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MV Sightings

2009-08-18T03:15:52Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Vessel sightings */

=== Navigation ===

[[Ranks]]

[[Information]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Colonies]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

===Vessel sightings===
* 03/11/09 11:19 AM SLT
* 03/15/09 07.39 PM SLT
* 03/18/09 01:19 PM SLT
* 03/21/09 08:55 AM SLT
* 03/24/09 11:18 PM SLT
* 03/29/09 05:51 PM SLT - Jan 3756
* 04/04/09 07:30 AM SLT - Aug 3971
* 04/08/09 11:26 PM SLT - Dec 3151
* 04/11/09 05:24 AM SLT - Nov 3238
* 04/13/09 11:12 PM SLT - Feb 3306
* 04/16/09 03:37 AM SLT - Mar 3429
* 04/19/09 07.34 AM SLT - Jun 3551
* 04/22/09 04:23 PM SLT - Jun 3681
* 04/26/09 02:13 AM SLT - Feb 3813
* 04/27/09 12:40 PM SLT - Jul 3868
* 04/30/09 05:02 AM SLT - Jan 3971
* 05/03/09 04:22 PM SLT - Dec 3105
* 05/04/09 11:23 AM SLT - Nov 3136
* 05/06/09 02:02 AM SLT - Oct 3205
* 05/09/09 03:55 AM SLT - Aug 3316
* 05/12/09 12:51 PM SLT - Oct 3446
* 05/13/09 09:25 PM SLT - Feb 3499
* 05/17/09 05:39 AM SLT - Feb 3628
* 05/18/09 07:42 AM SLT - Dec 3669
* 05/20/09 09:10 PM SLT - Sep 3768
* 05/24/09 02:44 PM SLT - Jul 3912
* 05/26/09 03:45 PM SLT - Mar 3991
* 05/30/09 10:12 AM SLT - Apr 3136
* 06/02/09 11:58 AM SLT - Aug 3254 - Alliance of Hera
* 06/05/09 08:00 PM SLT - Sep 3382 - Alliance of Hera
* 06/09/09 10:02 AM SLT - Aug 3520 - Alliance of Hera
* 06/12/09 03:01 PM SLT - Nov 3643 - Alliance of Hera
* 06/16/09 12:10 AM SLT - Oct 3773 - Alliance of Hera
* 06/19/09 04:07 AM SLT - Jun 3895 - Federation Alliance
* 06/19/09 05:45 AM SLT - Feb 3898 - Alliance of Hera
* 06/22/09 12:?? PM SLT - Aug 3023 - Alliance of Hera
* 07/02/09 06:58 PM SLT - Aug 3419 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/06/09 02:18 PM SLT - Jun 3565 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/10/09 01:37 AM SLT - Oct 3698 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/13/09 08:02 PM SLT - May 3843 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/16/09 01:16 PM SLT - Nov 3948 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/19/09 06:38 PM SLT - Jul 3071 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/23/09 08:05 AM SLT - Apr 3208 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/26/09 01:08 PM SLT - May 3331 - Cosmic Paradise
* 07/29/09 09:30 PM SLT - Apr 3460 - Cosmic Paradise
* 08/01/09 03:56 PM SLT - Nov 3565 - Cosmic Paradise
* 08/04/09 12:20 PM SLT - Jan 3675 - Cosmic Paradise
* 08/07/09 10:30 PM SLT - Mar 3806 - Cosmic Paradise
* 08/11/09 12:49 PM SLT - Nov 3943 - Cosmic Paradise
* 08/14/09 12:05 PM SLT - Jun 3057 - Cosmic Paradise
* 08/17/09 07:20 PM SLT - Nov 3183 - Cosmic Paradise

[Please don't put unchecked info on the wiki, some people rely on the info...]

A request from one of the readers here: Please list the in game Month/Year of the first notice when possible. Thank you.

Colonies

2009-07-15T13:56:41Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ Confirmed minimum for class 7 colony of 700 ships.

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 60 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days, although the delay can be significantly longer. Many players have reported waiting 2 weeks or more. Frequency of upgrade offers MAY depend upon your current colony population percentage - this has not been confirmed.
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of enectrium. (Enectrium is required for building the flagship for the [[Director's Quest]].)

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: 224
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: 299
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: 225
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: 499
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: 300
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: 699
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: 500
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: 1099
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: 700
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: 1499
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: 1100
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: 2199
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: 1500
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: 2,200
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''6399?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''9999''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6381& 6406)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''24,999''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''49,999''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

MV Sightings

2009-06-23T14:54:49Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Vessel sightings */

MV Sightings

2009-06-21T14:18:52Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Vessel sightings */

Colonies

2009-06-16T02:09:05Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ Confirmed 1100 minimum for a class 8

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 60 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days. E.g. My colony offers came on Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Saturday ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of enectrium. (Enectrium is required for building the flagship for the director's quest.)

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: 224
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: 299
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: 225
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: 499
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: 300
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: 500
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: 1099
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: 1100
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: 2199
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1426 & 1509)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: 2,200
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6381& 6406)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''24,999''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

MV Sightings

2009-06-11T16:49:31Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Vessel sightings */

Colonies

2009-06-09T04:31:23Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ confirmed minimum of 300 for a class 5 colony

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 60 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days. E.g. My colony offers came on Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Saturday ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of enectrium. (Enectrium is required for building the flagship for the director's quest.)

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: 224
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: 299
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: 225
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: 499
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: 300
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: 500
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1100?'' (btwn 1004 & 1219)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: 2199
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1426 & 1509)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: 2,200
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6381& 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''24,999''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

MV Sightings

2009-06-06T12:48:26Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Vessel sightings */

Colonies

2009-06-01T00:23:31Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ confirmed minimum of 225 for a Class 4

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days. E.g. My colony offers came on Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Saturday ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: 224
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: 225
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 312)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1100?'' (btwn 1004 & 1219)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: 2199
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1385 & 1509)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: 2,200
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Talk:Colonies

2009-05-27T23:13:50Z

Blasius.Messmer:

The following was posted by an anonymous user:

*'''Note:''' You ppl are wrong! it is not total, it personnal ships that determine this. At 2203 total and 480 pers. ships the 50k colony became no longer available (max for that is 480 pers) and the 125k colony became available to me (min for that is 480 pers). Total MAY affect it, but I watched closely and it was exactly 2203/480 that the new level came up in my HUD (I watched EVERY ship I bought for colony's).

------------
I removed that comment and sent the following reply to the IP address who originated it but am also posting it here in case that was not a static IP.
-----------

Hi,

Not sure who you are, but the colonies are definitely based on total ships. The only bearing personal ships has, is on the minimum needed to purchase a colony at the various levels.

I think part of the confusion here is that the colony offers do not appear immediately when you are eligible. When you already have 3, the offers to upgrade, come about every 4-5 hours. If you have increased a number of ships by then, you may see your offer appear at different total ships. For the updates we've been tracking, there are at least 20 people supplying their counts. I can assure you that personal ships have nothing to do with it.

For instance, in your case (Class 10 becoming available), I have had 3 folks report to me with 3712 total /178 personal, 3694 total / 183 personal, 3987 total / 212 personal. I have several other examples, but those are just a few.

Rather than post argumentative comments on the Wiki page, please contact one of the folks who have been updating it regularly. I'd also suggest you work hard to get your facts straight before accusing others of being "wrong".

Cheers,
Blasius Messmer

Colonies

2009-05-27T18:47:07Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ - Confirmed max for Class 8 as 2199 and minimum for Class 10 as 2200. Though it doesn't apply, pers ships were 391 for the Class 10.

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days. E.g. My colony offers came on Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Saturday ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 312)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1100?'' (btwn 1004 & 1219)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: 2199
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1385 & 1509)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: 2,200
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-27T03:23:41Z

Blasius.Messmer: updated range for the minimum on a class 10 to "btwn 2171 & 2203", also bumped the minimum estimate from 2100 to 2200

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days. E.g. My colony offers came on Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Saturday ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 312)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1100?'' (btwn 1004 & 1219)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''2199?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1385 & 1509)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''2,200?'' (btwn 2171 & 2203)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-22T01:14:07Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ updated range for minimum on class 8 to "btwn 1004 & 1219" and class 9 to "btwn 1385 & 1509"

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days. E.g. My colony offers came on Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Saturday ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 312)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1100?'' (btwn 1004 & 1219)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''2,099?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1385 & 1509)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''2,100?'' (btwn 1869 & 2203)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Ranks

2009-05-21T17:02:28Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Ranks */ Updated SPF for Captain to 140.

=== Navigation ===
[[Upgrades]]

[[Information]]

[[Colonies]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== Ranks ===

{| border="1"
! Rank
! Name
! Nr. of ships
! Guild dues
! Commission (per ship)
! SPF
! Personal Ships for Colony
! Maximum credits/colonist *)
|-
| 0
| Pilot
| 1
| 10%
| n.a.
| n.a.
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 1
| Runner
| 2 - 9
| 15%
| 900
| 350
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 2
| Courier
| 10 - 19
| 15%
| 800
| 300
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 3
| Merchant
| 20 - 49
| 20%
| 700
| 300
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 4
| Trader
| 50 - 99
| 20%
| 600
| 300
| 25
| 147 credits
|-
| 5
| Trade Baron(ess)
| 100 - 249
| 20%
| 500
| 300
| 40
| 126 credits
|-
| 5.1
| Trade Master
| 250 - 499
| 22%
| 450
| 290
| 40
| 126 credits
|-
|-
| 6
| Broker
| 500 - 749
| 25%
| 400
| 275
| 60
| 105 credits
|-
| 6.1
| Broker Elite
| 750 - 999
| 25%
| 350
| 270
| 60
| 105 credits
|-
| 7
| Mogul
| 1,000 - 2,499
| 26%
| 300
| 240
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 7.1
| High Mogul
| 2,500 - 4,999
| 28%
| 275
| 225
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 7.2
| Mogul Elite
| 5,000 - 7,499
| 26%
| 250
| 200
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 7.3
| Vice Captain
| 7,500 - 9,999
| 25%
| 225
| 175
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 8
| Captain
| 10,000 - 14,999
| 25%
| 200
| 140
| 300
| 63 credits
|-
| 8.1
| Vice Commander
| 15,000 - 19,999
| 25%
| 166
| 125
| 300
| 63 credits
|-
| 8.2
| Commander
| 20,000 - director
| 25%
| 133
| 110
| 300
| 63 credits
|-
| 9
| Director
| 25,000 + Flagship Completed
| 25%
| 100
| 100
| 300
| 42 credits (?)
|-
| 10
| Guild leader
| ?
| ?
| 100 (assume)
| ?
| ?
| 21 credits (?)
|}

* This colonist bonus is based on the assumption that you have at least one terrestrial planet. When you don't have one, the bonus is a couple of credits (1 to 7) lower.

