Buy a Station which produces Air/Water

[Accolon]

Did anyone find such a station and where?
Ive checked half a dozen systems already and couldnt find a single one. I bought station which can produce URAN/ORE/Minerals but no a single Water/Air Station. ...kinda sux

[Ahaneon]

Have no places on my map to buy a water/air production settlement. Outside of Sol the map is randomized so luck might be a factor?

You can't send goods from one star system to another.

Also i have noticed if you are in another star system, that the production stops everywhere else.

[ranythebard]

Nope, after travelling 23 systems in main campaign, all stations that produces water and oxygen are not purchasable. And transport lines only work within each system.

First visit to any system you can purchase 2-3 stations, next visit you can get 2-3 more. But none can build water or oxygen generating structures.

However if you take the trouble to put the required materials into your warehouse it does start production, but I notice that I only receive credit from the current system that I was in.

[Accolon]

Yeah you can*t use Stations between Systems....which sux even more...

[Accolon]

True so far HERA is the "Best" Station you can buy in Sol System. I bought a Station which produces URAN in the North/East Part of the System. Added another URAN Mine so I have both Uran/Petrol. Works out fine.

[Levi]

Aside of Hera I have bought the Gray Matter Station in hope to have a "full" Bio Farm / Habitat passive Credit Income. I did the math and it is painstakingly slow but a stable income:

One Bio Farm which needs 2 crates of Water - 26 credits (13 each) worth and makes 1 Nutrient.
One Habitat which needs 1 Nutrient (made from your own Bio Farm) and 1 Oxygen - 10 credits worth.

So I get 50 Credits for the cost of 36. Now on a bigger scale (which will take weeks and months) it should finance itself fairly well. 10 Bio Farms and Habitats will produce an income of 160 Credits. 100 Farms and Habitats will make 1.600 Credits.

For this experiment I chose Gray Matter 'cause it's the closest one to Earth with the Stations Terra Vita with Oxygen and Poseidon with Water. High amounts (around 170) with a low and stable price.

Now I do have bought Station Hera before Gray Matter and I do have Ship Parts in production at Bastille, it only takes (quite a bit) of time. I also built 2 additional Electronics Factories and an Engineering Module for extra Electronics and Hardware on appearing delivery missions.

The only really expensive things are the Ship Parts for which I have to save up credits:

1 Bio Farm for 10 Ship Parts
1 Habitat for 5 Ship Parts
100 of both will cost me 1.500 Ship Parts.

Aside of all that I still do defend the station, eliminate pirate fleets and delivery missions (only the Ship Part missions I skip). I need the Ship Parts myself to expand.

My fleet so far are:

3 Vipers
1 B-2 Executor
2 T14 Bronto

The Vipers have 5 Laser guns and 2 Ion guns (really not more needed to break through shields). Gunboats are a pain I agree. Boost past the Gunboats, turn around and lock on fast on one. Switch powers from guns to shields and turn off to get out of their turrets fire.

I do take on Capital Ships aswell, only I do a Hit and Run tactic on the Heavy Turrets. As the turret turns to me I turn off before it starts shooting. Dive down, get some distance and re-appear up above to rinse and repeat.

The Corvettes with their Missile Turrets go down easily.

[Accolon]

Yep...the next System which you can reach via the Stargate is a good one to get Stations that produce Water/Air....they are expensive 49k each..but worth it....Lyuthen System is a good place because you can use 3 different worm holes to other systems.....

your ships get damaged all time but if you buy high value stuff like ship parts or weapons its worth it.
It is not a good decision to buy all possible stations cuz some give you very good jobs for trade...

so limit yourself to 2-3 station per system and it works just fine.....

i have 14 ships already and 400k credits and a dozen stations in 4 systems with tons of stuff on them....so the empire is rising^^

every ship is maxed to every possible limit. vipers are the best fighter, godzillas best gunboats, brontos best frighter. B1 Bombers the best Bombers and the Brutus is the best heavy fighter(railgun) you can use for free. The ships for money are ALL better....otherwise they wouldnt be worth the real money^^

not sure if its worth to get more stations in other systems..cuz u need to protect your station frighters.....or pirates capture/destroy them....so dont stay too long in one system or the support lines between your stations are crashing.

[Accolon]

I am at 100 at every Faction so far....the cheapest station was 25k and the most expensive 49k...depends on what you get i guess^^

[Cmdr. DoomForge™]

I wouldn't go so far as to say "all" of the premium ships are better, lol, but you are right at least that some are. The T16 Rex and Apocalypse in particular are good. Eagle is not a bad interceptor if you have it unlocked for earlier use, but the Viper still has it beat. Bronto is not bad, though I felt the Mule was more economical for the price since it is not meant to be a combat ship and the stat change between them is pretty minor otherwise for the price difference.

I hope we get some new options in the future though for gunboats or even some frigates and such too. Something like either a new gunboat with laser and ion turrets or the ability to buy and swap out other pre-existing armaments for different ones. Kinda sad they only have one general area in the home system for water and O2 rather than being able to make the modules on other stations, but at least other systems now can allow purchase of stations with it.

[Accolon]

Well the Game is a new starter....we may see several new implements in the future^^

[Cmdr. DoomForge™]

Yeah, hahaha. Like the vulture for instance. I really like the design of it, but the armament though is so badly lacking. if it was lasers instead of plasma it'd be better. Not fond of the eagle design.

[Accolon]

And not to mention you shouldnt compare a Fighter with an interceptor...they have different jobs^^

I just mentioned the "Pay2PlayShips" because someone may ask himself are they worth it^^..

[abion]

i have all the stuff i need to start production on Hera but items still red in queue nothing producing that i can tell