Well... It's a space simulator... to the extreme. You start out as a humble pilot. You have a old medium weight fighter/trade ship. (it sucks... hard.. It's slow, and has no guns, and goes BOOM easily) You can trade you way to power... seriously... Go to a power plant. Pick up energy cells, drop them off at say... a silicone mine... Pick up a load of silicone and take it to a crystal fab plant. Pick up some Crystals from teh fab plant, and go back to the Power plant. Rince and repeat. (I dont think the starting ship is big enough to hold silicone tho) But basically each space station needs certin items. The more it needs them... the more it pays. If it's 'product' isnt high in demand (aka they have alot of it) they sell it for less. If they dont have much... they sell it for more than it's worth. Or you can go find a pirate, and... persuade... him to eject from his ship, and... gain wealth that way. And once you have more than one ship... you can get buy Trade computers, that you can get ships to trade within a system... and once they get so advanced... within the galaxy... and even more adavanced... they use the Jump drive... And one you aquire even MORE wealth, you can BUILD your own space stations... and MAKE your own resources... and create a 'circle of wealth'. AKA: Powerplant, Silicone mine, Crystal Fab, Cahoona bakery, cattle ranch. You build all those stations, and link them together in a complex. You have infinite resouces... you just need to find someone willing to buy yours stuff... XD As you expand your wealth more, you can buy stations to build weapons... and With a new patch.. you can buy a station that builds ships. You can buy ships that are good for nothing more than scouting... to ships That can carry 100 Heavy Fighters. (and yes the AI is there. you select a 'wing' and say 'undock and KILL' you see a swarm of ships undock and attack) Now your talking... BILLIONS of ingame money... and let's just say... your first 10million will take you probibally over 48 hours ingame... ;) It takes around 50million to get that 'loop' And the ship that can carry 100 ships costs 100million. and each ship in it... costs about 4million. Also, you can make missles... missles are awosome... There is nothing like X. EDIT: http://www.egosoft.com/ EDIT2: http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=2810&cc=US EDIT3: And if you wanna be stupid... if you got more money than you know what to do with. Buy 100 of the carriers... and fill them up... declare war on all factions... and destroy the universe... buhahaha! (yes you can do it)
PSN ID: Kwaad
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