'''Ship pricing formulas are as follows:'''

* Standard purchase formula: Price = SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
* Discounted purchase formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
* Standard sale formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned - 1) * (Ships Owned - 1)
* Bonus sale formula: Price = 1.2 * SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
SPF is Ship Purchase Factor and is based on your current rank.

At some moment, when prices go over 1 million credits (about 58 ships personal), prices of ships are leveled to round figures (upwards). So a ship costs - considering what's above - 2,346,280 credits, you pay 2.4 million (just an example).

'''Limitations:'''
* Players with less than 5 ships (Runner) of their own can't recruit
* Players with less than 5 ships can't receive ships as gifts (message: player too inexperienced)
* You can only give ships to a maximum of 1 rank above you or all ranks below you (except for what is mentioned above)
* You can keep subordinates up to 5 ranks below your own
* You can't choose a superior more than 3 ranks above your own
* Players with equal ranks (at least up to the rank of Captain) can't choose each other as superior/subordinate (perhaps it will be possible at the rank of Director)

====Director's Quest====

At 25,000 total ships you can begin the quest for becoming a Director. You begin the quest with the following message:

- Pending Promotion:
Your guildleader informs you of some good news and some bad. The good news is that your fleet is large enough to become a Director of the guild. However, you cannot be promoted without having build a flagship for your fleet.

- Flagship Progress
You Still need someone to help you design your flagship

- Risk and Reward
A well-dressed traveler at a way station introduces herself as a shipwright, and offers to build you a new spaceship at no cost, to improve her portfolio. She needs to borrow one of your ships to copy. Take the risk? (i had this as Trader or Trade Baron - it might not be a director specific quest)

- Shipwright
You gain a ship, the shipwright notices your guild rank, and pauses for a moment. "Are you looking for a flagship designer? If so, I'm your woman. I'll only charge 500,000,000cr" Hire her?

- Shipwright
You hire the shipwright and immediately start working together on plans for your flagship. You paid 500 million credits.

- Flagship Progress
Your Flagship design is well underway, but you still need an orbital construction bay large enough to have your flagship built. You don't seem to have any place suitable for this purpose.

- Flagship Progress (Advanced Starbase built)
You still need a construction bay before you can build a flagship. You know just the place, but the people there are non-conformist by nature. Before they offer to help they need to sense that you, too, prefer the road less traveled.

More information on the page [[DQ Explained]]

====Call of Leadership====

The TE 3000 equivalent to the Pathway to Royalty. Begins your journey to becoming a Guild Leader. You can begin the "Call of Leadership" when you reach the rank of Captain and have 450 personal ships.

- Call of Leadership (450 personal ships)
If you wish someday to become leader of your own guild, there are steps you must take to demonstrate your Leadership abilities. You must also show commitment to your colonists and your fellow traders

STEP 1:
To show you can act outside your own interests, you can improve trade conditions for all by installing comm beacons along the trade lanes. This will cost 200,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 200,000,000 credits to install comm beacons along the trade lanes in the local star system. Nervous new pilots thank you profusely, and even grizzled veterans nod your way in appreciation of your effort.

Call of Leadership (500 ships)
If you wish someday to become leader of your own guild, there are steps you must take to demonstrate your leadership abilities. You must also show commitment to your colonists and your fellow traders.

STEP 2
Access to food has become an issue in your growing colonies. Gro-gro paste is not as popular as it used to be. A hydroponic Farm Structure on each colony costs 400,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 400,000,000 credits for a hydroponic farm system on each colony. The draw of freshly grown food brings, 43,000 new colonists in from other areas. Your reputation as a leader is on the rise.

STEP 3 (550 personal ships 20,000 total)
You can continue to improve trade conditions for all local traders by paying for a grav engineer to precisely map the local planets' orbits. This will cost 800,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 800,000,000 credits for a detailed orbital map of the local planets and moons. This allows transport ships to save fuel by using nearby gravity wells for acceleration. All local traders thank you.

STEP 4 (30,000 total ships)
To gain the support of your colonists, you consider upgrading the infrastructure in the colonies. A system of medical clinics is required. Will you pay 1,000,000,000 credits for some clinics?

Results:
You paid 1,000,000,000 credits for a system of medical clinics amongst your colonies. Word of your benevolence gets out, and 240,000 new colonists join you. Your reputation as a decisive leader is on the rise.

===Other information===
More information can be found at the page [[Terms Used]].

Ranks

2009-05-20T22:02:09Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Ranks */ - updated SPF For Trade Master (290), Broker (275), Broker Elite (270) & Mogul (240)

=== Navigation ===
[[Upgrades]]

[[Information]]

[[Colonies]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== Ranks ===

{| border="1"
! Rank
! Name
! Nr. of ships
! Guild dues
! Commission (per ship)
! SPF
! Personal Ships for Colony
! Maximum credits/colonist *)
|-
| 0
| Pilot
| 1
| 10%
| n.a.
| n.a.
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 1
| Runner
| 2 - 9
| 15%
| 900
| 350
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 2
| Courier
| 10 - 19
| 15%
| 800
| 300
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 3
| Merchant
| 20 - 49
| 20%
| 700
| 300
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 4
| Trader
| 50 - 99
| 20%
| 600
| 300
| 25
| 147 credits
|-
| 5
| Trade Baron(ess)
| 100 - 249
| 20%
| 500
| 300
| 40
| 126 credits
|-
| 5.1
| Trade Master
| 250 - 499
| 22%
| 450
| 290
| 40
| 126 credits
|-
|-
| 6
| Broker
| 500 - 749
| 25%
| 400
| 275
| 60
| 105 credits
|-
| 6.1
| Broker Elite
| 750 - 999
| 25%
| 350
| 270
| 60
| 105 credits
|-
| 7
| Mogul
| 1,000 - 2,499
| 26%
| 300
| 240
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 7.1
| High Mogul
| 2,500 - 4,999
| 28%
| 275
| 225
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 7.2
| Mogul Elite
| 5,000 - 7,499
| 26%
| 250
| 200
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 7.3
| Vice Captain
| 7,500 - 9,999
| 25%
| 225
| 175
| 80
| 84 credits
|-
| 8
| Captain
| 10,000 - 14,999
| 25%
| 200
| 150
| 300
| 63 credits
|-
| 8.1
| Vice Commander
| 15,000 - 19,999
| 25%
| 166
| 125
| 300
| 63 credits
|-
| 8.2
| Commander
| 20,000 - director
| 25%
| 133
| 110
| 300
| 63 credits
|-
| 9
| Director
| 25,000 + Flagship Completed (start 25k)
| 25%
| 100
| 100
| 300
| 42 credits (?)
|-
| 10
| Guild leader
| ?
| ?
| 100 (assume)
| ?
| ?
| 21 credits (?)
|}

* This colonist bonus is based on the assumption that you have at least one terrestrial planet. When you don't have one, the bonus is a couple of credits (1 to 7) lower.

'''Ship pricing formulas are as follows:'''

* Standard purchase formula: Price = SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
* Discounted purchase formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
* Standard sale formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned - 1) * (Ships Owned - 1)
* Bonus sale formula: Price = 1.2 * SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
SPF is Ship Purchase Factor and is based on your current rank.

At some moment, when prices go over 1 million credits (about 58 ships personal), prices of ships are leveled to round figures (upwards). So a ship costs - considering what's above - 2,346,280 credits, you pay 2.4 million (just an example).

'''Limitations:'''
* Players with less than 5 ships (Runner) of their own can't recruit
* Players with less than 5 ships can't receive ships as gifts (message: player too inexperienced)
* You can only give ships to a maximum of 1 rank above you or all ranks below you (except for what is mentioned above)
* You can keep subordinates up to 5 ranks below your own
* You can't choose a superior more than 3 ranks above your own
* Players with equal ranks (at least up to the rank of Captain) can't choose each other as superior/subordinate (perhaps it will be possible at the rank of Director)

====Director's Quest====

At 25,000 total ships you can begin the quest for becoming a Director. You begin the quest with the following message:

- Pending Promotion:
Your guildleader informs you of some good news and some bad. The good news is that your fleet is large enough to become a Director of the guild. However, you cannot be promoted without having build a flagship for your fleet.

- Flagship Progress
You Still need someone to help you design your flagship

- Risk and Reward
A well-dressed traveler at a way station introduces herself as a shipwright, and offers to build you a new spaceship at no cost, to improve her portfolio. She needs to borrow one of your ships to copy. Take the risk? (i had this as Trader or Trade Baron - it might not be a director specific quest)

- Shipwright
You gain a ship, the shipwright notices your guild rank, and pauses for a moment. "Are you looking for a flagship designer? If so, I'm your woman. I'll only charge 500,000,000cr" Hire her?

- Shipwright
You hire the shipwright and immediately start working together on plans for your flagship. You paid 500 million credits.

- Flagship Progress
Your Flagship design is well underway, but you still need an orbital construction bay large enough to have your flagship built. You don't seem to have any place suitable for this purpose.

- Flagship Progress (Advanced Starbase built)
You still need a construction bay before you can build a flagship. You know just the place, but the people there are non-conformist by nature. Before they offer to help they need to sense that you, too, prefer the road less traveled.

More information on the page [[DQ Explained]]

====Call of Leadership====

The TE 3000 equivalent to the Pathway to Royalty. Begins your journey to becoming a Guild Leader. You can begin the "Call of Leadership" when you reach the rank of Captain and have 450 personal ships.

- Call of Leadership (450 personal ships)
If you wish someday to become leader of your own guild, there are steps you must take to demonstrate your Leadership abilities. You must also show commitment to your colonists and your fellow traders

STEP 1:
To show you can act outside your own interests, you can improve trade conditions for all by installing comm beacons along the trade lanes. This will cost 200,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 200,000,000 credits to install comm beacons along the trade lanes in the local star system. Nervous new pilots thank you profusely, and even grizzled veterans nod your way in appreciation of your effort.

