X3:Reunion Manual - Steam

WHERE TO BUILD YOUR FACTORYWhen you set up your factories you should manufacture a product which is in demand in thatsector. If there are too few Solar Power Plants to supply the energy resources or evenenough local Crystal Fabs to supply the power plants, this is when you may consider settingup multiple factories, which can then produce these resources.There are many factors to be considered when setting up multiple factories, the productselling prices and resource buying prices, the distance to available resources and the localdemand for your product. This is best done after you have checked what is beingmanufactured in the economy of nearby sectors.You will have to set up the prices and decide if your factories are restricted to buying theirresources exclusively from your factories and/or for them to be supplemented by localsupplies. Another very effective way to meet your energy needs, while increasing your profitsis to set up a factory loop.Factory sizes of Small (1xS) Medium (2xM) and Large (3xL) provide the opportunity to setupresource to supply those factories with quantities that meet their needs. An L sized factory willhave the production of three standard factories and will require proportionally the sameresources. A larger mine will also produce three times the resources of a typical mine.Location, location, locationFactory placement is all about finding the most profitable place to market your product. It isbetter to identify a need that you can fulfil by building a factory for, than to find a place that willbe best for the factory product you want to sell.Low Priced Food = Average profitsA good first factory in the Argon sectors bordering or in Boron space is a Delexian WheatFarm and it is best placed where there are a reasonable number of Cahoona Bakeries in thesector. There are no other Delexian Wheat Farms in the vicinity but choose one with nearbyEnergy supplies. Another good starting product would be BoFu in Kingdom’s End or BoGas inOcean of Fantasy, which has a number of badly supplied BoFu plants.Mid Priced Silicon = Good profitsThere is good demand for Silicon in Argon Prime and most hi-tech production areas, but noasteroids in it, so locating a high yield asteroid South of there with nearby Energy supplies isimportant. A good place for one of these is in Ore Belt where there are plenty of asteroids andsome good yields and high stocks of Energy in the same sector. A Silicon mine can produce300+ Credits profit per unit, when factories have low stocks and are buying at 700+.High Priced Shields & High Tech – Very high profits1GJ and 10 GJ Shield Production Facilities are best placed in sectors with nearby EquipmentDocks. So a good place for one of these would be Home of Light as you then have threesectors nearby that have Equipment Docks i.e. Argon Prime, Red Light and Cloud BaseSouth East.Always check out the local demand for resources before you build factories. If they are foodfactories make sure they are needed. In many Argon sectors there is a shortage of CahoonaBakeries and most races have insufficient Energy Plants, Silicon/Ore Mines and Crystal Fabs.As mentioned the Boron sectors are good places for Delexian wheat. Additionally by placing afactory near one that already sells the same product will allow you to entice some or a lot ofits customers to your factory, especially if you selling cheaper.41If you buy a Large factory complex that has the same production of 3X factories, it is veryimportant that you checkout the market in the sectors you might want to put it in, as the outputwill be high, your profits can be very high if there is good long term high demand in that sectorand in the sectors next to it.