Just a small observation. We're well on our way to unlocking our 3rd Admissions Center, which means we've got 2 equipped and have as a result 2 extra trade pacts to boost (supposedly) our base payment.

Now, beforehand, our base payment on a level 8 arti base were roughly between 115k-125k a day. After obtaining the 2 extra trade pacts it seems to be more like 117-124k for our base payment... with it being pretty evenly dispersed between those two numbers. The only outlier from this was today's base payment which was:
Shipment Claimed: Research Points: 1227, Artifact Points: 131143 (2.3255813953488% Cut).

When viewed as a whole, having 2 extra trade pacts will rarely nudge total base production from 5.5m to 5.6m (5.5m being what it was before the extra pacts).

I mention this purely because it's not a cheap module. It's upkeep is 4.8b. And it's impact seems minimal in view of that expense. I'm going to keep an eye on our future payments to see if it varies at all. Perhaps today's increase to 131k was because our 2nd pact finally qualified for the Chuhn Trade Comm ability.

Chuhn Trade Comm
Boosts base artifact output by 1%, plus an additional 1% for each continuously active trade pact (1 month or greater) you have with other legions.

Perhaps it was just because some of our players forgot to collect yesterday...

Anyone know what the Alumni Workshop or the Pedagogue Hab do yet?

If some people don't collect their shipment it saves up the un-collected AP for the next shipment and evenly divides it i'm pretty sure. Correct me if i'm wrong though.

So we still have yet to find out what the hall of discipline(30 planets invaded), Alumni Workshop(50 planets colonized, 2 Graduates), and the Pedagogue Hab(10 Graduates, 90 day tenure) do. My question is how close is everyone to any of these? We aren't very far unfortunately, the closest being the alumni worskshop with 22 planets colonized and 1 graduate. How about anyone else?

I'm betting the last three modules are artifact, mineral & planet invasion bonuses. +40 for the AP/MP and +10%(?) for invasion.

have gotten 3 this week. think they are just avoiding you petty.

Tried to get one of my friends to play. Apparently you are only given the chance to be a trainee twice before the game only allows you to join a legion as a member. Kind of a crappy deal if as a trainee you get assigned to a bad legion.

Yep, except that with unlimited reroll it'll guarantee a whooping amount of alts, switching legions until they get onto the right legion.

I believe number of members is the only requirement to gain a trainee (could be totally wrong on this). However a legion with 50 members all sub 100 is not going to do a trainee much good. Imo, trainees should only be assigned to the top 75 legions. Make it sort of a reward for moving up the legion ranks.