Call of Leadership (500 ships)
If you wish someday to become leader of your own guild, there are steps you must take to demonstrate your leadership abilities. You must also show commitment to your colonists and your fellow traders.

STEP 2
Access to food has become an issue in your growing colonies. Gro-gro paste is not as popular as it used to be. A hydroponic Farm Structure on each colony costs 400,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 400,000,000 credits for a hydroponic farm system on each colony. The draw of freshly grown food brings, 43,000 new colonists in from other areas. Your reputation as a leader is on the rise.

STEP 3 (550 personal ships 20,000 total)
You can continue to improve trade conditions for all local traders by paying for a grav engineer to precisely map the local planets' orbits. This will cost 800,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 800,000,000 credits for a detailed orbital map of the local planets and moons. This allows transport ships to save fuel by using nearby gravity wells for acceleration. All local traders thank you.

STEP 4 (30,000 total ships)
To gain the support of your colonists, you consider upgrading the infrastructure in the colonies. A system of medical clinics is required. Will you pay 1,000,000,000 credits for some clinics?

Results:
You paid 1,000,000,000 credits for a system of medical clinics amongst your colonies. Word of your benevolence gets out, and 240,000 new colonists join you. Your reputation as a decisive leader is on the rise.

===Other information===
More information can be found at the page [[Terms Used]].

Talk:Colonies

2009-05-20T15:28:01Z

Blasius.Messmer: New page: The following was posted by an anonymous user: *'''Note:''' You ppl are wrong! it is not total, it personnal ships that determine this. At 2203 total and 480 pers. ships the 50k colony ...

The following was posted by an anonymous user:

*'''Note:''' You ppl are wrong! it is not total, it personnal ships that determine this. At 2203 total and 480 pers. ships the 50k colony became no longer available (max for that is 480 pers) and the 125k colony became available to me (min for that is 480 pers). Total MAY affect it, but I watched closely and it was exactly 2203/480 that the new level came up in my HUD (I watched EVERY ship I bought for colony's).

------------
I removed that comment and sent the following reply to the IP address who originated it but am also posting it here in case that was not a static IP.
-----------

Hi,

Not sure who you are, but the colonies are definitely based on total ships. The only bearing personal ships has is on the minimum needed to purchase a colony at the various levels.

I think part of the confusion here is that the colony offers do not appear immediately when you are eligible. When you already have 3, the the offers to upgrade come about ever 4-5 hours later. If you have increased a number of ships by then, you may see your offer appear at different total ships. For the updates we've been tracking, there are at least 20 people supplying their counts. I can assure you that personal ships have nothing to do with it.

For instance, in your case (Class 10 becoming available), I have had 3 folks report to me with 3712 total /178 personal, 3694 total / 183 personal, 3987 total / 212 personal. I have many other examples, but those are just a few.

Rather than post argumentative comments on the Wiki page, please contact one of the folks who have been updating it regularly. I'd also suggest you work hard to get your facts straight before accusing others of being "wrong".

Cheers,
Blasius Messmer

Colonies

2009-05-20T15:25:26Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ - removed an invalid comment suggesting that the 20+ people who are contributing to this page are wrong. if you are the person who submitted that, please contact me directly.

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 312)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1100?''(btwn 1004 & 1384)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''2,099?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1385 & 1863)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''2,100?'' (btwn 1869 & 2203)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

User talk:99.154.118.216

2009-05-20T15:23:37Z

Blasius.Messmer: New page: Hi, Not sure who you are, but the colonies are definitely based on total ships. The only bearing personal ships has is on the minimum needed to purchase a colony at the various levels. ...

Hi,

Not sure who you are, but the colonies are definitely based on total ships. The only bearing personal ships has is on the minimum needed to purchase a colony at the various levels.

I think part of the confusion here is that the colony offers do not appear immediately when you are eligible. When you already have 3, the the offers to upgrade come about ever 4-5 hours later. If you have increased a number of ships by then, you may see your offer appear at different total ships. For the updates we've been tracking, there are at least 20 people supplying their counts. I can assure you that personal ships have nothing to do with it.

For instance, in your case (Class 10 becoming available), I have had 3 folks report to me with 3712 total /178 personal, 3694 total / 183 personal, 3987 total / 212 personal. I have many other examples, but those are just a few.

Rather than post argumentative comments on the Wiki page, please contact one of the folks who have been updating it regularly. I'd also suggest you work hard to get your facts straight before accusing others of being "wrong".

Cheers,
Blasius Messmer

Colonies

2009-05-20T15:03:45Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ - updated several of the ranges, and bumped the estimate for a class 8 from 1000 to 1100

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 312)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 734)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1100?''(btwn 1004 & 1384)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''2,099?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''1500?'' (btwn 1385 & 1863)
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''2,100?'' (btwn 1869 & 2203)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".
*'''Note:''' You ppl are wrong! it is not total, it personnal ships that determine this. At 2203 total and 480 pers. ships the 50k colony became no longer available (max for that is 480 pers) and the 125k colony became available to me (min for that is 480 pers). Total MAY affect it, but I watched closely and it was exactly 2203/480 that the new level came up in my HUD (I watched EVERY ship I bought for colony's).

Colonies

2009-05-15T04:17:10Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ updated range for Class 5 minimum to btwn 294 & 312

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 312)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 743)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''2,099?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''2,100?'' (btwn 1864 & 2203)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-14T14:22:55Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 294 & 335)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 743)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''2,099?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''3999?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''2,100?'' (btwn 1864 & 2203)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''25,000''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''50,000''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-05T15:36:42Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ - updated bracket for Class 6 minimum to btwn "482 & 537".

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: 90
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''220?'' (btwn 211 & 229)
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''499 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?'' (btwn 270 & 335)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?'' (btwn 482 & 537)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?'' (btwn 565 & 743)
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''2,500 ?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?'' (btwn 3988 & 4051)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?'' (btwn 6366 & 6407)
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: 10,000
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Synthetic world
|1,000,000
|62,500,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Interstellar Asteroid Belt
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Terraformed Binary Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-02T16:16:13Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* General information about colonies: */ - corrected wording on default disaster handling. no colonists are lost, aside from the initial ones during the disaster notice.

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''90 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''<200''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''400''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-01T13:47:58Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Advice on colonies */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-01T13:42:12Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Minimum requirements for a colony: */ - Reformatted and edited the Advice on colonies.

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

====Advice on colonies====
It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
* A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
* Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of ore. ''[Need confirmation on how this ore can be used...possibly to offset payments to the Mysterious Vessel.]''

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-01T13:26:22Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* General information about colonies: */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
* Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-01T12:39:43Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Minimum requirements for a colony: */ formatting change

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Colonies

2009-05-01T12:39:08Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''500?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

Kelly's Crew

2009-04-29T20:52:09Z

Blasius.Messmer:

We just want to have fun, not drama :)

Join our group and be prepared to laugh a lot, help each other, and party occasionally!! We're a mix of at least 5 original TE kingdoms, and some players who are new to Tiny Empires.

Check us out on Cogmap: [http://www.cogmap.com/chart/kellys-crew-in-te3k]

=== Chart of Line ===
Captain Kelly Barron 
* Cerridwen Wise 
* DemonKnight Demonia 
* Isabella Destiny 
* Jennyl Jameson 
** Ushi Cioc 
*** Danni Bekkers 
**** Blasius Messmer 
***** Meni Bikcin 
****** Scipio Outlander 
******* DandyDon Meredith 
******* Rhianna Penucca 
***** FoxyGhost Baxton'' 
***** Hawk Ireman 
****** Lan Morgath 
******* Wilder Sirbu 
******** Tod Panache 
********* Rex Vintner 
********** Liz Rallier 
****** Xi Soulstar 
******* Fugly Yootz 
******** Linda Kegel 
***** Bruin Ghost 
****** JohnR Marvin 
*** Buggie Breda 
**** Roni Writer 
*** Lisszy Blitz 
*** Aliehsh Heying 
** Jeffuffa Dufaux 
*** Cassidy Lemon 
* Leah Hitendra 
* MoLoveMoFun Hamerer 
* Socommom Flanagan 
* Yar Silvercloud ''

Colonies

2009-04-29T19:29:44Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ - change minimum ship estimate for Class 12 to 6400, based on observations that bracket it between 6366 & 6407

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''1000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

*'''Note:''' The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in ''italics'' and followed by a "?".

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-28T16:00:34Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''6250?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-28T15:42:58Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ - Updated estimates of min/max based on several observations (class 3 btwn 149 & 153, class 5 btwn 270 & 335)

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''224?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''299?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''225?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''300?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''724?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''725?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-28T02:26:19Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''100 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-27T23:05:15Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''4000?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-27T23:02:52Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */ - Removed the Class 11 with the same names as Class 10 as it no longer exists.

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''400?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|12
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|13
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|14
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-26T22:33:39Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Classes */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
! '''Type'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
| Terrestrial
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
| Mining
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
| Man-made
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
| Max: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
| Mining
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Man-made
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
| Terrestrial
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
| Terrestrial
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
| Mining
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
| Man-made
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-26T14:28:28Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony Types: */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

====Colony Classes====
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-26T14:27:10Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Available colonies: */

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Colony Types:====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

'''Colony Classes''
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Upgrades

2009-04-26T14:23:09Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Navigation */

=== Navigation ===
[[Ranks]]

[[Colonies]]

[[Information]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== Upgrades ===

====Some general information====
* Upgrades become available based on the number of personal ships you own.
* The general rule is that with every six (6) ships you buy, an upgrade "unlocks" - it can take a while however to get the upgrade offer and it might be necessary to have some buy/sell activity to trigger the upgrade
* Each upgrade improves the fleet efficiency by 50 credits/ship (as far as we know now)
* The initial cost is the cost of the upgrade at the minimum number of ships (see below).
* If you choose to purchase the upgrade later its cost will be: number of personal ships x multiplier, so the initial costs are only when you buy the upgrade at the minimal required amount of personal ships

====Overview of upgrades====

The following upgrades are available:

