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- A credit source of approx. 500,000 credits per hour
- 3-16 factories (Space Fuel Distilleries need the fewest factories)(missile factories are the most reliable income)
- 2-5 Universal Trader TS/TS+ ships
- Stock Market Manipulation
- A Self Sufficient Complex with the minimal requirements
- 1 XL Solar Power Plant (Boron cheapest)
- 1 M Solar Power Plant (Boron cheapest)(can be larger dependent on size of additional complex elements)
- 3 L Crystal Fabs (Race of Choice)
- 5 Bio producing farms (Race of Choice)
- 5 Food Processing factories (Race of Choice)
- N Silicon Mine L (Teladi cheapest)(enough for 841 Silicon Wafers/h)(6x with a quality of 18 or 3x with a quality of 37 suffice)
- 1 Ore Mine L with a quality of >2 (Teladi cheapest)
- 1 Teladianium Foundry M
- 1 Wheat Farm M
- 1 Rimes Fact M (can be hard to obtain if hostile to the Argon)
- 1 Chelt Space Aquarium M
- 1 Rastar Refinery M
- 1 Quantum Tube Fab (Race of Choice)
- 4 Chip Plant Plants (Race of Choice)
- 1 Computer Plant (Race of Choice)
- A TS with Commodity Logistics Software MK1 and a Jumpdrive
A Split Caiman is recommended due to fast speed
Use the self sufficient supply complex as a supplier and the Player Headquarters as a consumer and to leave at least 10% intermediate resources at the supplier
Set the Player Headquarters Dockware Manager to the following limits (+1 full trip of wares over the amount needed to build the most expensive ship):PHQ Type Energy Cells Teladiunium Cloth Rimes Rastar Oil Ore Silicon Wafers Crystals Quantum Tubes Microchips Computer Components Terran 242,151 42,035 9,938 34,628 84,008 138,326 14,876 17345 14876 7469 Commonwealth 192,505 34,280 8,904 28,424 67,472 110,408 12,808 14760 12808 6952
Ship Production Equipping New Ships (assuming mass production and weapon preference):
- 1 Shield Production Facility 1GJ (no frigate is built in less than 19 hours which equates to 11 shields worth of production)
- 4 Shield Production Facility 1MJ (Valkyrie)
- 2 Shield Production Facility 200MJ (Katana)
- 4 Shield Production Facility 25MJ (Solano)
- 2 Shield Production Facility 2GJ (Xenon J)
- 8 Shield Production Facility 5MJ (Enhanced Pericles) (3 for Sabre as the Enhanced Pericles is not available for all game starts)
- 3 Impulse Ray Emitter Forge (Enhanced Pericles)(Xenon N is the runner up)
- 28 Flak Artillery Array Forge (Xenon J)(3 is enough for all other capital ships)
- 4 14 Ion Shard Railgun Forge (Xenon J)(4 is enough for Dragon/P)
- 18 Phased Repeater Gun Forge (Pirate Buzzard Vanguard)
- 18 Photon Pulse Cannon Forge (Xenon J)(9 is enough for Xenon K)
- 24 Pulsed Beam Emitter Forge (Pirate Scorpion)
- 3 Starburst 4 Starburst Shockwave Cannon Forge (Xenon KOsaka/Tyr)
- 3 Point Singularity Projector Forge (all equipping ships take forever to build while Xenon capital ships can mount the superior PPC)
- 3 Cluster 9 Cluster Flak Array Forge (Xenon J)(3 suffice for the Astraeus Hauler)
- 3 Incendiary Bomb Launcher Forge (Tiger/Shrike/Q)
- 22 Ion Disruptor Forge (Mako)
- 20 Particle Accelerator Cannon Forge (Enhanced Pericles)(Xenon N is the runner up)
- 3 Phased Shockwave Generator Forge (Paranid M7s)
- 5 Plasma Burst Generator Forge (Nova)
- 173 EM Plasma Cannon Forge (Valkyrie)
- 15 High Energy Plasma Cannon Forge (Pirate Scorpion)
- 92 Fragmentation Bomb Launcher Forge (Enhanced Pericles)
- 12 Matter/Antimatter Launcher Forge (Xenon J)
- 38 Mass Driver Forge (Drone Hauler)
- 17 Concussion Impulse Generator Forge (Xenon J)
- 6 Energy Bolt Chaingun Forge (Nova)(if the player manipulates the stock market using Energy Bolt Chainguns then there will be far more factories)
- 10 Gauss Cannon Forge (Xenon K)
As can be seen from this list the Valkyrie, Enhanced Pericles and Xenon J are very weapon and shield hungry ships