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4. Your stations take into account the buy order price of your Warehouse. If your Warehouse doesn't offer the best price for either buying or selling their wares, than then they can go elsewhere instead of using your warehouse. Pay attention to the System's market!
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- Stations without Command Relays (the big radar dish) can only trade sector-wide. Are trading partners in range?
- Will ships be able to reach the Warehouse safely?
- If you're assigning mining ships, how easily and safety safely can they reach resources?
- With up to ~300 weapons, where would you like to place your fully armed and operational
Death StarWarehouse?
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Other than potentially saving on the number of Mining ships we may need to buy (& replace!), it can allow for placing these well-defended stations in or close to mining zones. Minimising travel time for mining ships can increase their individual mining rates over time, and consequently minimise their exposure to hostiles while travelling (particularly if using Medium Miners). Additionally, compared to Miners mining far from other stations, mining close to a Warehouse means that any combat ships assigned to the Warehouse DO will tend to be closer more of the time.
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