Industrial Services
Industrial services are the core of the crating system in game. For now only the first pillar, out of 4, is ready: the refining system
THE REFINING LOOP
Refining evolves around the Period Element Table and the 11 subcategories. These are grouped into 4 different refining processes. Look the table below:
As you can see, for example, ro refine a Noble Gas, you need to go on the Terminus Starbase in Earth orbit and place a Refining jon in the Cryogenic plant in there.
Be sure to bring there a pilot with a proper refining skill (see below) and some raw materialin the ship's cargo bay.
Once there you can LOAD the plant with the raw ores and start a refining job by paying some taxes. You will see the ongoing Jobs in your top menu so you can come back to the plant when the job is finished and pick up the refined ores.
Let's see it step-bystep
The pilot skills
Look at this sumary table
This table lists the skills needed for each of the Periodic Element table subcategory. Are listed in increasing order of difficulty as you can see also from the increasing requirements. For example you can see that to refine Noble gases you need just a level 1 pilot with two skills at 16 in order to get the Cryogenist skill.
Instead to refine radiocative unstable elements you need to acquire 'Particle Stabilizer' skill with a pilot level 9 minimum and with 24/25 attribute (int/per).
So first step is to go at the Vatican space academy and train accordingly.
The Planetary refinery
Now let's move to real refining. First of all let's see the Planetary Refining comlex. Open the moon HQ page and select the industrial service button on top of the menù or clicking directly clikcing on the Industrial complex icon.
Then You can chose one of your ships landed there, and the ores compatible with the process chosen will appear:
Now remember to chose the proper pilots among those landed at the HQ location or you wont be able to start the job.
If the pilot chose has a proper skill you can see the startjob button green with all the expected times, calculation etc....
As soon as you start the job, taxes are immediatly paid to the HQ or Starbase and your job will appear in the job list in the upper module card:
Finally upon Job completion you will see the results in the Module cargo space and you can directly unload them into the ship's cargo:
Starbase Refining
Starbase refining is very similar to the planetary one, be sure to have at least one ship docked at the starbase with proper pilot and cargo. And you can click on the "refine" button in the left panel:
Finally to operate refining in the starbases there are some small differences:
