Trading Stations

posted on August 19th, 2010, 5:18 pm

When are the trading stations going to be put back into the game?

posted on August 19th, 2010, 5:19 pm

they can be modded in already

posted on August 19th, 2010, 5:23 pm

Oh.  In that case.  Are there any trading station mods?

posted on August 19th, 2010, 5:25 pm

Not that I know of, but the stock game should have a couple. All you'd need to do is copy a Mining Station odf, then copy the Trading Station-specific code from stock.

posted on August 19th, 2010, 5:35 pm

Any plans yet, when trading stations will reappear in FO?

posted on August 19th, 2010, 6:17 pm

i'm guessing at earliest fo4

posted on August 19th, 2010, 6:54 pm

At that time, can the resources be put back to what they were in the stock A2.  Or at least put Latinum and Biomatter back into the game?

posted on August 19th, 2010, 7:02 pm

they are ingame just renamed i think it has been said before that currently they either can not add new resources or they have no need to change them back

posted on August 19th, 2010, 7:04 pm

Any plans yet, when trading stations will reappear in FO?

When they're done

posted on August 19th, 2010, 7:14 pm

well i think latinum was renamed to tritanium, and biomatter was renamed supply.

i think trading stations would operate with the current 3 resources, di tri and supply. and that latinum would come under the general heading of supply, as supply is very general.

stock A2's metal cant be used for tri i dont think, maybe cos the game wants metal to come from the orbital planet thingy mechanic.

posted on August 19th, 2010, 7:26 pm

I've built a few metal asteroids that are not planets per say.  They worked just as well as the planets.  I would also like limited resources, but instead of just plain running out, it slows down the amount you can mine per second.  Just like the stock armada 2.

This is starting to look more like a feature request thread.

posted on August 19th, 2010, 7:42 pm

metal is currently used by the borg for there connection thingie and can be added to trade but as tritanium is the renamed latinum then that will act as latinum for ferengi trade (hard coded i think)

posted on August 20th, 2010, 12:56 pm

Oh, please, no trading.  I liked it in Age of Empires(?) but i hated it in A2.  Apart from the annoying bugs such as ferhengi ships getting stuck (which i'm sure the FO team could squish) i don't really feel it would add to the FO experience... not unless there was a paradigm shift in gameplay to make trading a fundamental part of FO.  Works for Federation of course, but for the other races, i think not.