Pardus/Buildings

Buildings are the economic infrastructure of Pardus. The majority of them are owned by players, although there are exceptions to the rule. They take commodities that are upkeep and every building tick (6 hours) turn it into something else. The efficiency of the buildings increase by each production level they are upgraded, although the change is much less noticeable after level 5, where the main incentive is the extra production. Buildings require 500 AP to build as well as an amount of materials. A magnetic scoop may be used to carry extra resources if your cargo space is too small. The number of buildings you can have is controlled by the amount of experience you have. The requirements for the next one increase tenfold after getting the prior one. Also, some buildings such as military outposts and droid assembly complexes have experience requirements.

Experience required for number of buildings:

1. 100
2. 1,000
3. 10,000
4. 100,000
5. 1,000,000
6. 10,000,000

Not only building owners, but anyone wishing to trade with a building, can benefit from knowing the terminology used in their inventory charts. MIN means, when the building's supply of this resource is below this number, the building will no longer sell it. MAX means, conversely, above this amount of an item, the facility will no longer buy it.

These parameters can be customized to allow or disallow the interaction of other players; for example, the parameters of produced items can be set so that other players can buy the products and sell them elsewhere themselves, or restricted so that only the building owner gets to trade them.

Conversely, MINs of resources that are required for the upkeep of the facility are almost always set higher than the MAX. This prevents production from being shut down by other players buying the raw materials.

Building Construction and Upgrading

+1 Production Capacity: Cost	+10 tons Storage Capacity: Cost
To Production 2: 15 Energy 20 Metal 15 Ore	To 110 tons: 1 Energy 1 Metal 1 Ore
To Production 3: 24 Energy 28 Metal 24 Ore	To 120 tons: 1 Energy 1 Metal 1 Ore
To Production 4: 43 Energy 46 Metal 43 Ore	To 130 tons: 2 Energy 2 Metal 2 Ore
To Production 5: 75 Energy 77 Metal 75 Ore	To 140 tons: 2 Energy 2 Metal 2 Ore
To Production 6: 122 Energy 123 Metal 122 Ore	To 150 tons: 3 Energy 3 Metal 3 Ore
To Production 7: 182 Energy 183 Metal 182 Ore	To 160 tons: 4 Energy 4 Metal 4 Ore
To Production 8: 271 Energy 270 Metal 271 Ore	To 170 tons: 4 Energy 4 Metal 4 Ore
To Production 9:	To 180 tons: 5 Energy 5 Metal 4 Ore
To Production 10:	To 190 tons: 5 Energy 5 Metal 4 Ore
	To 200 tons: 6 Energy 6 Metal 6 Ore
	To 300 tons: 12 Energy 12 Metal 12 Ore
	To 400 tons: 18 Energy 18 Metal 18 Ore

Most production buildings can only be constructed on empty space. 'Harvesting' buildings like Gas Collector and Energy Well must be constructed on the appropriate resource type; similarly, Space Stations collect a small amount of the type of resource at their location.

Construction always requires Metal and Energy .

Buildings can be upgraded to produce more (Production Capacity), and to hold more ingredients, product and whatever the owner wants to store (Storage Capacity). Cost for additional +10 storage capacity generally increases by 1 of each resource, cumulatively, each two additional levels. Once every ~ten levels, there is an extra increase, as when increasing capacity from 130 to 160 tons, where the cost increases each level, rather than every other level.

Buildings can also be upgraded to defend themselves against attack better, see Pardus Instruction Manual, Section: Defense Modules

Commodities produced by or consumed by buildings

For more details on this topic, see Pardus/Commodities.

• Animal Embryos
• Battleweapon Parts
• Biowaste
• Chemical Supplies
• Droid Modules
• Electronics
• Energy
• Exotic Matter

• Food
• Gem Stones
• Hand Weapons
• Heavy Plastics
• Hydrogen Fuel
• Liquor
• Metal

• Nebula Gas
• Nutrient Clods
• Optical Components
• Ore
• Radioactive Cells
• Robots
• Water

Upgrade formulas

Building production increases 50% of base level each upgrade level. There are nine upgrade levels, so a level 10 building produces 9 x .5 = 4.5 x base + base = 5.5 x more than a level one building. Formulas and table below from Pardus Manual -> Reference -> Formulas -> Values for both production and upkeep are always rounded up.

