then any ships that are homebased to the station will add to the stations reports, instead of to their own reports.
This option allows you to combine all the trading into the same report regardless if its the station, or the ships that made the trade
Enabled Reporting: This option will allow you to enable the various reports:
- No: Disabled, saves no reports
- Global: Only saves to the global report
- Individual: Creates individual reports for each trade
- All: Creates Individual reports, and stores them in the global report
The Global Report option will open the current global report.
All the individual reports will then display in the Reports section, where you can select each one to view or delete.
The Report will show all the wares bought, and their price, as well as all the wares sold.
If its the global report, then each trade will add to the existing report
And individual reports will create a new report for each trade, so will only list the wares bought/sold in a single trade
NOTE: selecting each ware allows you to jump to the ware page in the encyclopedia
The Combined price combines the bought and sold wares together to display the profit of each ware
The options allow you to choose what will actually be included in the report display. This does not remove the wares from the report itself, it only filters what is being displayed.
But the total profit is based on what's currently being displayed rather than the whole report. So you can exclude certain things to see what the profit is like without them included.
The Exclude option will exclude a number of special wares, and the Filter options can filter different types of wares.
Your Empire Trade report works in the same way, but includes everything across your whole empire, so all ships and stations will report to the Empire trade report as well as their own. Even if the reports are disabled for the station, they will still add to your overall empire report.
3.5.3 Graphs
There are a number of graphs available to display
The options under "Compare Stations" allow you to select multiple stations and plot them on a graph together so you can compare things like profit over time.
The Station Net Worth graph displays the worth of the station overtime, this includes the cost of the all the wares currently in the station/ships as well as the amount in the account.
You can select the individual key elements to show/hide each of the data lines. The axis will also adjust based on whats currently showing.
The Adjust Time Axis parameter can adjust how it display the time for the station, either the stations age, where 0 is time the station was created, or the Playing time, which shows with respect to the current ingame time. This allows you to switch between them to compare against different stations.
Most of the items in the Graph show the cumulative values over time. The Profit line however shows the profit per hour and the Total Profit shows the current amount of profit made including the initial cost of the station.