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
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 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
Run Away!
Repairing the Damage

Oddments

Money and Taxes
SpyNet
Resets and Maintenance
Account Maintenance
Miscellaneous Commands
Bugs and Errors


Fed2 Manuals and Maps

Help and information page

Fed2 home page