{| border="1"
! No. Ships
! Upgrade
! Minumum Cost
! Multiplier
! Eff. bonus (total)
|-
| 3
| Repair Bot
| 300
| 100
| 1,050
|-
| 9
| Cargo Pods
| 28,800
| 3,200
| 1,100
|-
| 15
| Recalibrate Engines
| 108,000
| 7,200
| 1,150
|-
| 21
| Scanner Upgrade
| 268,800
| 12,800
| 1,200
|-
| 27
| VR Rigs
| 540,000
| 20,000
| 1,250
|-
| 33
| Plasma cooled refrigeration system
| 957,000
| 29,000
| 1,300
|-
| 39
| Merchant grade navigation system
| 1,528,800
| 39,200
| 1,350
|-
| 45
| Install an Ops module
| 2,304,000
| 51,200
| 1,400
|-
| 51
| Engine upgrade
| 3,304,800
| 64,800
| 1,450
|-
| 57
| Cloaking device
| 4,560,000
| 80,000
| 1,500
|-
| 63
| Second engine upgrade
| 6,098,400
| 96,800
| 1,550
|-
| 69
| Low-power thrusters
| 7,948,800
| 115,200
| 1,600
|-
| 75
| SUV's
| 10,140,000
| 135,200
| 1,650
|-
| 81
| Hire task master/fleet manager
| 12,700,800
| 156,800
| 1,700
|-
| 87
| Automated inventory module
| 15,660,000
| 180,000
| 1,750
|-
| 93
| Modern repair bots
| 19,046,400
| 204,800
| 1,800
|-
| 99
| Armor plating
| 22,888,800
| 231,200
| 1,850
|-
| 105
| Light-weight armor plating
| 27,216,000
| 259,200
| 1,900
|-
| 111
| Navigational maps
| 32,056,800
| 288,800
| 1,950
|-
| 117
| Course-plotting system / Gravity well slingshot
| 37,440,000
| 320,000
| 2,000
|-
| 123
| Experimental fleet of many tiny ships
| 42,394,400
| 352,800
| 2,050
|-
| 129
| Replace the rest of your fleet with smaller, nimble ships
| 49,948,800
| 387,200
| 2,100
|-
| 135
| Shrink ray (Molecular Compression Tech)
| 57,132,000
| 423,200
| 2,150
|-
| 141
| Superconductor magnet sweep
| 64,972,800
| 460,800
| 2,200
|-
| 147
| Newer cloaking technology
| 73,500,000
| 500,000
| 2,250
|-
| 153
| Modern scanning system
| 82,742,400
| 540,800
| 2,300
|-
| 159
| Ultimate armor plating (from metallic liquid)
| 92,728,800
| 583,200
| 2,350
|-
| 165
| Engines converted to run on soleinium (metallic liquid)
| 103,488,000
| 627,200
| 2,400
|-
| 171
| Soleinium Circuits
| 115,048,800
| 672,800
| 2,450
|-
| 177
| Soleinium Engine - Jump Drive
| 127,440,000
| 720,000
| 2,500
|-
|}

====Remarks====

* The fleet efficiency can be improved further by:
** Buying colonies (each colony gives 100 credits/ship extra to a maximum of 300 credits/ship)
** Alliances: when on Broker level or higher, one can form alliances and create space ports, at four (4) space ports the fleet efficiency improves with 100 credits/ship
** Researching the same disaster 20 times for a 200 credits/ship bonus
** Permanent raise of efficiency by the Mysterious Vessel: each raise is 100 credits/ship, not known how many times this is possible (based on regular TE it can be maximized by 200 credits/ship)

Ranks

2009-04-26T14:21:37Z

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=== Navigation ===
[[Upgrades]]

[[Information]]

[[Colonies]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== Ranks ===

{| border="1"
! Rank
! Name
! Nr. of ships
! Guild dues
! Commission (per ship)
! SPF
! Personal Ships for Colony
|-
| 0
| Pilot
| 1
| 10%
| n.a.
| n.a.
| n.a.
|-
| 1
| Runner
| 2 - 9
| 15%
| 900
| 350
| n.a.
|-
| 2
| Courier
| 10 - 19
| 15%
| 800
| 300
| n.a.
|-
| 3
| Merchant
| 20 - 49
| 20%
| 700
| 300
| n.a.
|-
| 4
| Trader
| 50 - 99
| 20%
| 600
| 300
| 25
|-
| 5
| Trade baron(ess)
| 100 - 499
| 25%
| 500
| 300
| 40
|-
| 6
| Broker
| 500 - 999
| 25%
| 400
| 300
| 60
|-
| 7
| Mogul
| 1,000 - 9,999
| 30%
| 300
| 250
| 80
|-
| 8
| Captain
| 10,000 +
| 30%
| 200
| 150
| 300
|-
| 9
| Director
| 25,000 + Flagship Completed (start 25k)
| 30%
| 100
| 100
| 300
|-
| 10
| Guild leader
| ?
| ?
| 100 (assume)
| ?
| ?
|}

'''Ship pricing formulas are as follows:'''

* Standard purchase formula: Price = SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
* Discounted purchase formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
* Standard sale formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned - 1) * (Ships Owned - 1)
* Bonus sale formula: Price = 1.2 * SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
SPF is Ship Purchase Factor and is based on your current rank.

At some moment, when you are Trade Broker, prices of ships are leveled to round figures (upwards). So a ship costs - considering what's above - 2,346,280 credits, you pay 2.4 million. This is when a ship price reaches over 1 million (about 58 ships personal).

'''Limitations:'''
* Players with less than 5 ships (Runner) of their own can't recruit
* Players with less than 5 ships can't receive ships as gifts (message: player too inexperienced)
* You can only give ships to a maximum of 1 rank above you or all ranks below you (except for what is mentioned above)
* You can keep subordinates up to 5 ranks below your own
* You can't choose a superior more than 3 ranks above your own
* Players with equal ranks (at least up to the rank of Captain) can't choose each other as superior/subordinate (perhaps it will be possible at the rank of Director)

====Director's Quest====

At 25,000 total ships you can begin the quest for becoming a Director. You begin the quest with the following message:

- Pending Promotion:
Your guildleader informs you of some good news and some bad. The good news is that your fleet is large enough to become a Director of the guild. However, you cannot be promoted without having build a flagship for your fleet.

- Flagship Progress
You Still need someone to help you design your flagship

- Risk and Reward
A well-dressed traveler at a way station introduces herself as a shipwright, and offers to build you a new spaceship at no cost, to improve her portfolio. She needs to borrow one of your ships to copy. Take the risk? (i had this as Trader or Trade Baron - it might not be a director specific quest)

- Shipwright
You gain a ship, the shipwright notices your guild rank, and pauses for a moment. "Are you looking for a flagship designer? If so, I'm your woman. I'll only charge 500,000,000cr" Hire her?

- Shipwright
You hire the shipwright and immediately start working together on plans for your flagship. You paid 500 million credits.

- Flagship Progress
Your Flagship design is well underway, but you still need an orbital construction bay large enough to have your flagship built. You don't seem to have any place suitable for this purpose.

- Flagship Progress (Advanced Starbase built)
You still need a construction bay before you can build a flagship. You know just the place, but the people there are non-conformist by nature. Before they offer to help they need to sense that you, too, prefer the road less traveled.

====Call of Leadership====

The TE 3000 equivalent to the Pathway to Royalty. Begins your journey to becoming a Guild Leader. You can begin the "Call of Leadership" when you reach the rank of Captain and have 450 personal ships.

- Call to Leadership (450 personal ships)
If you wish someday to become leader of your own guild, there are steps you must take to demonstrate your Leadership abilities. You must also show commitment to your colonists and your fellow traders

STEP 1:
To show you can act outside your own interests, you can improve trade conditions for all by installing comm beacons along the trade lanes. This will cost 200,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 200,000,000 credits to install comm beacons along the trade lanes in the local star system. Nervous new pilots thank you profusely, and even grizzled veterans nod your way in appreciation of your effort.

Call To Leadership (500 ships)
If you wish someday to become leader of your own guild, there are steps you must take to demonstrate your leadership abilities. You must also show commitment to your colonists and your fellow traders.

STEP 2
Access to food has become an issue in your growing colonies. Gro-gro paste is not as popular as it used to be. A hydroponic Farm Structure on each colony costs 400,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 400,000,000 credits for a hydroponic farm system on each colony. The draw of freshly grown food brings, 43,000 new colonists in from other areas. Your reputation as a leader is on the rise.

STEP 3 (550 ships)
You can continue to improve trade conditions for all local traders by paying for a grav engineer to precisely map the local planets' orbits. This will cost 800,000,000 credits. Pay it?

Results:
You paid 800,000,000 credits for a detailed orbital map of the local planets and moons. This allows transport ships to save fuel by using nearby gravity wells for acceleration. All local traders thank you.

STEP 4 (30,000 total ships)
To gain the support of your colonists, you consider upgrading the infrastructure in the colonies. A system of medical clinics is required. Will you pay 1,000,000,000 credits for some clinics?

Results:
You paid 1,000,000,000 credits for a system of medical clinics amongst your colonies. Word of your benevolence gets out, and 240,000 new colonists join you. Your reputation as a decisive leader is on the rise.

===Other information===
More information can be found at the page [[Terms Used]].

Colonies

2009-04-26T14:20:47Z

Blasius.Messmer:

=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Available colonies:====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

'''Types of Colonies Available'''
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Colonies

2009-04-26T14:19:54Z

Blasius.Messmer:

=== Colonies ===
=== Navigation ===
[[Information]]

[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Available colonies:====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

'''Types of Colonies Available'''
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Information

2009-04-26T14:18:06Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Navigation */

=== Navigation ===
[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Colonies]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== General information ===
Tiny Empires 3000 is a massively multiplayer game that you play entirely in the HUD window in Second Life. The game is set far in the future, when the human race has spread across most of the galaxy. A devastating galactic war has ended, and the corrupt empire of old has been overthrown by a freedom-seeking rebellion force. The economy, badly damaged during the war, is starting to recover. Goods are being traded again among the various star systems.

You start out as a Pilot with a single transport spaceship, earning a modest living by delivering goods to outlying colonies and trade outposts.

The goal of the game is simple: Grow your trade empire by purchasing ships, joining a guild, gaining subordinates, and cultivating colonists.

Of course, you may find that friends make for good subordinates, and subordinates can make very good friends.

The game hud will go into idle mode after a while of no activity, similar to original Tiny Empires. In idle mode there is no income, no dues, nothing. SO there is no danger in leaving your HUD attached all night.

For choosing your own superior, the following rules apply: the superior has to have a minimum of 5 ships, maximum 3 ranks down can hook up with a superior.

