Trade Net

[Apostlyte]

I can not figure out how to use it, honestly I have searched here but not much else, looking for some direction :)

[Terrance]

Click on "L" and it will take you to a screen which includes the Trade Net. Please note that you MUST have "some" beacons set up in various systems in order for there to be anything but Achemedius listed in the Trade Net. The more beacons, the more offers! Cycle through the list of items and find an item where one system is selling and the another is buying. Make sure to check that the buyer is offering a good deal. Accept the selling and buying contracts for what you can afford, pick it up from the system selling and deliver to the system buying

[MustangMR]

At first you wont' see anything in it. You have to drop beacons in star systems and then you can see what they are selling or buying. It's organized by product though, not star systems, so you'll get quests to deliver x number of something, say ore. You can mine the ore yourself, or you can find someone selling it cheaper than you'll be selling it for. The key is that the more beacons you place in star systems throughout the galaxy the more you'll see in it.

[Apostlyte]

Beacons! I have not done that. I am assuming it is in the controls list somewhere? Anywhere in the system?

[Corvax]

You purchase beacons from vendors, then travel to a jump point and drop one at it. Only systems with Trade Stations will work for the Trade Net, but beacons are also fast travel points.

[MustangMR]

Yeah, this is a bit confusing at first, but you can buy beacons from the ship equipment vendor. Then you have to go one of the star gates in the system. Then a new icon will appear above the drone icon. Click it and you'll get a list of all the beacons you've placed, which at the start will be blank. There should be a button at the bottom of it to deploy a beacon in that system.

The beacons also let you jump between systems so once you drop a beacon in a system, that list of deployed beacons will let you jump to any of those systems instantly for the cost of fusion cells, I believe, also sold at the equipment vendor, but you start with 3000 so it will last you a while. If you mine wrecks in the systems you often get them when the wreck is finished.

I've probably got about 30 or 40 beacons deployed now. I drop them all the time to go back to an area I've got drones mining, and then just leave them to build my trade network up.

[Terrance]

Originally posted by Apostlyte:

Beacons! I have not done that. I am assuming it is in the controls list somewhere? Anywhere in the system?

You buy them from the ship equipment vendors. Your first one for Achmedius is free. Any system you've placed a beacon at will have an * by it's name. Also, beacons allow you to translocate to any system with another beacon via the jump gates. ( Have to be in close proximity)