Notes on trade

Each colonist has a trading station for trade. The station has a hyper transmitter that lets the trade computer receive information even from the most remote planets.

Trade computer
The device is a statistical list of goods sold in the galaxy. The first column shows the product name; the screen can be divided into two equal parts. The left 4 columns relate to selling goods. The right 4 columns relate to buying goods. To profit from trade, find a planet where the sell price is lower than the buy price. The computer marks such deals in green.
Remember that during your flight you may be robbed by pirates or attacked by Tritites. We strongly recommend escorting a transport ship with at least one fighter.

Selling or buying goods at your station
To sell or buy goods you must go to the station personally and open the Territory menu. All existing deals are listed on the left; on the right first select a product in the top dropdown, then set buy or sell price, choose quantity, and save changes.

To sell (buy) something at your station:
1. Select a product at top right
2. Set sell (buy) price
3. Specify quantity to sell (buy)
4. Save settings.

If you buy goods, money on your account is blocked immediately. If you sell goods, the goods are blocked. Goods can only be bought and sold for credits.

You may list goods for both sale and purchase at once; goods for sale bring profit while goods for purchase are stored at the station warehouse.

You may list goods for purchase even if they exist nowhere in the galaxy; for sale you may only list goods present at the station at the time of sale.

Selling and buying goods at another station
To trade:
1. Dock any of your ships to the station where goods are sold or bought.
2. Open the Trade - Buy/Sell menu.
3. Select your ship from the ship list.
4. Select the product from the product list.
5. Enter quantity and complete the purchase or sale.
Instead of quantity you can use "Buy all" and "Sell all" - then the deal uses the maximum available quantity.

Trading with dolphins
An intelligent dolphin race exists in the galaxy. No one knows where they came from; they do not enter conflicts and ignore status or combat merits. All they care about is profit. If you sell something cheaper than someone buys, be sure dolphins will arrive sooner or later. They fly very slow ships but always execute instant buy-sell transactions. Scientists have only one theory: in fact not two ships fly but one - it simply exists in two points of the universe at once. As soon as a purchase happens at one station, a sale happens at the other. How this mechanism works is unknown; captured ships do not show such properties. Perhaps dolphins transfer goods using their abilities.