lfm fighters

LFM works great to build fighters (provided you have that ability)...But what if you don't want to make a whole load of them?  Back in the original daze, I used to have various calc spreadsheets for this, so I dug one of them out for use in my current game...If you need 10 fighters, just find that line and the requirements are done for you.

The code "lfm" can be used over a planet that has you set as an ally, or at least if an official alliance is offered through the ship alliance friendly code by the player who's planet will supply the resources. To be able to use the "lfm" friendly code over an allied planet, the alliance does not have to be complete. As long as the races owning the planet has offered an alliance the "lfm" friendly code will work. The

If for example the Rebels want to build fighters over a Birdmen planet, only the Birdmen have to set an alliance with the Rebels. The Rebels don't necessarily need to ally the Birdmen for this to work. Once an alliance has been offered, the planet's friendly code does not have to be "lfm". It is impossible to use the "lfm" friendly code to beam up resources to build fighters with from enemy planets, even when both the planet's and the ship's friendly code are "lfm". The "lfm" friendly code will not work over unowned planets.

Yeah, i was just thinking you could do it manually by bringing up the minerals onto the ship.  Once you had them on the ship in the appropriate quantities your ship would make the fighters.