IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FED2
PLANETARY CONSTRUCTION
HOW TO BUILD YOUR VERY OWN PLANET
When you reach the rank of Founder you become the owner of your very own star system, with a planet that other players will be able to visit for exploration and for trade. You have full control of the planet's economy and can manipulate production and consumption in order to make a vast amount of groats at the expense of your downtrodden populace.
You get promoted to the rank of Founder when your planet is linked into the game. It is up to you when that happens: you can stay a Financier for as long or as short a time as you like. When you promote, your company sells all the shares it owns, with the proceeds being added to the company balance. The company is then liquidated and a final dividend is paid out to all the company's shareholders. The portion belonging to the company's treasury stock and to you personally is transferred to the planet treasury as a starting balance. You should therefore remain a Financier long enough to ensure that your company has enough money to give your new planet a decent sized float.
You can either design your own planet using the Fed2 Workbench, or you can use one of the stock planets as supplied by Slarti's outfit on the space station Magrathea and make the whole process automatic. The only requirement for having a planet linked into the game at the moment is that you must be a Financier.
If you already know what you want to call your system and planet before you get to Financier, and you want to make sure that nobody else uses the name you have set your heart on before you are ready, you can reserve the name for a cost of two slithy toves. See http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/workbench/planetnames.html for details and to see the names already reserved.
