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Deciding whether to survey a group of moons (to collect extra income from them every turn) or to let them build up over
time (and collect EPs from them all at once with a prospecting ship) is largely a matter of personal taste. Surveying the
moons guarantees the income until the site is conquered, and a few EPs early in the game are usually better than a lot
later on. However, you cannot take advantage of certain prospecting bonuses, such as those granted by high crew
levels, if the site has been surveyed.
Moons are listed on your Income List along with the current value of your sites and the terrain in their hex. For
example, you might see "PL+AF, 3M", which means "Planet in an Asteroid Field with 3 Moons." (These terrain
descriptions are described in the next chapter.) If the moons have been activated by a survey ship, they will be listed with
the letter "A" instead of "M", e.g., "PL+AF, 3A". The amount of EPs they added will be included in the value of the site on
the Income List.
2.9 Raiding Sites
Raiding is yet another way to earn money. Starships can be ordered to raid by using the RADx order described in
Chapter Six. They must be adjacent to the site being raided and certain other conditions must be met, as described in that
chapter.
If a site is successfully raided, the income it would normally produce on its owner's next turn (for whoever
happens to own it at the time) is brought to your Corporation instead. These resources will not be available until your next
turn is run (unlike prospecting, which is available immediately) as it is "in transit" during the intervening period. This money
is guaranteed to arrive, however-there is no way for another player to steal it back or delay its arrival. It is this guaranteed
status that makes raiding so popular.
A site can always be captured between the turn you capture it and your next turn, when it would produce income for you
for the first time. Raiding income, on the other hand, cannot be captured or stolen.
One of the main uses of raiding is to guarantee yourself a site's income. You can even raid your own sites if you wish to.
However, raiding is not automatically successful, and it does cost your ship a valuable hex of movement. You would
normally only do it to a site you think you will lose between turns, or an enemy site you can't afford to capture for one
reason or another. Other reasons for raiding may become clear as the game progresses.
If a site has been raided, it will be shown on your Income List with an ampersand ("&") to indicate this. It will not
provide any resources to you on the turn you see this symbol, but if you retain control of the site and it is not raided again,
you will collect income from it thereafter.
If you capture a site that has been recently raided, you will be told this fact at the moment of capture. The site will
not produce income for you on your next turn due to this "recently raided" status.
The computer's record of a site's raided status is not cleared until someone sees the site on their Income List (with the
"&" character). If a site changes hands every turn for several turns, and no one ever sees it appear on their Income List,
it will not become "un-raided." It is rare for a site to change hands this regularly, however.
An unowned site is another example of how this might come into play. You can raid an uncontrolled site once, but since
no one owns it, it will not appear on anyone's Income List, and hence its raided status will never be cleared.
Raided sites owned by computerized Corporations have their raided status cleared when the Next Turn Generator runs
at the end of each game turn. See Chapter Nine for more on this procedure.
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