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EARTHDATE: June 6, 2010

Official News page 3


HOW GRAVING DOCKS TAKE COMMODITIES

by Hazed

Last week I explained what a graving dock was, and told you that to build one you need to transfer commodities into the dock's warehouse facility (see http://www.ibgames.net/fednews/100530/official02.html). Now I can tell you exactly how those commodities get to where they are needed.

Once you have issued the command to build the graving dock, you then type 'DIVERT'. After that, whenever any goods are delivered to any of the planets in the cartel's hub system, if they are required by the build then they will be diverted to the dock's warehouse. This will happen with goods that are sold to the exchange, and loads delivered by haulers. When the warehouse has enough of a particular commodity to complete the build, no more of that item will be diverted.

You can stop the diversion happening with 'UNDIVERT' - a rather peculiar word, but after a lot of searching on the net, it's the only thing Alan could come up with that worked as the opposite to 'DIVERT'. This turns off all of the diverting until such time as you turn it back on again.


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