THE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FED2 - CONTENTS

Introduction

All About Fed

Fed is a Free Game

Why Fed2?

About Fed2 Commands

Rules and Regulations

About This Manual

Disclaimer

Getting Started in Federation 2

Logging on to Fed2

ibgames Accounts

Setting Up a Fed Character

Your First Steps in Fed2

Things You Need To Know At This Point

How to Make Friends and Influence People

Communicating with Others

Relaying Your Actions

Stopping Communications

The Noticeboard

Buying Drinks for your Friends

Socialising with your Friends

Bar Games

Getting Married

Style and Textile

Finding Your Way

Ground Travel

What You Can Do in Locations

The Solar System

Venturing Out of the Solar System

Customs Searches

Staying Alive

Teleportation

Fed and the Art of Spaceship Maintenance

Buying a Ship

Dude, Where's My Spaceship?

The Financial Side of Ships

Space Navigation

Fuelling Up

Trading Up

Ship Repairs

Jarrow Shipbuilders Pricing Schedule

Making Progress

Ranks

Taking a Short Cut

Score and Status

Self-improvement

Missions

Groat-making for Beginners

Cargo Jobs

Akaturi Jobs

Trading for Fun and Profit

Exchanges

Checking Prices

Warehouses

Being a Successful Merchant

Getting Out of Trouble

Table of Commodities

Futures Contracts

Trading in Futures

Purchasing a Futures Contract

What Happens Next

Becoming an Expert Trader

Glossary of Terms

Businesses and Factories

Incorporation

Getting More Money into the Business

Depot Maintenance

Deciding what Factories to Build

Building a Factory

Running your Factory

Business Management

Declaring Bankruptcy

Summary of Commands

Table of Inputs

Company Management for Manufacturers

Promoting to Manufacturer

Share Trading

Upgrading your Facilities

Maintaining your Facilities

Keeping the Shareholders Happy

Dealing with Disaffection

Attracting Investors

Declaring Bankruptcy

Summary of Commands for Manufacturers

Making Investments as a Financier

Promoting to Financier

Financiers and Futures

Bidding for Shares in Businesses

Buying Shares in Other Companies

Planetary Construction

How to Build Your Very Own Planet

Claiming a Stock Planet

Using the Fed2 Workbench

Submitting Workbench Files

Making Changes to your Customized Planet

Opening and Closing your Planet

Adding More Planets to your System

Planetary Economies

Introduction

Your Planet Displays

Adjusting Your Economy

Running Your Planet Remotely

Joining a cartel

Offering Jobs to Poor People

Making Money on Ship Sales

Setting Up a Repair Yard

Keeping Out Undesirables

Planetary Disaffection

Managing a Second Planet

Becoming a Gengineer

Planetary Infrastructure Builds

Introduction

Building Infrastructure

The Effect of Infrastructure Builds

Builds on Higher Level Planets

Complete List of Builds by Type

Complete List of Builds by Economic Level

Definitions

Joining the Plutocracy

Promoting to Plutocrat

Running a Catel

Cartel Builds

Blish Cities

Blish City Requirements

Objects and Mobiles

Finding and Using Objects

Encountering Mobiles

Ship Fighting

Violence and Mayhem

Arming Yourself

Ready, Aim, Fire!

Run Away!

Dying for your Cause

Repairing the Damage

Oddments

Money and Taxes

SpyNet

Resets and Maintenance

Account Maintenance

Miscellaneous Commands

Bugs and Errors