Post by Tenebrous Pirate on Apr 29, 2011 13:36:50 GMT -5
Tired of caching stuff on far-off, hard to reach, desolate planets?
Tired of constantly checking rumors at spice halls and palaces to make sure that those pesky treasure hunters aren't out pillaging your stockpiles?
Irritated that all these trade ports and merchant exchanges don't have any warehouse space available for rent to store your priceless hoards of ancient artifacts and carefully smuggled illegal weapons?
Well, fret no more! I have a working solution that can help you out!
Let me introduce you to the concept of Drydock Cargo Storage!
How it works: When you buy a new ship, it goes into the Dry Dock of the Military Base at the Stardock. So long as your faction rating with the occupiers of the planet stays high enough, you can access this Dry Dock and trade your cargo out with whatever ships you have stored there.
So! Buy a bunch of ships (as your extra money allows) that have cargo space of at least 100. When opportunities allow, upgrade these with various cargo pods. Then, just stash them at strategic Independent Stardocks around the map, and you can safely store goods in limited quantities.
How do you move your ships? Well, the easiest way to move a ship from one drydock to another is to buy a really cheap shuttle/ship at the port you want to move the storage ship to. Fly the shuttle to whatever starport you have your storage ship at, sell the shuttle, then fly the freighter back to the port your main ship is at. You lose a little bit of cash this way, but I just consider that a moving fee.
Voila! There you go!
Tired of constantly checking rumors at spice halls and palaces to make sure that those pesky treasure hunters aren't out pillaging your stockpiles?
Irritated that all these trade ports and merchant exchanges don't have any warehouse space available for rent to store your priceless hoards of ancient artifacts and carefully smuggled illegal weapons?
Well, fret no more! I have a working solution that can help you out!
Let me introduce you to the concept of Drydock Cargo Storage!
How it works: When you buy a new ship, it goes into the Dry Dock of the Military Base at the Stardock. So long as your faction rating with the occupiers of the planet stays high enough, you can access this Dry Dock and trade your cargo out with whatever ships you have stored there.
So! Buy a bunch of ships (as your extra money allows) that have cargo space of at least 100. When opportunities allow, upgrade these with various cargo pods. Then, just stash them at strategic Independent Stardocks around the map, and you can safely store goods in limited quantities.
How do you move your ships? Well, the easiest way to move a ship from one drydock to another is to buy a really cheap shuttle/ship at the port you want to move the storage ship to. Fly the shuttle to whatever starport you have your storage ship at, sell the shuttle, then fly the freighter back to the port your main ship is at. You lose a little bit of cash this way, but I just consider that a moving fee.
Voila! There you go!
