Economy

Economy determines how wealthy a system is as well as what what categories of goods local merchants prefer to buy and sell. A system's economy cannot normally be known until entering the system, although building an economy scanner will allow seeing other system ratings while on the galactic map.

Economy Levels

A system's economy level determines the amount of local wealth.

The following sequence is taken from the game data.

Sequence	Low	Medium	High
1.	Struggling	Comfortable	Wealthy
2.	Fledgling	Balanced	Prosperous
3.	Unpromising	Promising	Advanced
4.	Declining	Developing	Affluent
5.	Failing	Medium Supply	Booming
6.	Destitute	Satisfactory	Flourishing
7.	Low Supply	Sustainable	High Supply
8.	Unsuccessful	Adequate	Opulent

Economy Classes

A system's economy class determines what local merchants prefer to buy and sell.

The following sequence is taken from the game data.

Sequence	Technology	Mining	Trading	Manufacturing	Advanced Materials	Scientific	Power Generation
1.	High Tech	Mining	Mercantile	Manufacturing	Material Fusion	Research	Power Generation
2.	Technology	Minerals	Trading	Industrial	Alchemical	Scientific	Energy Supply
3.	Nano-construction	Ore Extraction	Shipping	Construction	Metal Processing	Experimental	Fuel Generation
4.	Engineering	Prospecting	Commercial	Mass Production	Ore Processing	Mathematical	High Voltage
System Colour	Light Blue	Orange	Green	Yellow	Purple	Dark Blue	Red
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Additional information

• The Economy Level and Class sequences were extracted from the 2.44 version of NMS_UPDATE3_ENGLISH.MBIN game file by PC player Ertosi.