"Production := round (basevalue * (1 + 0.5*(level-1)) Upkeep := round (basevalue * (1 + 0.4*(level-1))

Example: Space Farm with production level 7:

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Production	100%	150%	200%	250%	300%	350%	400%	450%	500%	550%
Upkeep	100%	140%	180%	220%	260%	300%	340%	380%	420%	460%

• Production(Food) := round (8 * (1 + 0.5*(7-1)) = 32
• Production(Water) := round (2 * (1 + 0.5*(7-1)) = 8
• Production(Bio-waste) := round (1 * (1 + 0.5*(7-1)) = 4
• Upkeep(Energy) := round (4 * (1 + 0.4*(7-1)) = 14
• Upkeep(Animal Embryos) := round (5 * (1 + 0.4*(7-1)) = 17

Warning: When baselevels are low (especially: 1), changes may only take effect after two upgrades due to rounding!"

Asteroid mine

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	1 1 1	9 2
2	1 1 1	14 3
3	2 2 2	18 4
4	2 2 2	23 5
5	3 3 , 3	27 6
6	3 3 3	32 7
7	3 3 3	36 8
8	4 4 4	41 9
9	4 4 4	45 10
10	5 5 5	50 11

Asteroid mines use F (), W (), E () to extract ore and gemstones from asteroids. The ore is needed for smelters to operate, to build many equipment types at starbases, and to build many buildings. Most asteroid fields will have these mines in them, as well as being surrounded by smelters. Essential for the early stages of economies, and any time construction or upgrading is taking place.

Construct in asteroid field. 15 Energy and 25 Metal to construct.

Battleweapons Factory

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	3 , 2 , 3 , 1 , 4 , 1	2
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 5000 XP, 30 Electronics , 60 Energy , 60 Metal required to build.

Brewery

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	4 2 2 2	4
2	6 3 3 3	6
3	7 4 4 4	8
4	9 4 4 4	10
5
6

Construct in empty space. 30 Energy and 25 Metal required to build.

Chemical laboratory

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	1 1 3	9
2	1 1 4	14
3	2 2 5	18
4	2 2 7	23
5	3 3 8	27
6	3 3 9	32
7	3 3 10	36
8	4 4 11	41
9	4 4 13	45
10	5 5 14	50

Chemical laboratories (chem labs) supply chemical supplies to several buildings. Many commodities rely on them.

Construct in nebula gas; 25 Energy and 15 Metal required to build.

Clod Generator

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	18 4 4	5
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 45 Energy , 30 Metal required to build.

Droid Assembly Complex

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	3 3 1 2 1	1
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 10,000 XP, 55 Electronics , 70 , 40 Metal required to construct.

Electronics Facility

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	4 1 2 3 1	6
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 50 Energy , 35 Metal required to build.

Energy well

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	1 1	6
2	1 1	9
3	2 2	12
4	2 2	15
5	3 3	18
6	3 3	21
7	3 3	24
8	4 4	27
9	4 4	30
10	5 5	33

Energy Wells provide a shield battery for pilots to recharge their shields instantly, at a price. The battery has a limited amount of charge, which can be increased by upgrading the storage capacity of the battery.

Rarely used as a major source of energy despite their high level of efficiency, as the energy produced is incredibly low in comparison to Nebula Plants.

Construct in energy fields. 20 Energy and 15 Metal to build.

Fuel collector

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	4 1	30
2	6 1	45
3	7 2	60
4	9 2	75
5	10 3	90
6	12 3	105
7	14 3	120
8	15 4	135
9	17 4	150
10	18 5	165

"In most areas these buildings are unnecessary, since fuel is nearly everywhere and can be easily obtained with a Fuel Scoop. However, in very heavily settled sectors the excessively high transit causes serious supply shortages of fuel. Without Fuel Collectors in these sectors the whole economic system would collapse at its very base!" - From Pardus manual.

Construct in empty space. 15 Energy and 20 Metal to build.

