No dark matter...!

[Fried Noodles]

Why am I not allowed to buy Dark Matter from the market?

I did the research to harvest it ages ago. My empire is aware of its existence.

The market doesn't allow you to buy/sell a rare resource unless you've collected at least 1 for yourself, it seems.

I only own about 40 systems in a large (800) galaxy. I have three black holes within my territory, and there are four open black holes within reasonable distance from my space that are unclaimed. None of them yield dark matter.

I foolishly went and attacked the xenophile Fallen Empire to learn their tech, but forgot that I couldn't actually use it yet because I don't have dark matter >:(

It's 2380 now. I should be able to just trade for it. Maybe get rid of all this zro and living metal that my empire is swimming in.

Boo.

I don't suppose there's another way to scrounge up some dark matter, is there?

[Kyllian]

Mods, or claim and conquer a black hole with it!

[�[Dire_Venom]�]

Once I researched the tech I could build darkmatter convertors, that might have been a mod though?

[Fried Noodles]

Originally posted by Kyllian:

Mods, or claim and conquer a black hole with it!

Yeah... That might have to be what I do. But strangely... I can only find ONE source of Dark Matter in my whole galaxy. And it's in the system of an empire that belongs to a Federation of four.

Trivial... But so tedious.

Also... Very weird. I can only find ONE L-Gate in my entire galaxy. I think something must be wrong with my game. :p

Originally posted by �Dire_Venom�:

Once I researched the tech I could build darkmatter convertors, that might have been a mod though?

Yeah... Pretty sure that's a mod.

I thought that the Fallen Empire homeworld would have some kind of building that generates Dark Matter, so I took it. But I misread the buildings. Even though one of 'em is a "Class-4 Singularity", no Dark Matter!

Then I had to shuffle around soooo many Bio-Trophies. I ended up just dumping them on one of the colony worlds I took from them (I only claimed two systems) and then giving them that system back (Keeping only the system that their original three homeworlds were in). :p

[Cryten]

If the game has progressed far enough for the ai to exploit dark matter you should be able to do a manual trade for 1 dark matter. From then on you could use the market to trade for it.