What Happens While You Are Away

What It Is and Why It Matters

The server keeps running confirmed processes: trips, mining, refining, assembly, surveys, and assignments. The market lives on too: captains and other companies trade, and port authorities update their orders. When you return, you get the current state and can ask for a short report.

This does not mean the model keeps thinking on its own between chats. The server clock logic and the AI's reasoning are different things. The deputy will not make new decisions without you.

Example

"What happened while I was away?"

The deputy reads the server summary and shows facts and estimates, current tasks, and news separately.

What to Do While the Ships Are Busy

The deputy can read a management review: fleet utilization, cash profit, the company's specialization, other companies' open listings, open contracts, headlines, recipes available at a free berth, demand by region, and whether a survey can be started from here.

"All ships are busy. What can we think through right now?"

This is read-only: nothing is bought, flown, published, or started. The lines of the review are not orders, and the server does not invent placeholder tasks.

Limits and Risks

• The server does not send messages to a closed chat. The report appears when you ask or when you return.
• The server closes out events that have come due on the next request to the game, so the time in the report may be slightly later than the time of the event itself.
• Open orders may fill, and other companies may take the bid you were counting on.
• A contract whose deadline has passed closes by itself and the reserve is returned. If the cargo is already on the ship, the deadline does not close it.

Common Mistakes

• Expecting the deputy to keep thinking about your goal without an assignment.
• Treating a trip's result as fact before the sale report arrives.

What's Next

Set up limits before you delegate recurring trades.