Gas Collector

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	2 2 2	20
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in nebula gas. 20 Energy , 20 Metal to build.

Handweapons Factory

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	3 2 1 3 3 1	2
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 5,000 XP, 20 Electronics , 70 Energy , 70 Metal required to construct.

Medical Laboratory

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	2 2 7 2	4
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 30 Energy , 30 Metal required to construct.

Nebula plant

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	2 2 3	35 4
2	3 3 4	53 6
3	4 4 5	70 8
4	4 4 7	88 10
5	5 5 8	105 12
6	6 6 9	123 14

Nebula plants are the biggest suppliers of energy apart from starbases. They use a small amount of food and water with some exotic matter to create a huge amount of energy. This energy is then used to supply buildings or planets. Because it needs E-matter, a supply that can only be gotten from one sector in a cluster, supplying them is sometimes hard unless you venture to the black market and buy it at 1,000.

Construct in Nebula gas. 5,000 XP, 50 Energy , 50 Metal required to build.

Optics Research Center

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	3 1 2 1	10
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 20 Energy , 50 Metal required to construct.

Plastics Facility

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	2 2 2 3 3	6
2	3 3 3 4 4	9
3	4 4 4 5 5	12
4	4 4 4 7 7	15
5	5 5 5 8 8	18
6	6 6 6 9 9	21

"A press made from the strongest titanium, located in the center of this intriguing construction, supplies the pressure needed for the final stages of the heavy plastics production. The building also houses material experts, who produce breakthrough after breakthrough in the field of material sciences." - From Pardus manual

Construct in empty space. 45 Energy , 30 Metal required to construct.

Radiation Collector

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	3 1 1	6
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 5 Electronics , 15 Energy , 20 Metal required to construct.

Recyclotron

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	3 1 5	7 5
2	4 1 7	11 8
3	5 2 9	14 10
4	7 2 9	18 13
5	9 3 11	21 15
6	9 3 15	25 18
7	10 3 17	28 20
8	11 4 19	32 23
9	13 4 21	35 25
10	14 5 23	39 28

Because of space farms small resource of water, and production of biowaste, recyclotrons are made to supplement the water supply and use the biowaste. Expect to see some of these around any starbase with space farms around. Recyclotrons are the primary of two users of biowaste, the other being Clod Generator.

Construct in empty space. 30 Energy , 40 Metal required to construct.

Robot Factory

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	4 2 2 1 2 2	3
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 15 Electronics , 65 Energy , 80 Metal required to construct.

Smelting facility

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	2 2 2 4	6
2	3 3 3 6	9
3	4 4 4 7	12
4	4 4 4 9	15
5	5 5 5 10	18
6	6 6 6 12	21
7	7 7 7 14	24
8	8 8 8 15	27
9	8 8 8 17	30
10	9 9 9 18	33
11	10 10 10 20	36

Smelting facilities (smelters) use ore from asteroid mines to turn into metal. Their metal production is comparably higher than their ore consumption, so there is usually some ore that doesn't go into the production cycle. This is what's expected, since many buildings and upgrade require ore. Smelters are usually found around asteroid fields with asteroid mines on them. They are also said to be a good source of income to have when high leveled.

Construct in empty space. 30 Energy , 50 Metal required to construct.

Space Farm

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	4 5	8 2 1
2	6 7	12 3 2
3	7 9	16 4 2
4	9 11	20 5 3
5	10 13	24 6 3
6	12 15	28 7 4
7	14 17	32 8 4
8	15 19	36 9 5
9	17 21	40 10 5
10	18 23	44 11 6

The space farm is most commonly used as a food source for starbases. They however do not produce much water so their biowaste often goes to a recyclotron. It is also used as a food source around areas that are far from the reach of a major food source so it's not needed for traders to bring in food from far away for a small cluster of buildings.

Construct in empty space. 15 Energy , 15 Metal , 10 Ore required to construct.

Buildings producing Black Market Commodities

Black Market Commodities

For more details on this topic, see Pardus/Commodities.

