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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares/Freight training (edit)
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==The basics== | ==The basics== | ||
Freighters have 2 functions: | Freighters have 2 functions: | ||
*Moving food between colonies. 1 Freighter can carry 1 unit of food. Food transfers are instantaneous, but the operating cost is 0.5 BC per Freighter per turn in which food is | *Moving food between colonies. 1 Freighter can carry 1 unit of food. Food transfers are instantaneous, but the operating cost is 0.5 BC per Freighter per turn in which food is transfered. | ||
*Moving people between colonies. You need 5 Freighters to move 1 "person" (each "person" icon represents 1M colonists). Unlike food transfers, population transfers take a non-zero time that depends on your level of drive technology. For example the upgrade from Nuclear Drive (1 parsec per turn) to Fusion Drive (2 parsec per turn) halves the time for most transfers. Each Freighter used for population transfer costs 0.5 BC per turn while in flight; that's 2.5 BC per "person" transferred per turn | *Moving people between colonies. You need 5 Freighters to move 1 "person" (each "person" icon represents 1M colonists). Unlike food transfers, population transfers take a non-zero time that depends on your level of drive technology. | ||
For example the upgrade from Nuclear Drive (1 parsec per turn) to Fusion Drive (2 parsec per turn) halves the time for most transfers. Each Freighter used for population transfer costs 0.5 BC per turn while in flight; that's 2.5 BC per "person" transferred per turn until they arrive, and people don't pay any tax while in transit (they're in suspended animation). | |||
The operation of freighters is invisible - you give them an order and they just do it, without appearing on the Galaxy screen (or any other). That means that you can't change their orders while they're in flight. | The operation of freighters is invisible - you give them an order and they just do it, without appearing on the Galaxy screen (or any other). That means that you can't change their orders while they're in flight. | ||