Trade with rivals

[MylilPwny]

Hey,
I have not made one trade route in space race, because i am confused about it.

Look here:

When you get a trade proposal, and go to the rival to initiate trade, it will say: "We will send 50 electronics for 220 concrete"

This is extremely confusing. I look at the screen, i see this Indian woman, and i assume that when it says "We", it means them, the Indian woman. So i believe that she is offering 50 electronics for my 220 concrete. But since it is not clear, i have refused to make a deal. If i am mistaken, and it is me who has to give 50 electronics for 220 concrete, then i must say its a no deal anytime. When would it ever be okay to trade advanced resources for basic resources?

Please, can anyone confirm how this actually works?

 

[SillySMS]

You are always trading 50 resources. That offer is 50 of your electronics for 220 concrete from India.

It is up to you to determine if it's a worthwhile trade. In many cases, trading advanced for basic is not a bad idea, if your factory production outstrips your extraction, or you're expanding and need a large amount of concrete/metal.

 

[Promethian]

I tend to leave a few standing offerings of (my) food for (their) metal. Metal is the hardest mid to late bottleneck. Food on the other hand is easy to overproduce.

 

[Mauer]

You can change the trade amount when the rocket lands to anything lower than 50.

getting 220 concrete for 50 electronics may seem like a bad deal... except when it's not, if playing on a map starved of concrete deposits and a limited capacity to import it from Earth, it may be better to take it in a maintenance emergency situation, but you don't have to take offers you don't need; I have taken food for machine parts I had an excess of this one time when I forgot to plan ahead and brought too many colonists.

 

[Spaceracer]

I was confused about the exact same thing. The amount of 50 is always what you are sending in an offer from a rival is a good rule. I use that too now to stop the confusion and it works fine. Although i am a bit perplexed that the game creators couldn't make this slightly clearer. All it requires is a minimal adjustment and add in brackets the name of the faction that is sending which goods. Like: "We (your faction name) will send 50 (good logo) and they (rival faction name) will send xxx (good logo) in exchange.". Minor changes and takes away ANY possible confusion.

The game has a nack for bad or dubious wording. Yet the fix could be so easy. Wait until you get the "dust sickness" event. Now that baby will confuse you, and potentially cripple your game like it did mine...