• Blue Sapphire Jewels
• Cybernetic X-993 Parts
• Drugs
• Exotic Crystal

• Golden Beryl Jewels
• Human Intestines
• Keldon Brains
• Leech Baby

• Rashkir Bones
• Ruby Jewels
• Ska'ari Limbs
• Slaves

Drug Station

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	1 3 4 3 3	1
2
3

Construct in energy field. 5,000 XP and 60 Energy , 60 Metal , 15 Slaves required to build.

Slave Camp

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	1 3 2 2 3	3
2
3

Construct in energy field. 45 Energy , 15 Ore , 30 Metal required to construct.

Dark Dome

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	1 3	10 4 10 10 10
2
3

Construct in energy field. 5,000 XP, 60 Energy , 50 Metal , 20 Robots required to build.

Leech Nursery

Level	Upkeep	Production
1	40 6 6 2 10	1 Leech Baby, 3
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space. 10,000 XP, 60 Electronics , 60 Energy , 35 Metal required to build.

Non-production buildings

Alliance Command Station

Level	Upkeep
1	6 , 2
2
3

Construct in empty space. 10,000 XP, 60 Energy , 50 Metal , 25 Radioactive cells required to build.

Military Outpost

Level	Upkeep
1	5 5
2
3
4
5
6

Construct in empty space, energy field, nebula gas. 10,000 XP, 70 Energy , 15 Hand weapons , 60 Metal required to build.

Trade Outpost

Construct in empty space, energy field, nebula gas. 10,000 XP, 40 Energy , 120 Metal required to build. Upgrades to Starbase. Upgrading to Starbase requires that the Trading Post be far enough away from other Starbases, Planets, Wormholes and Faction Outposts.

Starbase

Requires Trading Post. Upgrade of Trading Post; must be far enough away from other Starbases, Planets, Wormholes and Faction Outposts to be upgraded.

Multiple variations depending on whether it is a player starbase or faction starbase; all are color coded to faction.

Production is 400 Energy and 100 Animal Embryos, plus 125 of the resource normally gathered from the type of space it is in, i.e. if it is in empty space, it produces 125 Hydrogen Fuel. Upkeep is 300 Food, 200 Water; the worker population will fall if upkeep is halted, and production decreases if the population decreases below 100,000 workers.

NPC Buildings

Faction Military Outpost

"Faction MOs allow free passing of all pilots, whether they belong to their faction or to another, (or no) one." - Pardus Manual.

Faction Smelting Facility

Found in faction core areas, faction Smelters will always buy and sell at fixed prices; they are resupplied by player pilots only.

Gem Merchant

Trading excess gem stones for more valuable jewels.

Research Station

"In these impressive stations, special weapon and armor classes are developed and sold by teams of profit-oriented neutral researchers. A research station can be specialized on electro-magnetic weapons, electro-magnetic armors, organic weapons, or organic armors. Only about a dozen of these buildings exits in the entire universe, most of them in neutral territory. Those not in neutral clusters can be found in Keldon Empire space, supported by a large group of Keldonian top scientists." - Pardus Manual.

Cybernetic Station

"Allegedly only one such gigantic cybernetic station exists in the universe, somewhere in neutral territory. Erected by a peaceful race of cyborgs, certain cybernetic orbiters can here be assembled by visitors provided they bring along the necessary commodities for components, and some money." - Pardus Manual.

Souvenir Shop

Selling more obscure items in less accessible locations.

Pardus Border Buildings

Lucidi Military Outpost

"When the Pardus Cluster was discovered and wormholes were reopened by the Galactic Council, pioneers found these highly defended outposts blocking passage to all pilots on the cluster's every border, owned by a strange new race, the Lucidi.

Even the interior of the Pardus cluster is riddled with these constructions, blocking important routes. Fortunately, the Galactic Council found the means of allowing selected pilots to pass these blockades, provided in the Project PEAC Headquarters." - Pardus Manual.

Pardus Zone Buildings

(Premium Accounts only)

Lucidi Weapon and Armor Stations

Lucidi Weapon Station Lucidi Armor Station

Fully automated stations originally built to upgrade Lucidi pilots' equipment will trade their equipment for exotic crystals .

Protection Station

Created by the Galactic Council to protect shipping from the background radiation. Combat is disabled.