Question: Trade routes

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1: Is there any point in making a chain of trading ports along a path? or is one port on each end of the galaxy fine?

2: along the same line of thought... if every planet has a port, will the drones fly to the furthest port, or the nearest port before calculating income?

3: Is there any point in putting multiple trading ports at both ends of a trade route? Will one port each do the same job?

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
1. The longer the chain, the higher your overall trade income.

2. Not entirely sure. With a port at every planet, though, your chain won't be as long as it could. Consider:

------ A
|
------ B

Where each line is a link on your trade route. The chain from A to B gets shorter if you build trade ports anywhere else.

3. More trade ports per planet == more income at that planet.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
The chain actually counts planets with trade ports only, so you need a tradeport at each planet if you want to make a chain. So if you have A -- B -- C with tradeports at A and C, there's no chain and no bonus income. But if you put one at B, all 3 planets now get a bonus from being along the chain.

You can only have one bonus "chain", and that's whichever route is the longest uninterrupted, so it can shift around a bit as you expand.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Hover the mouse over the credits ticker, and your longest chain will be highlighted.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
The chain actually counts planets with trade ports only, so you need a tradeport at each planet if you want to make a chain. So if you have A -- B -- C with tradeports at A and C, there's no chain and no bonus income. But if you put one at B, all 3 planets now get a bonus from being along the chain.You can only have one bonus "chain", and that's whichever route is the longest uninterrupted, so it can shift around a bit as you expand.
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Going with this line of thought, does it then make more sense to expand out in a straight line (at least in earlier stages of the game), instead of grabbing everything near you, if you plan on doing the trade routes?

Additionally, I don't like that trade ports stack ... just doesn't make sense to me. It would make more sense to be able to upgrade your trade port structures, maybe...

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Going with this line of thought, does it then make more sense to expand out in a straight line (at least in earlier stages of the game), instead of grabbing everything near you, if you plan on doing the trade routes?
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As far as I can tell the chain does not have to start or finish at your home world, as such expand in all directions.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Going with this line of thought, does it then make more sense to expand out in a straight line
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Not necessarily, as planets closest to your homeworld will have a higher allegiance than those father way and therefore higher income, thus higher trade bucks. Also, you probably colonized them earlier so they will have a higher population.

Depending on your race and how many of a certain type of planet you have, you may be better off researching higher population caps as this also increases income (over time)without having to build anything.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
allegiance doesn't affect trade income, and later in the game with a trade chain of 5-6 planets, you can have a trade income of 120-150 creds/sec., so don't count out trade as a viable option.