Trading Outpost - Counterfeit Money

[Strygald]

I haven't played this scenario much, but it seems you get this breakthrough every time... what's the point? doesn't this breakthrough make the scenario pointless, since the 'challenge' is to buy the deed for 1,000,000 galacticoins but then its so easy to get 5000 galacticoins for 10 synthetic fabric?

1,000,000 / 5000 = 200

200 x 10 = 2000 synthetic fabric to win

am I missing something? and I know I can just ignore the research, but i'm asking why its there if it makes the objective trivial

[Flin Fredstone]

The objective in the Trade Outpost at 1,000,000 coins is trivial even without. Perhaps on harder difficulties it's more of a challenge. Lower difficulties, in my opinion, should have it set to 5 mil or more.
But the Objective is to have an end screen and call it victory. You can just continue after and try to collect all research from trade ships and go bonkers on your settlement(s) if you so desire.
Trade Outpost scenario was mostly implemented for people who wanted to play a settlement for the long game and not get ended by a victory screen.

[Zep Tepi]

It is a machine that slightly more than doubles the worth of synthetics. They're worth 500 with and 240 without IIRC. Not that much of a cheat, really.

Added: Earplugs are the real cheat.

[Paraleo]

Originally posted by Strygald:

am I missing something? and I know I can just ignore the research, but i'm asking why its there if it makes the objective trivial

this scenario is as close as you can get to a sandbox mode as Flin said in a bit more words so if u like to play after you bought the planet that tech can be handy since salaries are increasing in time.