tombomb318 wrote:
i have not checked out the new game but what i know form the old one is that auto trade is the thing one the left side u set up between 2 pors or a port and a planet
No that's a traderoute.
And autotrade is where you buy a cargo ship for a planet and then you enter the sector name for a port for each of the items you want to trade from your planet. Then once every 30 minutes the planet will trade those items and bring back CREDITS.
It's totally automatic and runs even when you are offline. You can call up the autotrade list and it will display every cargoship, the hull and energy tech and how much money was gained and what was traded the last time a trade happened.
You can check your logs for more information about the autotrades. If someone blockades the port by dropping in fighters or mines this will be reported in your logs because you cannot trade at a port with enemy fighters or mines in the sector.
It's a way of gaining money without doing anything. We were wanting to have programmable autotrades with real cargoships roaming around for people to destroy but that will have to wait until after we make this release (coming real soon now).