Avoiding Lost Res in Transport

[sandog]

Wolf917 on Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:05 pm

So it took me a while to learn this so I thought I would pass it on.

If you are transporting res around, either between your own planets or in a trade, whatever; dont fill them to their max carrying capacity or you will lose 4% to transport costs. If you are going to use all the space in a transport you need leave as much space on the transport as spice you need to make the trip to avoid the cost.

So if you are making a transport with 4 mitters which will cost 1470 spice. You need to leave space for 1470 spice on the transports to avoid losing 4% of your cargo. The simplest solution is the last type of res you are loading onto the transports - hit the max button next to it. The system will automatically only put in as much as it can take minus the space for the spice cost. Just FYI is you find yourself losing res to the 4% transport cost.