===Disasters:===

* Disease
* Corruption
* Piracy (The Hand of Anarchy)

'''Possible actions'''

* ask for guild protection - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* hire war-hardened mercs - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* learn about base defense (a.k.a. Research) - price and effect depend on several factors (research pays off in due time)
* cut a deal with pirates - price and effect depend on several factors

'''Research'''

When someone has three colonies, the possibility comes to research:
* Disease
* Corruption
* "Hand of Anarchy"
So far: after 20x research, researching one of the disasters mentioned above results in 200 credits/ship increased efficiency and resistances to future disasters of that type. Further effects of research are not known at the moment.

=== Fatigue ===
Fatigue builds up in your fleet from too much trade activity. It only affects you after quite a long time of playing the game in a single day. If you are affected, you will see (Fatigue) at the bottom of your ACCTS tab. It lowers your earnings 1.25% per turn. Windfalls, commission, census and fleet earnings are all affected. Ship buying and selling are not, and guild dues are not. It resets back to zero once per day (at around 12 PM SLT). You don't have to do anything. It resets whether you are online or off. Fatigue does not build up during idle mode.

Taking your HUD off will not reset fatigue, only the game reset once a day will do that. You won't lose credits, your income goes down, and if you get the mysterious diamond black ship (trader) you won't earn income from that either while in fatigue.

=== Puzzles ===
To get a solution for the puzzles, check out the website:
[http://www.erzsabet.com/TE3000Calc.html Erzabet's TE Calculators]

====Unity questions====

When in doubt, just say no

There are a couple of unity questions we know of now. They are:
* In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Do you agree? (George Orwell) - Majority tends to answer YES [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/RevolutionaryTruth3366.jpg See Truth example]
* If the post-war peace is better than the pre-war strife, yet the war itself is utterly devastating, is the war a good thing overall? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/War3446.jpg See War example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you failed? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Failure3086.jpg See Success/Failure example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you succeeded? - [Note this is the opposite of the prior example.]
* Voltaire wrote, "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Voltaire3374.jpg See Voltaire example]
* Someone once wrote: "We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO

=== Mysterious vessel (Black Diamond) ===

A "Mysterious Vessel" will occasionally appear in the HUD. His appearance always causes a lot of excitement and joy in Tiny Empires 3000. When he appears, the "Onboard Entity" will ask you for a lot of of credits to trade for minerals and ore, but won't say what you will be getting in exchange. Definitely pay what he asks if you have the credits, as the Vessel is a bonus to the players. The Vessel can give you a boost in either ships or credits, if played properly. The Vessel makes random appearances - Unknown. There is no website yet available that predicts or records past Trading sightings. Note: You only get the "Mysterious Vessel" after the rank of Trader.

On arrival of the "Mysterious Vessel" there are some steps. They are:
* 1st month = 1st notice, warning about the Mysterious Vessels approach.
* 2nd month = nothing
* 3rd month = 2nd notice, warning again of the Mysterious Vessel.
* 4th month = nothing
* 5th month = 3rd notice (+ amount of credits asked)
* 6th month = 4th notice and payment

'''Vessel sightings'''
* 03/11/09 11:19 AM SLT
* 03/15/09 07.39 PM SLT
* 03/18/09 01:19 PM SLT
* 03/21/09 08:55 AM SLT
* 03/24/09 11:18 PM SLT
* 03/29/09 05:51 PM SLT - Jan. 3756
* 04/04/09 07:30 AM SLT - Aug. 3971
* 04/08/09 11:26 PM SLT - Dec. 3151
* 04/11/09 05:24 AM SLT - Nov. 3238
* 04/13/09 11:12 PM SLT - Feb. 3306
* 04/16/09 03:37 AM SLT - Mar. 3429
* 04/19/09 07.34 AM SLT - Jun. 3551
* 04/22/09 04:23 PM SLT - Jun. 3681
* 04/26/09 02:13 AM SLT - Feb. 3813

[Please don't put unchecked info on the wiki, some people rely on the info...]

A request from one of the readers here: Please list the in game Month/Year of the first notice when possible. Thank you.

====Offers of Mysterious Vessel====

''For one year, you may buy ships at a very low price.''

What to do: BUY ships for 12 turns (and sell them if you want to make profit)

The price of buying a ship will be incredibly low. Not totally free, so you will need to have some credits to buy the ships. If you don't have enough gold to buy, you can always buy/sell at the same time, but be careful the selling price doesn't drop too.

''For one year your ships will be worth more than normal''

What to do: SELL ships for 12 turns (and buy them back if you want to keep your personal fleet the same level)

Your ships are worth a lot with this bonus, but depending on your situation you may want to BUY and SELL at once so you do not lose total ships. However you will get a slightly higher profit if you sell all at once then buy back at a lower cost. This will take more time though it you are patient.

''Offers fuel pellets, your efficiency skyrockets.''

What to do: WAIT out the 12 turns to collect credits and BUY ships (when you can/want)

Your ship efficiency will skyrocket for 12 turns, and you will get a ridiculous amount of credits per turn. Like with any bonus that builds up your credits, buy ships when you can. Unlike old TE,the efficiency goes up instead of down when you buy.

''Fleet efficiency has been raise by 100 credits/ship permanently.''

What to do: Nothing!

This bonus permanently increases your ship efficiency by 100cr/ship. You can check your ship efficiency by clicking on the Accounting tab in the HUD. When you get this bonus, you have nothing further to do. This is the best bonus in my opinion, and pays off the most in the long run.

''Purchased ships are very likely to contain surprises''

What to do: BUY ships for 11 turns

You will receive a surprise in credits which is close to the price of the ship you just bought. Sometimes "hidden chamber with a credit chip", or "transport previous owner", or "left-over cargo". Basically you are getting ships for free or incredibly cheap. Note that for the last month of the Trader bonus year, you don't get the bonus - hence you only buy for 11 of the 12 turns.

''ONE of your ships is worth more.''

What to do: SELL ships (and buy back if you want)

You receive messages that say, "Do you want to sell this ship? Perhaps it is worth something" during normally occurring ship buy/sell turns. Selling this ship may or may not give a profit. Usually it takes 3-7 sales to receive the "rare ship" worth more, but depending on how many it takes (the longer it takes to find, the more it seems to be worth), you will receive between 2 and 3 times what you paid the vessel in return. This is the only "Buy and Sell" option that you can log off and come back later and finish, as it does not finish with the trader year but will continue until you receive your pay out.

''You match velocities with the mysterious vessel. Your minerals vanish, to be replaced by.... nothing? Wait. Searching again, you find a liquid metallic sphere encased in a carbon shell. This must be purified Soleinium.''

Possibly the same substance that is used in high end [[upgrades]]?
''(Received by Buckaroo Mu, April 8th.)''

'''WARNING'''

If you have FATIGUE when the trader comes, be careful, after you pay him, you may zero out and not get any profits from fuel pellets! You may end up losing all your credits! Depending on which bonus you get or how bad your fatigue is, it is very risky!

Information

2009-04-26T14:17:21Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Colony */

Colonies

2009-04-26T14:16:41Z

Blasius.Messmer: New page: === Colonies === ====General information about colonies:==== * If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like...

=== Colonies ===
====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Available colonies:====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

'''Types of Colonies Available'''
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

Main Page

2009-04-26T14:15:04Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Tiny Empires 3000 */

= Tiny Empires 3000 =

* [[Ranks]]
* [[Upgrades]]
* [[Colonies]]
* [[Information]]
* [[Terms Used]]
* [[Troubleshooting]]
* [[Links to Outside Resources]]
* [[SubGroups and Lines]]

== Tiny Empires Basics ==

Tiny Empires 3000 is a massively multi-player turn-based game played inside the virtual world Second Life via the use of a HUD (Heads Up Display), where the goal is to acquire ships, credits, subjects and move in standings amongst the other residents of the guild. Game play is set in a sci-fi future (presumably around the year 3000).

Information

2009-04-26T13:54:56Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Available colonies: */

=== Navigation ===
[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== General information ===
Tiny Empires 3000 is a massively multiplayer game that you play entirely in the HUD window in Second Life. The game is set far in the future, when the human race has spread across most of the galaxy. A devastating galactic war has ended, and the corrupt empire of old has been overthrown by a freedom-seeking rebellion force. The economy, badly damaged during the war, is starting to recover. Goods are being traded again among the various star systems.

You start out as a Pilot with a single transport spaceship, earning a modest living by delivering goods to outlying colonies and trade outposts.

The goal of the game is simple: Grow your trade empire by purchasing ships, joining a guild, gaining subordinates, and cultivating colonists.

Of course, you may find that friends make for good subordinates, and subordinates can make very good friends.

The game hud will go into idle mode after a while of no activity, similar to original Tiny Empires. In idle mode there is no income, no dues, nothing. SO there is no danger in leaving your HUD attached all night.

For choosing your own superior, the following rules apply: the superior has to have a minimum of 5 ships, maximum 3 ranks down can hook up with a superior.

=== Colony ===
====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Available colonies:====
{| border="1"
! '''Type'''
! '''Benefits'''
! '''Examples'''
|-
| Terrestrial
| Higher payout per colonist at census
| Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
|-
| Mining
| Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore
| Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
|-
| Orbital / Man-made
| Discounted disaster handling and research
| Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase
|-
|}

'''Types of Colonies Available'''
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
! '''Total Ships Required'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
| Min: 50
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
| Max: 149
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
| Min: ''70 ?''
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
| Min: 150
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
| Min: ''?''
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
| Max: ''?''
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

===Disasters:===

* Disease
* Corruption
* Piracy (The Hand of Anarchy)

'''Possible actions'''

* ask for guild protection - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* hire war-hardened mercs - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* learn about base defense (a.k.a. Research) - price and effect depend on several factors (research pays off in due time)
* cut a deal with pirates - price and effect depend on several factors

'''Research'''

When someone has three colonies, the possibility comes to research:
* Disease
* Corruption
* "Hand of Anarchy"
So far: after 20x research, researching one of the disasters mentioned above results in 200 credits/ship increased efficiency and resistances to future disasters of that type. Further effects of research are not known at the moment.

