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Colonies

2009-05-26T16:35:00Z

MontyShackleton: /* Colony Classes */

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====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)480
| Man-made
|-
|
|Plutonic Moon
|
|
| Max: ''480 PERS! had 2203 total!''
| 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)480 PERS! had 2203 total!
| 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 "?".

Terms Used

2009-05-21T09:02:09Z

MontyShackleton: /* Ally */

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=== Commission ===
Commissions are credits paid to, or paid by, a player each month based on the ships possessed. A player receives commissions from their subordinates, and pays commission to their superior.

=== Credit ===
The unit of finance in Tiny Empires 3000.

=== Fleet ===
The ships owned by a player. There are two totals involved: personal ships owned by the player, and total ships owned by that player and all of their direct and indirect subordinates. Some game functions, notably [[Ranks|rank]], reference total ships; others, such as colonies, reference personal ships.

=== Guild Dues ===
These are deducted during every December turn. Dues are a percentage of the commissions earned during the year now concluding. The percentage increases as a player rises in [[Ranks|rank]]. If there are not enough credits to pay dues, a ship will be sold to cover the balance due.

=== Subordinate ===
The persons immediately below a player in the guild hierarchy. Commissions are received from one's subordinates. Also, a player with subordinates receives bonus credits every other year in January.

To be able to get a subordinate, you can't be more than 3 ranks above. For a new player (pilot), you need at least 5 ships to get him/her as subordinate. To change superior, the superior needs at least 10 ships (Courier). Subordinates will be lost when a superior has a rank that is over 5 above his/her subordinate. The subordinate will be without superior until he/she "hooks up" with someone else.

=== Superior ===
The person immediately above a player in the guild hierarchy. Commissions are paid to one's superior.

A player can give ships to others who are 1 rank above or (at most) 3 levels below. An exception is giving to a Runner with less than 5 ships: trying to give ships will lead to the message that the player is "too inexperienced" and transferring ships won't work.

=== Ally ===
As soon as someone is Broker, there is the possibility to ally with a maximum of 4 allies. They cannot be a direct superior/subordinate. They also have to be Broker or a higher rank, but as soon as you have allies, you won´t lose them when you drop rank below Broker. Forming an alliance goes about the same as getting a new superior: you stand close to the person you want to ally with. As soon as the offer for an alliance comes, you request an alliance (beware: if the person you want to ally with is higher in rank, you first have to reject the offer to switch superior!). The request is sent to the other player, who can accept the alliance the next turn (or not, but then you can save yourself the trouble).

As soon as the alliance is formed, you can open a Comm Port (go to alliance tab and check the option). You get a couple of options:
*send credits to your ally;
*build a Space Dock (you only have to do that once);
*transfer colonists to your ally.

Building Space Docks with all 4 of your allies gives you a bonus of 100 credits/ship (total, not 4 x 100). Another advantage, apart from the possibility to send credits or colonists, is that your ally can investigate a sabotage, when that has hit you. There is not a 100% guarantee that it will catch the saboteur, but when more of your allies investigate, the chances are fair that you get your ships back.

=== Fleet efficiency ===
Upgrades to your fleet, that improve your income in credits per ship. See [[Upgrades]] for more information about the upgrades you can obtain. As far as we know now, it looks like every 6 personal ships unlock a new upgrade, starting at 3 ships.

Latest info shows that the fleet efficiency can be:
* 2,500 by upgrades
* 300 for colonies (100 for each, to a maximum of 300)
* 200 for finishing research of any kind
* 100 for establishing four (4) spacedocks with your allies
* 100 (or maybe even 200) through an option at the Mysterious Vessel "Black Diamond" (100 credits/ship forever)

That makes a total of 3,100 without the last, which is a "bonus" that can't be influenced by doing something (except, of course, paying the Mysterious Vessel!).

Talk:Terms Used

2009-05-21T08:57:54Z

MontyShackleton: New page: I believe you can't ally with a direct superior/subordinate. Is this correct? and should it be included?

I believe you can't ally with a direct superior/subordinate. Is this correct? and should it be included?