Been doing that for a while already. Grab the lower quantity (usually <500) commodities which you can find at outposts reliably enough (or in the case of insulating membranes pre-Trailblazer ships, at all at high-population outposts) with a T8 and use a bigger hauler for the bulk stuff.
This is expected, the strong links will go to the higher tier station, the ocellus (t3). So the Cori only picks up the planetary influence.
The problem for Frontier is that wouldn't solve the "I built an expensive starport around a 1-slot ELW and now it has no exports" problem that set off this whole set of changes in the first place.
Good to know that works as documented. Being able to take the weak links off a station is certainly useful if the planetary influence is something you want.
the first one grabs all the links. The second one only gets the body influences as links go to the oldest when there's a tie on tier.
This seems to be as expected - ports don't themselves generate weak links (but can generate strong links), which lets you put some safely compartmentalised sidelines in industrial/high-tech production up there.
I also have the first industrial outpost, I thought it would ruin my oil refinery market, but I was surprised that it does not have a weak effect on other stations. This made me very happy.
I was surprised because the infographic from Frontier in the patch notes, seems to suggest there would be a weak link from the T1 orbital port on body 1 to the surface port on the body 2.
Thank you!! Actually the water world isn't listed as terraformable. Maybe it's the presence of atmosphere? I want it to be the mention of life in the water, although that doesn't seem to be further boosting tourism like organic signals would.
The infographic that appeared with Trail Blazers update 3 shows that planetary facilities provide strong links only to the highest tier port, and not to any lower tiered ports. Is your system showing that isn't the case, that your lower tier port is also receiving strong links from either orbital or planetary facilities?
I missed T1 port on infographic, as people above confirmed - said system work as intended.
Checking Development now by completing a Government installation, which provides no economy influence and yet significantly improved the markets. Standard of Living also increased a lot but I don't think it effects markets much except gradually via population.I'm trying to test what Wealth does. I know it increases the size of the Economy slider, and maybe it somehow makes it easier to keep to the right and thus systems in Boom. But does it improve markets?
So I recorded several markets before-and-after constructing a Pirate Installation for 4 economy (and -4 security).
Here's a market whose economy values did not change from 1.00 Service:
Unchanged except for decreasing the liquor export. And that's likely from the security change.
This seems like strong evidence that Wealth doesn't generally improve export volumes and prices.
What about imports, though? That simple port has no imports because it's pure Service. So I checked the local primary, a Commercial Outpost with 1.00 Military and 1.20 Service (previously 1.00 Military 0.80 Service).
Mostly unchanged.
It stopped importing wine, which I think is from the stronger Service economy which is generally anti-import.
It pays more for tea! And it wants more algae and tea! Service economy wouldn't increase demand like that, so IMO that has to be from the Wealth (and sec?) changes.
It pays less for tobacco, who knows...
And it wants more basic medicines and progenitor cells:
And otherwise seemed identical I think.
So.
I don't think Wealth directly improves markets other than whatever effect it has on the system's Economy stat, and potentially making it easier to stay in Boom/Investment.
(most volumes had increased slightly a few hours later, but I think that's from gradual population growth which I didn't keep track of. Measured during the same tick though so I was slightly surprised).
I hope this is helpful and tbh I'm a little stir crazy from taking a LOT of raw data and, frankly, having very little understanding of the basic mechanics.
(I'd still love someone to explain like I'm 5 how links are "passed along" through a surface port to an orbiting port.)
How many pops does the system have? Around 70 mil?