=== Fatigue ===
Fatigue builds up in your fleet from too much trade activity. It only affects you after quite a long time of playing the game in a single day. If you are affected, you will see (Fatigue) at the bottom of your ACCTS tab. It lowers your earnings 1.25% per turn. Windfalls, commission, census and fleet earnings are all affected. Ship buying and selling are not, and guild dues are not. It resets back to zero once per day (at around 12 PM SLT). You don't have to do anything. It resets whether you are online or off. Fatigue does not build up during idle mode.

Taking your HUD off will not reset fatigue, only the game reset once a day will do that. You won't lose credits, your income goes down, and if you get the mysterious diamond black ship (trader) you won't earn income from that either while in fatigue.

=== Puzzles ===
To get a solution for the puzzles, check out the website:
[http://www.erzsabet.com/TE3000Calc.html Erzabet's TE Calculators]

====Unity questions====

When in doubt, just say no

There are a couple of unity questions we know of now. They are:
* In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Do you agree? (George Orwell) - Majority tends to answer YES [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/RevolutionaryTruth3366.jpg See Truth example]
* If the post-war peace is better than the pre-war strife, yet the war itself is utterly devastating, is the war a good thing overall? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/War3446.jpg See War example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you failed? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Failure3086.jpg See Success/Failure example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you succeeded? - [Note this is the opposite of the prior example.]
* Voltaire wrote, "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Voltaire3374.jpg See Voltaire example]
* Someone once wrote: "We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO

=== Mysterious vessel (Black Diamond) ===

A "Mysterious Vessel" will occasionally appear in the HUD. His appearance always causes a lot of excitement and joy in Tiny Empires 3000. When he appears, the "Onboard Entity" will ask you for a lot of of credits to trade for minerals and ore, but won't say what you will be getting in exchange. Definitely pay what he asks if you have the credits, as the Vessel is a bonus to the players. The Vessel can give you a boost in either ships or credits, if played properly. The Vessel makes random appearances - Unknown. There is no website yet available that predicts or records past Trading sightings. Note: You only get the "Mysterious Vessel" after the rank of Trader.

On arrival of the "Mysterious Vessel" there are some steps. They are:
* 1st month = 1st notice, warning about the Mysterious Vessels approach.
* 2nd month = nothing
* 3rd month = 2nd notice, warning again of the Mysterious Vessel.
* 4th month = nothing
* 5th month = 3rd notice (+ amount of credits asked)
* 6th month = 4th notice and payment

'''Vessel sightings'''
* 03/11/09 11:19 AM SLT
* 03/15/09 07.39 PM SLT
* 03/18/09 01:19 PM SLT
* 03/21/09 08:55 AM SLT
* 03/24/09 11:18 PM SLT
* 03/29/09 05:51 PM SLT - Jan. 3756
* 04/04/09 07:30 AM SLT - Aug. 3971
* 04/08/09 11:26 PM SLT - Dec. 3151
* 04/11/09 05:24 AM SLT - Nov. 3238
* 04/13/09 11:12 PM SLT - Feb. 3306
* 04/16/09 03:37 AM SLT - Mar. 3429
* 04/19/09 07.34 AM SLT - Jun. 3551
* 04/22/09 04:23 PM SLT - Jun. 3681
* 04/26/09 02:13 AM SLT - Feb. 3813

[Please don't put unchecked info on the wiki, some people rely on the info...]

A request from one of the readers here: Please list the in game Month/Year of the first notice when possible. Thank you.

====Offers of Mysterious Vessel====

''For one year, you may buy ships at a very low price.''

What to do: BUY ships for 12 turns (and sell them if you want to make profit)

The price of buying a ship will be incredibly low. Not totally free, so you will need to have some credits to buy the ships. If you don't have enough gold to buy, you can always buy/sell at the same time, but be careful the selling price doesn't drop too.

''For one year your ships will be worth more than normal''

What to do: SELL ships for 12 turns (and buy them back if you want to keep your personal fleet the same level)

Your ships are worth a lot with this bonus, but depending on your situation you may want to BUY and SELL at once so you do not lose total ships. However you will get a slightly higher profit if you sell all at once then buy back at a lower cost. This will take more time though it you are patient.

''Offers fuel pellets, your efficiency skyrockets.''

What to do: WAIT out the 12 turns to collect credits and BUY ships (when you can/want)

Your ship efficiency will skyrocket for 12 turns, and you will get a ridiculous amount of credits per turn. Like with any bonus that builds up your credits, buy ships when you can. Unlike old TE,the efficiency goes up instead of down when you buy.

''Fleet efficiency has been raise by 100 credits/ship permanently.''

What to do: Nothing!

This bonus permanently increases your ship efficiency by 100cr/ship. You can check your ship efficiency by clicking on the Accounting tab in the HUD. When you get this bonus, you have nothing further to do. This is the best bonus in my opinion, and pays off the most in the long run.

''Purchased ships are very likely to contain surprises''

What to do: BUY ships for 11 turns

You will receive a surprise in credits which is close to the price of the ship you just bought. Sometimes "hidden chamber with a credit chip", or "transport previous owner", or "left-over cargo". Basically you are getting ships for free or incredibly cheap. Note that for the last month of the Trader bonus year, you don't get the bonus - hence you only buy for 11 of the 12 turns.

''ONE of your ships is worth more.''

What to do: SELL ships (and buy back if you want)

You receive messages that say, "Do you want to sell this ship? Perhaps it is worth something" during normally occurring ship buy/sell turns. Selling this ship may or may not give a profit. Usually it takes 3-7 sales to receive the "rare ship" worth more, but depending on how many it takes (the longer it takes to find, the more it seems to be worth), you will receive between 2 and 3 times what you paid the vessel in return. This is the only "Buy and Sell" option that you can log off and come back later and finish, as it does not finish with the trader year but will continue until you receive your pay out.

''You match velocities with the mysterious vessel. Your minerals vanish, to be replaced by.... nothing? Wait. Searching again, you find a liquid metallic sphere encased in a carbon shell. This must be purified Soleinium.''

Possibly the same substance that is used in high end [[upgrades]]?
''(Received by Buckaroo Mu, April 8th.)''

'''WARNING'''

If you have FATIGUE when the trader comes, be careful, after you pay him, you may zero out and not get any profits from fuel pellets! You may end up losing all your credits! Depending on which bonus you get or how bad your fatigue is, it is very risky!

Information

2009-04-25T14:24:15Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Available colonies: */

=== Navigation ===
[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== General information ===
Tiny Empires 3000 is a massively multiplayer game that you play entirely in the HUD window in Second Life. The game is set far in the future, when the human race has spread across most of the galaxy. A devastating galactic war has ended, and the corrupt empire of old has been overthrown by a freedom-seeking rebellion force. The economy, badly damaged during the war, is starting to recover. Goods are being traded again among the various star systems.

You start out as a Pilot with a single transport spaceship, earning a modest living by delivering goods to outlying colonies and trade outposts.

The goal of the game is simple: Grow your trade empire by purchasing ships, joining a guild, gaining subordinates, and cultivating colonists.

Of course, you may find that friends make for good subordinates, and subordinates can make very good friends.

The game hud will go into idle mode after a while of no activity, similar to original Tiny Empires. In idle mode there is no income, no dues, nothing. SO there is no danger in leaving your HUD attached all night.

For choosing your own superior, the following rules apply: the superior has to have a minimum of 5 ships, maximum 3 ranks down can hook up with a superior.

=== Colony ===
====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Available colonies:====
{| border="1"
! '''Level'''
! '''Terrestrial'''
! '''Mining'''
! '''Orbital / Man-made'''
|-
|
| ''more loot at census''
| ''credit bonus at random''
| ''cheaper disasters''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial planetoid
| Mining asteroid
| Orbital laboratory
|-
| 2
| Medium terrestrial planetoid
| Large mining asteroid
| Advanced orbital laboratory
|-
| 3
| Volcanic Dwarf Planet
| Iron-Nickel Moon
| Colony Starship
|-
|}

'''Types of Colonies Available'''
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

===Disasters:===

* Disease
* Corruption
* Piracy (The Hand of Anarchy)

'''Possible actions'''

* ask for guild protection - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* hire war-hardened mercs - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* learn about base defense (a.k.a. Research) - price and effect depend on several factors (research pays off in due time)
* cut a deal with pirates - price and effect depend on several factors

'''Research'''

When someone has three colonies, the possibility comes to research:
* Disease
* Corruption
* "Hand of Anarchy"
So far: after 20x research, researching one of the disasters mentioned above results in 200 credits/ship increased efficiency and resistances to future disasters of that type. Further effects of research are not known at the moment.

=== Fatigue ===
Fatigue builds up in your fleet from too much trade activity. It only affects you after quite a long time of playing the game in a single day. If you are affected, you will see (Fatigue) at the bottom of your ACCTS tab. It lowers your earnings 1.25% per turn. Windfalls, commission, census and fleet earnings are all affected. Ship buying and selling are not, and guild dues are not. It resets back to zero once per day (at around 12 PM SLT). You don't have to do anything. It resets whether you are online or off. Fatigue does not build up during idle mode.

Taking your HUD off will not reset fatigue, only the game reset once a day will do that. You won't lose credits, your income goes down, and if you get the mysterious diamond black ship (trader) you won't earn income from that either while in fatigue.

=== Puzzles ===
To get a solution for the puzzles, check out the website:
[http://www.erzsabet.com/TE3000Calc.html Erzabet's TE Calculators]

====Unity questions====

When in doubt, just say no

There are a couple of unity questions we know of now. They are:
* In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Do you agree? (George Orwell) - Majority tends to answer YES [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/RevolutionaryTruth3366.jpg See Truth example]
* If the post-war peace is better than the pre-war strife, yet the war itself is utterly devastating, is the war a good thing overall? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/War3446.jpg See War example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you failed? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Failure3086.jpg See Success/Failure example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you succeeded? - [Note this is the opposite of the prior example.]
* Voltaire wrote, "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Voltaire3374.jpg See Voltaire example]
* Someone once wrote: "We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO

=== Mysterious vessel (Black Diamond) ===

A "Mysterious Vessel" will occasionally appear in the HUD. His appearance always causes a lot of excitement and joy in Tiny Empires 3000. When he appears, the "Onboard Entity" will ask you for a lot of of credits to trade for minerals and ore, but won't say what you will be getting in exchange. Definitely pay what he asks if you have the credits, as the Vessel is a bonus to the players. The Vessel can give you a boost in either ships or credits, if played properly. The Vessel makes random appearances - Unknown. There is no website yet available that predicts or records past Trading sightings. Note: You only get the "Mysterious Vessel" after the rank of Trader.

