 TEC
Trade Port
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Trade Ports allow your civilization to conduct trade between the various planets in the system, which earns the player credits.
Overview[]
Trade ports give your empire a constant flow of credits, the galaxy's standard currency. You can optimize trade growth by creating trade routes. Multiple trade ports can be built on a planet that will also increase the income from that particular planet's trade. The TEC can upgrade their trade ports income rate through research. All TEC factions can research the Civilian Ship Safety Act to improve the hulls of their Trade Ships. TEC Loyalist can improve their trade income by 25% if there are enemies present in the gravity well by researching War Measures Act. The TEC can also upgrade the Trade Pact which will increase their extractors income and anyone else who made the pact with them.
The Argonev Starbase can be upgraded to function as a Trade Port as well. The TEC are also the only race that can upgrade the logistics capacity of planets with Development Mandate, allowing the TEC to place trade ports on Dead Asteroids and Pirate Bases.
Income[]
The base income rate for a trade port is 1 credit per second. 0.075 credits per second are added to the income for each of your trade ports for each jump in the longest trade route you have. For example, if you have a continuous trade route 4 jumps long, you would earn 1.3 credits per second at each of your ports. Multiple ports at a planet DO stack. You receive income for each of them. However, it is better to spread your ports out, so you expand the length of your longest trade route and boost your income more.
Trade depots send out trade ships to do their work. If a trade ship is destroyed, credits are awarded to the destroying player and the income of the depot goes down until it is replaced in 25 seconds.
In the Entrenchment micro-expansion, Starbases can function as a Trade Port with an upgrade, Trade Facilities for the Argonev Star Base, Merchant Docks for the Transcencia Star Base, and Merchant Cargo Bays for the Orkulus Star Base.
Trade Routes[]
An established Trade Route.
This is an example of how Trade Routes do not work.
Trade Routes were explained a little bit above. But to go into more detail a Trade Route is established after you place down two trade ports on two adjacent worlds. The more you continue this in a line the more Credits you will recieve per trade port. As breaking the chain is not optimal and can actually lose you income.
Another thing to note is that Trade Routes do not work in triangles. So looking at the image to the bottom left.. You can have a trade port on Planet A and it will go to planet B and any adjacent planets that are off in the distance. However, you cannot have trade ports going from Planet A to Planet C to Planet B.