A small cargo balloon drifting between two islands on a dotted line, sketched loosely with alternate route arcs.
Pencil study. This question is still open, so its picture is still a sketch.

Q65 · Chapter 09 · Routes & upgrades

The first trade route

What experience should unlock the first automated trade route?

Open

Where it stands

No answer recorded yet. This question remains open.

Recorded as: Open / not yet interviewed

The original question’s prompt

A manual delivery, resident rescue, ship upgrade, story event, money threshold, or another milestone?

Examples in a prompt are not decisions unless the answer chooses them.

Still to decide in this chapter

Automated trade routes (Q65–Q69) have not been discussed. Free placement versus fixed stations and what a developed ship automates are open; a cargo-recovery helper is one candidate.

In this chapter