Space Race: How to Send Trade Rockets

[SillySMS]

Hello,

I'm largely happy with the new expansion. I have just one question.

How do I send rockets to fulfill other colonies' trade requests? I have a rocket landed, I have the resources, I agreed to send the rocket, I even have an (empty) trade pad, but I'm not seeing any option to load on the requested resource.

 

[Ivan_Haemimont]

There're 2 forms of trade in Space Race:

1. The Rival Colonies suggest trade routes. You can accept their suggestion and assign a Rocket to the trade route from the Diplomacy UI. (Open the Planetary View UI, select the Rival Colony and click on the Contact button.)

2. You can offer automated resource exchanges. To do so: Construct a Trade Pad, select import and export resource and desired trade amount. The game will then wait for any Rival Colony to offer an exchange of these resources, displayed with a notification. You can accept or reject the Rival Colony's offer by clicking on the notification. (If you accept the exchange, the Rival Colony will assign one of its Rockets and send it to your Trade Pad.)

 

[SillySMS]

Okay, I finally figured out what I was missing: selecting the rocket to be used in the left-hand pane after agreeing to the trade. Not 100% sure why I didn't pick up on that, though it does seem to be an uncommon type of UI element for this game.