Save ship builds as Blueprint

[𝓞𝓸𝓴𝓪𝓶𝓲]

It would be nice to have a function where one could save a ship build as blueprint for future playthroughs. I just finished with rebuilding the Frontier ship, took me 3 hours, but i'm quite happy with the result. It would be cool if i could save the build for another playthrough so that i won't need to spend 3 hours next time too. For builds not to be OP for new games, one could just lock them behind skill requirements that need to be meet if it has items that require them. That way a lvl 10 wouldn't be able to start right away with a full experimental ship.

[Plenamir]

I concur. Hopefully Bethesda is listening.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by 𝓞𝓸𝓴𝓪𝓶𝓲:

It would be nice to have a function where one could save a ship build as blueprint for future playthroughs. I just finished with rebuilding the Frontier ship, took me 3 hours, but i'm quite happy with the result. It would be cool if i could save the build for another playthrough so that i won't need to spend 3 hours next time too. For builds not to be OP for new games, one could just lock them behind skill requirements that need to be meet if it has items that require them. That way a lvl 10 wouldn't be able to start right away with a full experimental ship.

I agree, and we've talked about this as well. I've been saving detailed notes on each ship I build or simply upgrade but some type of in-game blueprint system would sure save a lot of time. Something.

[HeyYou]

Being able to do a NEW build as well.... Instead of having to nuke an already existing ship, to build what you actually want. (really not sure why this wasn't included in the base game, seems like a major oversight to me..... beth HAD to know folks would want to build their own....) But, if beth doesn't get around to it, modders will, once we have the CK.

[Caolán_The_Wolf]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Being able to do a NEW build as well.... Instead of having to nuke an already existing ship, to build what you actually want. (really not sure why this wasn't included in the base game, seems like a major oversight to me..... beth HAD to know folks would want to build their own....) But, if beth doesn't get around to it, modders will, once we have the CK.

true, maybe we'll get a way to have new parts follow the original ship's paint scheme too, if its not already in the game.

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Caolán_The_Wolf:

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Being able to do a NEW build as well.... Instead of having to nuke an already existing ship, to build what you actually want. (really not sure why this wasn't included in the base game, seems like a major oversight to me..... beth HAD to know folks would want to build their own....) But, if beth doesn't get around to it, modders will, once we have the CK.

true, maybe we'll get a way to have new parts follow the original ship's paint scheme too, if its not already in the game.

Not yet that I am aware of..... But yeah, that would be rather nice. :D

[Caolán_The_Wolf]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Originally posted by Caolán_The_Wolf:

true, maybe we'll get a way to have new parts follow the original ship's paint scheme too, if its not already in the game.

Not yet that I am aware of..... But yeah, that would be rather nice. :D

would love to be able to have a dark green ship with metallic copper accents

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Caolán_The_Wolf:

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Not yet that I am aware of..... But yeah, that would be rather nice. :D

would love to be able to have a dark green ship with metallic copper accents

You should be able to do that????

[Caolán_The_Wolf]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Originally posted by Caolán_The_Wolf:

would love to be able to have a dark green ship with metallic copper accents

You should be able to do that????

truth be told i couldnt be arsed painting my ship when i played cos i was always stealing new ones.

[chipartist]

In the shipbuilder I take multiple view screenshots of ship designs I want to recreate and use the Screenshot Manager to open their disk location, then copy them to a separate folder as references for the new build. When I transitioned to NG+3 I used this method to reconstruct my final NG+2 ship, Indigo Circe, as Indigo Nimue and have flown her for the entire NG+3 playthrough. I recently reconfigured Indigo Nimue along the lines of the experimental build Indigo Morgana and those kinds of shots were absolutely necessary to save time (and fristration!) getting things squared away and shipshape.

Original traditional design:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3154553343
Nimue's new layout based on the experimental Morgana design:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169561281
Having to do the rebuild by memory, well, it just didn't work out well lol, so the screenshots were priceless. Not exactly blueprints but a decent substitute.

[chipartist]

These are my screenshot "blueprints" of an unbuilt Class B mitigated damage design starting with the Class A Kfir merchant's ship. If I start a completely new game this design may come in handy as I progress through the Piloting skills, so I'll stash these and a few more references along with other unbuilt concepts I've done over the lifetime of my current character.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169740274
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169739867
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169740009
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169740407
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169740483
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169741154

[Drake Ravenwolf]

What'd be even cooler would be integrating ship design into the story - eg on that mission for Stroud you ought to be able to fire everyone and do it yourself with the end result being the ship you encounter randomly from then on

[Nemezir]

+ 1
Blueprints would be great.