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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:

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	37,440,000	320,000	2,000
123	Experimental fleet of many tiny ships	42,394,400	352,800	2,050
129	Gravity well sling shot	?	355,000	2,100
135 (129)	Replace the rest of your fleet with smaller, nimble ships	49,948,800	387,200	2,150
140 (137, 135??)	Shrink ray (Molecular Compression Tech)	59,248,000 (57,978,400?)	390,000 (423,200?)	2,200
143	Superconductor magnet sweep	65,894,400	460,800	2,250
150	Newer cloaking technology	75,000,000	500,000	2,300
?	Modern scanning system	?	540,800	2,350
?	Soleinium metal armor	?	583,200?	2,400
?	Soleinium Circuits	?	583,200?	2,450
?	Engines converted to run on soleinium	?	720,000	2,500

Remarks

• From amount of ships needed 123, there is no cross-reference yet, so the amount of ships needed and price can be other than mentioned (up to 123 ships, the list is 100% accurate)

 (The accuracy may not be 100%, some players have mentioned getting these upgrades in a different order than it is listed, one example is getting the upgrade to sling-shot before upgrading the rest of the fleet to tiny ships. There may be 2 separate lists of upgrades, similar to TE where you could upgrade land separate from upgrades in living conditions. Just an idea... )

• 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
  • 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)