On arrival of the "Mysterious Vessel" there are some steps. They are:
* 1st month = 1st notice, warning about the Mysterious Vessels approach.
* 2nd month = nothing
* 3rd month = 2nd notice, warning again of the Mysterious Vessel.
* 4th month = nothing
* 5th month = 3rd notice (+ amount of credits asked)
* 6th month = 4th notice and payment

'''Vessel sightings'''
* 03/11/09 11:19 AM SLT
* 03/15/09 07.39 PM SLT
* 03/18/09 01:19 PM SLT
* 03/21/09 08:55 AM SLT
* 03/24/09 11:18 PM SLT
* 03/29/09 05:51 PM SLT - Jan. 3756
* 04/04/09 07:30 AM SLT - Aug. 3971
* 04/08/09 11:26 PM SLT - Dec. 3151
* 04/11/09 05:24 AM SLT - Nov. 3238
* 04/13/09 11:12 PM SLT - Feb. 3306
* 04/16/09 03:37 AM SLT - Mar. 3429
* 04/19/09 07.34 AM SLT - Jun. 3551
* 04/22/09 04:23 PM SLT - Jun. 3681

[Please don't put unchecked info on the wiki, some people rely on the info...]

A request from one of the readers here: Please list the in game Month/Year of the first notice when possible. Thank you.

====Offers of Mysterious Vessel====

''For one year, you may buy ships at a very low price.''

What to do: BUY ships for 12 turns (and sell them if you want to make profit)

The price of buying a ship will be incredibly low. Not totally free, so you will need to have some credits to buy the ships. If you don't have enough gold to buy, you can always buy/sell at the same time, but be careful the selling price doesn't drop too.

''For one year your ships will be worth more than normal''

What to do: SELL ships for 12 turns (and buy them back if you want to keep your personal fleet the same level)

Your ships are worth a lot with this bonus, but depending on your situation you may want to BUY and SELL at once so you do not lose total ships. However you will get a slightly higher profit if you sell all at once then buy back at a lower cost. This will take more time though it you are patient.

''Offers fuel pellets, your efficiency skyrockets.''

What to do: WAIT out the 12 turns to collect credits and BUY ships (when you can/want)

Your ship efficiency will skyrocket for 12 turns, and you will get a ridiculous amount of credits per turn. Like with any bonus that builds up your credits, buy ships when you can.

''Fleet efficiency has been raise by 100 credits/ship permanently.''

What to do: Nothing!

This bonus permanently increases your ship efficiency by 100cr/ship. You can check your ship efficiency by clicking on the Accounting tab in the HUD. When you get this bonus, you have nothing further to do. This is the best bonus in my opinion, and pays off the most in the long run.

''Purchased ships are very likely to contain surprises''

What to do: BUY ships for 11 turns

You will receive a surprise in credits which is close to the price of the ship you just bought. Sometimes "hidden chamber with a credit chip", or "transport previous owner", or "left-over cargo". Basically you are getting ships for free or incredibly cheap. Note that for the last month of the Trader bonus year, you don't get the bonus - hence you only buy for 11 of the 12 turns.

''ONE of your ships is worth more.''

What to do: SELL ships (and buy back if you want)

You receive messages that say, "Do you want to sell this ship? Perhaps it is worth something" during normally occurring ship buy/sell turns. Selling this ship may or may not give a profit. Usually it takes 3-7 sales to receive the "rare ship" worth more, but depending on how many it takes (the longer it takes to find, the more it seems to be worth), you will receive between 2 and 3 times what you paid the vessel in return. This is the only "Buy and Sell" option that you can log off and come back later and finish, as it does not finish with the trader year but will continue until you receive your pay out.

''You match velocities with the mysterious vessel. Your minerals vanish, to be replaced by.... nothing? Wait. Searching again, you find a liquid metallic sphere encased in a carbon shell. This must be purified Soleinium.''

Possibly the same substance that is used in high end [[upgrades]]?
''(Received by Buckaroo Mu, April 8th.)''

'''WARNING'''

If you have FATIGUE when the trader comes, be careful, after you pay him, you may zero out and not get any profits from fuel pellets! You may end up losing all your credits! Depending on which bonus you get or how bad your fatigue is, it is very risky!

Information

2009-04-25T14:16:22Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Minimum requirements for a colony: */

=== Navigation ===
[[Ranks]]

[[Upgrades]]

[[Terms Used]]

[[Troubleshooting]]

[[Links to Outside Resources]]

=== General information ===
Tiny Empires 3000 is a massively multiplayer game that you play entirely in the HUD window in Second Life. The game is set far in the future, when the human race has spread across most of the galaxy. A devastating galactic war has ended, and the corrupt empire of old has been overthrown by a freedom-seeking rebellion force. The economy, badly damaged during the war, is starting to recover. Goods are being traded again among the various star systems.

You start out as a Pilot with a single transport spaceship, earning a modest living by delivering goods to outlying colonies and trade outposts.

The goal of the game is simple: Grow your trade empire by purchasing ships, joining a guild, gaining subordinates, and cultivating colonists.

Of course, you may find that friends make for good subordinates, and subordinates can make very good friends.

The game hud will go into idle mode after a while of no activity, similar to original Tiny Empires. In idle mode there is no income, no dues, nothing. SO there is no danger in leaving your HUD attached all night.

For choosing your own superior, the following rules apply: the superior has to have a minimum of 5 ships, maximum 3 ranks down can hook up with a superior.

=== Colony ===
====General information about colonies:====
* If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
* Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
* You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
* A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

====Minimum requirements for a colony:====
* Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
* Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
** 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
** 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
** 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
* You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
* For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
* Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
** These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. ''[Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]''
** You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
** When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
** '''Warning''': If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
* The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

====Available colonies:====
{| border="1"
! '''Level'''
! '''Terrestrial'''
! '''Mining'''
! '''Orbital'''
|-
|
| ''more loot at census''
| ''credit bonus at random''
| ''cheaper disasters''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial planetoid
| Mining asteroid
| Orbital laboratory
|-
| 2
| Medium terrestrial planetoid
| Large mining asteroid
| Advanced orbital laboratory
|-
| 3
| Medium terrestrial planetoid
| Large mining asteroid
| Advanced orbital
|-
|}

'''Types of Colonies Available'''
{| border="1"
! '''Class'''
! '''Name'''
! '''Colonist Capacity'''
! '''Cost'''
|-
| 1
| Terrestrial Planetoid
| 2,000
| 437,500
|-
|
| Mining asteroid
|
|
|-
|
|Orbital Laboratory
|
|
|-
|2
|Advanced Orbital Laboratory
|2,500
|1,417,500
|-
|
|Medium Planetoid
|
|
|-
|
|Large Mining asteroid
|
|
|-
|3
|Iron-Rich Asteroid
|3,200
|3,937,500
|-
|
|Orbital Vehicle
|
|
|-
|
|Small Icy Moon
|
|
|-
|4
|Carbonaceous Asteroid
|4,000
|8,859,375
|-
|
|Icy Moon
|
|
|-
|
|Orbital Spacedock
|
|
|-
|5
|Orbital Base
|6,000
|18,000,000
|-
|
|Volcanic Moon
|
|
|-
|
|Silicate Asteroid
|
|
|-
|6
|Large Volcanic Moon
|9,000
|50,000,000
|-
|
|Magnesium Asteroid
|
|
|-
|
|Advanced Orbital Base
|
|
|-
|7
|Rocky Moon
|17,000
|122,500,000
|-
|
|Binary Iron Asteroid
|
|
|-
|
|Colony Spaceship
|
|
|-
|8
|Advanced Colony Spaceship
|30,000
|242,000,000
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
|-
|
|Iron Asteroid Field
|
|
|-
|9
|Iron-Nickel Moon
|50,000
|393,750,000
|-
|
|Colony Starship
|
|
|-
|
|Volcanic Dwarf Planet
|
|
|-
|10
|Small Volcanic Planet
|125,000
|484,000,000
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|-
|11
|Small Volcanic Planet
|250,000
|800,000,000
|-
|
|Advanced Colony Starship
|
|(Yes, the same names)
|-
|
|Selenic Planet
|
|
|-
|12
|Starbase
|240,000
|800,000,000
|-
|
|Xenolith Planet
|
|
|-
|
|Waterworld Planet
|
|
|-
|13
|Advanced Starbase
|430,000
|1,474,560,000
|-
|
|Telluric Planet
|
|
|-
|
|Yttric Planet
|
|
|-
|14
|Artificial Moon
|800,000
|4,000,000,000
|-
|
|Diamond-core Gas Giant
|
|
|-
|
|Blue-green Planet
|
|
|-
|15
|Terraformed Star System
|2,000,000
|300,000,000,000
|-
|
|Ore Rich Star System
|
|
|-
|
|Dyson Sphere
|
|
|}

'''Advice on colonies'''

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
* When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
* When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.

===Disasters:===

* Disease
* Corruption
* Piracy (The Hand of Anarchy)

'''Possible actions'''

* ask for guild protection - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* hire war-hardened mercs - price and effect depend on several factors (increase of population)
* learn about base defense (a.k.a. Research) - price and effect depend on several factors (research pays off in due time)
* cut a deal with pirates - price and effect depend on several factors

'''Research'''

When someone has three colonies, the possibility comes to research:
* Disease
* Corruption
* "Hand of Anarchy"
So far: after 20x research, researching one of the disasters mentioned above results in 200 credits/ship increased efficiency and resistances to future disasters of that type. Further effects of research are not known at the moment.

=== Fatigue ===
Fatigue builds up in your fleet from too much trade activity. It only affects you after quite a long time of playing the game in a single day. If you are affected, you will see (Fatigue) at the bottom of your ACCTS tab. It lowers your earnings 1.25% per turn. Windfalls, commission, census and fleet earnings are all affected. Ship buying and selling are not, and guild dues are not. It resets back to zero once per day (at around 12 PM SLT). You don't have to do anything. It resets whether you are online or off. Fatigue does not build up during idle mode.

Taking your HUD off will not reset fatigue, only the game reset once a day will do that. You won't lose credits, your income goes down, and if you get the mysterious diamond black ship (trader) you won't earn income from that either while in fatigue.

