IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FED2
PLANETARY ECONOMIES
JOINING A PLAYER CARTEL
A cartel is an economic grouping of planets that trade with each other, share a workboard for hauling jobs and cooperate to further the interests of all the members. The head of a cartel is a Plutocrat.
When your planet is linked into the game it is placed in the Sol cartel. The owner of this cartel is a hands-off kinda guy, and the tax rates, import duties and so on will never change. (The rates will be set soon...) There is no membership fee to join the Sol cartel.
You should start to shop around for a more active cartel to join as soon as you become a Founder - in fact, you should have formed links with high-up players much earlier in the game, so with any luck you will have a slot waiting for you.
To see a list of all the cartels in the game, type 'DI CARTELS'. 'DI CARTEL' gives you the details of the cartel you are currently in, including a list of the member planets. For the info on another cartel, without actually having to fly there, use 'DI CARTEL cartelname'.
To join a cartel, use the command 'JOIN CARTEL cartelname'. You must be somewhere in your star system. This puts your request into a pending queue to be dealt with by the Plutocrat at his, her or its leisure. The owner of the cartel can accept or reject your membership bid, and whichever they do, you'll be informed of the result. If you're not in the game at the time, you will find there is mail waiting for you when you return - type 'MAIL' to read it.
The cartel owner may set a membership fee for the cartel, which will be taken from the treasury of your highest-level planet on joining; alternatively, she may give out a joining bonus which will be paid when you join.
If you manage to annoy the Plutocrat then your star system can be expelled from the cartel, in which case it is put back into the Sol cartel.
Cartel Mail
If you want to leave a message for one of your cartel-mates, you can do it using cartel mail. You can send the message to an individual, or to all of the cartel members. The command is 'SEND MAIL playername message' where 'playername' is either the name of one of your fellow cartel members, or the word 'all', and 'message' is what you want to say. You must be on one of your planets to send cartel mail.
This facility is not available to members of the Sol cartel.
You are notified when someone sends you mail - if you're not in the game, the notification will show up when you next log on. To read your mail, type 'MAIL'. When you read your mail, it is deleted.
Be warned - over-using the function to spam the cartel members is likely to get you kicked out by an irate Plutocrat!
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