Freezing Freighters for Fun and Profit
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I was just playing my last game, and I came across a new cheese that's just begging to see the light of day, so here goes.
When you blockade a planet that has trade going on with another planet, something interesting happens. All alien mini-freghters that arrive at the planet will stop dead in their tracks, never to move again. You can merrily remove the blockade once all the freighters have been stopped, and they will remain right there, one sector from the planet, generating just a hair less than their maximum possible monthly income!
There is a downside to this--the alien gets the benefit of it too, and not just you--but until this gets fixed, you have a way to max out all of your trade income from alien-established trade routes to yourself.
Enjoy, and don't get cheesed out
[I'm posting this because if it gets enough coverage, and if it gets popular, it has a lot better chance of getting fixed soon :P]
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When you blockade a planet that has trade going on with another planet, something interesting happens. All alien mini-freghters that arrive at the planet will stop dead in their tracks, never to move again. You can merrily remove the blockade once all the freighters have been stopped, and they will remain right there, one sector from the planet, generating just a hair less than their maximum possible monthly income!
There is a downside to this--the alien gets the benefit of it too, and not just you--but until this gets fixed, you have a way to max out all of your trade income from alien-established trade routes to yourself.
Enjoy, and don't get cheesed out
[I'm posting this because if it gets enough coverage, and if it gets popular, it has a lot better chance of getting fixed soon :P]
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