=== Puzzles ===
To get a solution for the puzzles, check out the website:
[http://www.erzsabet.com/TE3000Calc.html Erzabet's TE Calculators]

====Unity questions====

When in doubt, just say no

There are a couple of unity questions we know of now. They are:
* In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Do you agree? (George Orwell) - Majority tends to answer YES [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/RevolutionaryTruth3366.jpg See Truth example]
* If the post-war peace is better than the pre-war strife, yet the war itself is utterly devastating, is the war a good thing overall? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/War3446.jpg See War example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you failed? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Failure3086.jpg See Success/Failure example]
* If you try to fail and you succeed, have you succeeded? - [Note this is the opposite of the prior example.]
* Voltaire wrote, "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO [http://www.timelesscreationssl.com/Voltaire3374.jpg See Voltaire example]
* Someone once wrote: "We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it." Do you agree? - Majority tends to answer NO

=== Mysterious vessel (Black Diamond) ===

A "Mysterious Vessel" will occasionally appear in the HUD. His appearance always causes a lot of excitement and joy in Tiny Empires 3000. When he appears, the "Onboard Entity" will ask you for a lot of of credits to trade for minerals and ore, but won't say what you will be getting in exchange. Definitely pay what he asks if you have the credits, as the Vessel is a bonus to the players. The Vessel can give you a boost in either ships or credits, if played properly. The Vessel makes random appearances - Unknown. There is no website yet available that predicts or records past Trading sightings. Note: You only get the "Mysterious Vessel" after the rank of Trader.

On arrival of the "Mysterious Vessel" there are some steps. They are:
* 1st month = 1st notice, warning about the Mysterious Vessels approach.
* 2nd month = nothing
* 3rd month = 2nd notice, warning again of the Mysterious Vessel.
* 4th month = nothing
* 5th month = 3rd notice (+ amount of credits asked)
* 6th month = 4th notice and payment

'''Vessel sightings'''
* 03/11/09 11:19 AM SLT
* 03/15/09 07.39 PM SLT
* 03/18/09 01:19 PM SLT
* 03/21/09 08:55 AM SLT
* 03/24/09 11:18 PM SLT
* 03/29/09 05:51 PM SLT - Jan. 3756
* 04/04/09 07:30 AM SLT - Aug. 3971
* 04/08/09 11:26 PM SLT - Dec. 3151
* 04/11/09 05:24 AM SLT - Nov. 3238
* 04/13/09 11:12 PM SLT - Feb. 3306
* 04/16/09 03:37 AM SLT - Mar. 3429
* 04/19/09 07.34 AM SLT - Jun. 3551
* 04/22/09 04:23 PM SLT - Jun. 3681

[Please don't put unchecked info on the wiki, some people rely on the info...]

A request from one of the readers here: Please list the in game Month/Year of the first notice when possible. Thank you.

====Offers of Mysterious Vessel====

''For one year, you may buy ships at a very low price.''

What to do: BUY ships for 12 turns (and sell them if you want to make profit)

The price of buying a ship will be incredibly low. Not totally free, so you will need to have some credits to buy the ships. If you don't have enough gold to buy, you can always buy/sell at the same time, but be careful the selling price doesn't drop too.

''For one year your ships will be worth more than normal''

What to do: SELL ships for 12 turns (and buy them back if you want to keep your personal fleet the same level)

Your ships are worth a lot with this bonus, but depending on your situation you may want to BUY and SELL at once so you do not lose total ships. However you will get a slightly higher profit if you sell all at once then buy back at a lower cost. This will take more time though it you are patient.

''Offers fuel pellets, your efficiency skyrockets.''

What to do: WAIT out the 12 turns to collect credits and BUY ships (when you can/want)

Your ship efficiency will skyrocket for 12 turns, and you will get a ridiculous amount of credits per turn. Like with any bonus that builds up your credits, buy ships when you can.

''Fleet efficiency has been raise by 100 credits/ship permanently.''

What to do: Nothing!

This bonus permanently increases your ship efficiency by 100cr/ship. You can check your ship efficiency by clicking on the Accounting tab in the HUD. When you get this bonus, you have nothing further to do. This is the best bonus in my opinion, and pays off the most in the long run.

''Purchased ships are very likely to contain surprises''

What to do: BUY ships for 11 turns

You will receive a surprise in credits which is close to the price of the ship you just bought. Sometimes "hidden chamber with a credit chip", or "transport previous owner", or "left-over cargo". Basically you are getting ships for free or incredibly cheap. Note that for the last month of the Trader bonus year, you don't get the bonus - hence you only buy for 11 of the 12 turns.

''ONE of your ships is worth more.''

What to do: SELL ships (and buy back if you want)

You receive messages that say, "Do you want to sell this ship? Perhaps it is worth something" during normally occurring ship buy/sell turns. Selling this ship may or may not give a profit. Usually it takes 3-7 sales to receive the "rare ship" worth more, but depending on how many it takes (the longer it takes to find, the more it seems to be worth), you will receive between 2 and 3 times what you paid the vessel in return. This is the only "Buy and Sell" option that you can log off and come back later and finish, as it does not finish with the trader year but will continue until you receive your pay out.

''You match velocities with the mysterious vessel. Your minerals vanish, to be replaced by.... nothing? Wait. Searching again, you find a liquid metallic sphere encased in a carbon shell. This must be purified Soleinium.''

Possibly the same substance that is used in high end [[upgrades]]?
''(Received by Buckaroo Mu, April 8th.)''

'''WARNING'''

If you have FATIGUE when the trader comes, be careful, after you pay him, you may zero out and not get any profits from fuel pellets! You may end up losing all your credits! Depending on which bonus you get or how bad your fatigue is, it is very risky!

Upgrades

2009-04-06T14:57:01Z

Blasius.Messmer: /* Upgrades */

=== Navigation ===
[http://malixu.me.uk/tinyempires3k/index.php?title=Ranks Ranks]

[http://malixu.me.uk/tinyempires3k/index.php?title=Information Information]

[http://malixu.me.uk/tinyempires3k/index.php?title=Terms_Used Terms Used]

[http://malixu.me.uk/tinyempires3k/index.php?title=Troubleshooting Troubleshooting]

[http://malixu.me.uk/tinyempires3k/index.php?title=Links_to_Outside_Resources Links to Outside Resources]

=== Upgrades ===

'''Some general information'''
* Upgrades become available based on the number of personal ships you own.
* The general rule is that with every six (6) ships you buy, an upgrade "unlocks" - it can take a while however to get the upgrade offer and it might be necessary to have some buy/sell activity to trigger the upgrade
* Each upgrade improves the fleet efficiency by 50 credits/ship (as far as we know now)
* The initial cost is the cost of the upgrade at the minimum number of ships (see below).
* If you choose to purchase the upgrade later its cost will be: number of personal ships x multiplier, so the initial costs are only when you buy the upgrade at the minimal required amount of personal ships

'''Overview of upgrades'''

The following upgrades are available:

{| border="1"
! No. Ships
! Upgrade
! Initial Cost
! Multiplier
! Eff. bonus (total)
|-
| 3
| Repair Bot
| 300
| 100
| 1,050
|-
| 9
| Cargo Pods
| 28,800
| 3,200
| 1,100
|-
| 15
| Recalibrate Engines
| 108,000
| 7,200
| 1,150
|-
| 21
| Scanner Upgrade
| 268,800
| 12,800
| 1,200
|-
| 27
| VR Rigs
| 540,000
| 20,000
| 1,250
|-
| 33
| Plasma cooled refrigeration system
| 957,000
| 29,000
| 1,300
|-
| 39
| Merchant grade navigation system
| 1,528,800
| 39,200
| 1,350
|-
| 45
| Install an Ops module
| 2,304,000
| 51,200
| 1,400
|-
| 51
| Engine upgrade
| 3,304,800
| 64,800
| 1,450
|-
| 57
| Cloaking device
| 4,560,000
| 80,000
| 1,500
|-
| 63
| Second engine upgrade
| 6,098,400
| 96,800
| 1,550
|-
| 69
| Low-power thrusters
| 7,948,800
| 115,200
| 1,600
|-
| 75
| SUV's
| 10,140,000
| 135,200
| 1,650
|-
| 81
| Hire task master/fleet manager
| 12,700,800
| 156,800
| 1,700
|-
| 87
| Automated inventory module
| 15,660,000
| 180,000
| 1,750
|-
| 93
| Modern repair bots
| 19,046,400
| 204,800
| 1,800
|-
| 99
| Armor plating
| 22,888,800
| 231,200
| 1,850
|-
| 105
| Light-weight armor plating
| 27,216,000
| 259,200
| 1,900
|-
| 111
| Navigational maps
| 32,056,800
| 288,800
| 1,950
|-
| 117
| Course-plotting system / Gravity well slingshot
| 37,440,000
| 320,000
| 2,000
|-
| 123
| Experimental fleet of many tiny ships
| 42,394,400
| 352,800
| 2,050
|-
| 129
| Replace the rest of your fleet with smaller, nimble ships
| 49,948,800
| 387,200
| 2,100
|-
| 135
| Shrink ray (Molecular Compression Tech)
| 57,132,000
| 423,200
| 2,150
|-
| 141
| Superconductor magnet sweep
| 64,972,800
| 460,800
| 2,200
|-
| 147
| Newer cloaking technology
| 73,500,000
| 500,000
| 2,250
|-
| 153
| Modern scanning system
| 85,466,400
| 540,800
| 2,300
|-
| 159
| Ultimate armor plating (from metallic liquid)
| 92,728,800
| 583,200
| 2,350
|-
| 165
| Engines converted to run on soleinium (metallic liquid)
| 103,488,000
| 627,200
| 2,400
|-
| 171
| Soleinium Circuits
| 115,048,800
| 672,800
| 2,450
|-
| 177
| Soleinium Engine - Jump Drive
| 127,440,000
| 720,000
| 2,500
|-
|}

''Remarks''

* The fleet efficiency can be improved further by:
** Buying colonies (each colony gives 100 credits/ship extra to a maximum of 300 credits/ship)
** Alliances: when on Broker level or higher, one can form alliances and create space ports, at four (4) space ports the fleet efficiency improves with 100 credits/ship
** Researching the same disaster 20 times for a 200 credits/ship bonus
** Permanent raise of efficiency by the Mysterious Vessel: each raise is 100 credits/ship, not known how many times this is possible (based on regular TE it can be maximized by 200 credits/ship)