Director's Quest
Director requirements
To be a Director, you only need to do the following things:
- Have at least 25,000 total ships
- Build a Flagship
- Be under Superior of Director or higher
That's it!
I'm not sure if there is a minimum requirement on personal ships, but if there is, then it will be at least no more than 400 personal ships.
- 25,000 ships total
- Flagship Designer
- Orbital Platform
- Non-conformist votes (20 times)
- Construction Bay
- Hull material
- Fuel supply
- Furnishings
- 1 million yellow discs
- Offer to Build
Building a flagship
Building a flagship is a bit involved and very time consuming. Here are the steps involved with that.
- Design Flagship
- Obtain Soleinium from the Mysterious Vessel
- Have an Orbital Platform
- Be a Non-conformist (vote 20 times in the minority in the Unity voting)
- Pay 5 billion credits for a Construction Bay
- Accumulate 10,000 kt of enectrium
- Accumulate the following flagship furnishings
- VR Rigs (1,000)
- Zero-g Beds (1,000)
- Yellow Disks (1 million)
- Comm Units (10)
Note: Some of the steps can be done in parallel.
Design flagship
A shipwright will offer to design flagship for you on one of the Risk/Reward prompts. You pay her 500,000,000 credits.
Soleinium
You can only obtain the Soleinium as one of the random bonuses from the Mysterious Vessel. The bad part is that this a totally random event. Also, the Vessel only appears between 2 to 6 days, which is roughly double that of the Mysterious Trader in the regular TE. This one can potentially take weeks to obtain.
Orbital Platform/Construction Bay
You'll need to own man-made orbital Colony. I'm not sure if there is a minimum size colony on this. I had the Artificial Moon colony. A list of Colonies is provided on the TE3000 Wiki page Colonies
You'll then later have to pay 5 billion credits to build a Construction Bay for the flagship.
Non-conformist
Vote 20 times in the minority on the Unity vote. The HUD will tell your status when you reach it at 5, 10, 15 and 20. You can start this at any time - you don't have to wait until you get 25,000 ships.
TIP: Turns out if you DON'T VOTE AT ALL on a unity vote, you'll get credit for voting in the minority. I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but take advantage of it while you can. **This has been changed**
Enectrium
Once you buy a Mining Colony, then enectrium will start appearing randomly. I've heard of people buying two mining colonies to increase their Enectrium production. I was able to obtain 10,000 kt of enectrium on a single mining colony - the 4 billion Diamond-core Gas Giant Colony.
A list of Colonies is provided on the TE3000 Wiki page Colonies
Flagship furnishings
- VR Rigs (1,000)
- Zero-g Beds (1,000)
- Yellow Disks (1 million)
- Comm Units (10)
You can only obtain the flagship furnishings as random events when buying ships. You probably have some of the furnishings already. Since the furnishings appear randomly, you have to keep buying ships until you get everything. You end up buying LOTS of ships. The Yellow Disks and Comm Units were the hardest to get.
TIP: You can BUY and SELL ships at the same time, to increase the frequency of buying ships. This will cost you some credits, but it does speed up the process since you can do this at each opportunity a ship comes up for sale. Nevertheless, expect to spend at least a week to obtain all the furnishings.
Your superior's rank
To be promoted to Director, your Superior has to be of rank of Director or higher. If your superior is a Captain, you will be blocked from being promoted to Director. Which makes sense, since a Director shouldn't be under a lower rank like Captain. So if your Superior is a Captain, what do you do? You either will have to wait until your Superior get promoted to Director, or move to someone else of Director or higher. You can move by accepting a bribe from a Director, or manually move yourself to another Director, or have your Superior prune you so you can then move to another Director.
The last step to promotion
After you meet all the criteria, the last prompt in the HUD will be to send 1 million yellow disks. You may have to wait some hours for this. I think the HUD does a Director status check about every 6 hours. Clicking YES to the 1 million yellow disks will then get you promoted to Director.