Yeah, Advent are so good they dont even need the benefit of getting both extra cash and ressources.

Further down the tech try from trade depots, there is an ability to switch your depots back and forth from trade to refineries.

if you switch your trade depot to 'refinery' mode - does it stop all trade traffic for the system? i.e. can you have two trade depots with different settings.

Best of all, you can use the Advent trade depots on only your Ice or Volcanic planets, so as to collect extra crystal or metal when you need it at the absolutely minimum cost in lost trade. The other races have to permanently commit those logistics slots to the refinery.

The disadvantage the Advent suffer is that they cannot use resources from asteroid belts. When the trade depot is functioning as a refinery it doesn't send ships outside the gravity well.

Each trade station works just like a refinery except that it does not send ships to asteroids outside the local gravity well. The benefit is approximately 0.21 per asteroid with no research bonuses, which is another reason why I prefer to use refinery mode on Ice planets when short of crystal and Volcanic planets when short of metal.

Asteroids can support between two and four refineries, and the same limits apply to the Advent trade stations. If you need more resources you should check and see if there is room for another trade station at an Ice or Volcanic planet.

your not so bright are ya? 2 ports, 1 for cash 1 for resources