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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 can wear if without fear of being penalized. If you do buy a colony, then you have to keep monitoring the HUD every turn to avoid missing disasters, like with the Federation HUD, but with the potential for more credits (gold). So, it's a trade off.
- 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 chose 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 a colony only once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
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:
| 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""
| Class | Name | Colonist Capacity | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| "1" | Terrestrial Planetoid | 2,000 | 437,500'
1 Terrestrial Planetoid Mining asteroid Orbital Laboratory 2,000 437,500 2 Advanced Orbital Laboratory Medium Planetoid Large Mining asteroid 2,500 1,417,500 3 Iron-Rich Asteroid Orbital Vehicle Small Icy Moon 3,200 3,937,500 4 Carbonaceous Asteroid Icy Moon Orbital Spacedock 4,000 8,859,375 5 Orbital Base Volcanic Moon Silicate Asteroid 6,000 18,000,000 6 Large Volcanic Moon Magnesium Asteroid Advanced Orbital Base 9,000 50,000,000 7 Rocky Moon Binary Iron Asteroid Colony Spaceship 17,000 122,500,000 8 Advanced Colony Spaceship Plutonic Moon Iron Asteroid Field 30,000 242,000,000 9 Iron-Nickel Moon Colony Starship Volcanic Dwarf Planet 50,000 225,000,000 10 Small Volcanic Planet Advanced Colony Starship Selenic Planet 125,000 484,000,000 11 Small Volcanic Planet Advanced Colony Starship Selenic Planet (Yes, the same names) 250,000 800,000,000 12 Starbase Xenolith Planet Waterworld Planet 240,000 800,000,000 13 Advanced Starbase Telluric Planet Yttric Planet 430,000 2,048,000,000 ?
Advice on colonies Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.
Possible actions
Research
No data available on what the effect is in the long run, some people have started investigating. Estimated amount of researches before "payout": 20. FatigueFatigue 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 fleet efficiency which affects your income. It resets back to zero once per day (at around 8 - 10 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. PuzzlesTo get a solution for the puzzles, check out the website: http://www.erzsabet.com/TE3000Calc.html Unity questions When in doubt, just say no There are a couple of unity questions we know of now. They are:
Mysterious vessel (Black Diamond)A "Mysterious Vessel" will occassionaly 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.
Vessel sightings
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 effiencecy has been raise by 100 credits/ship permantely. 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 occuring ship buy/sell turns. Selling this ship may or may not give a profit. Usually it takes 3-7 sales to recieve 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 recieve 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 recieve your pay out. 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! |
