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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 / 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
158 (153?)	Modern scanning system	?	540,800	2,300
163 (159?)	Soleinium metal armor	95,061,600	583,200?	2,350
165	Engines converted to run on soleinium	103,488,000	627,200	2,400
171	Soleinium Circuits	115,048,800	672,800	2,450
?	Soleinium Engine - Jump Drive	?	?	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 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)