Blueprints vs. Homemade (an informal poll)

[Elegant Caveman]

I'm just curious what people use most.

Do you make all your ships yourself? Use blueprints exclusively? Mix of both?

I haven't used any blueprints yet, but I haven't played that much, I'm sure that'll change in time.

Personally, I love/hate building. I find it an interesting mix of tedious and fun. Presently working on a starter SV, and it's driving me mad, but I'm really looking forward to the finished product.

I see a lot of people talking about using blueprints, so they must be quite popular, but with the changes that have come with 7, I imagine a lot of the old blueprints are unusable. Thinking about all this made me curious about this question.

[subzerofrozenส้้้้้]

I do both just depends on if I'm feeling lazy or want to make something myself. But right now for some reason all bp's on the workshop aren't even showing up for me for some odd reason. For my first starter ship there was one bp I used that used that someone made which was really cheap to make and just had all the basics so you could get around the starter planet or to space.

[Snowtiger]

I build my ships in Creative and spawn them in when I play. I have better things to do with my game time.

[nullforceomega]

I build my facilities and vessels organically through survival play. I've got to say tho', the BP system is a very cool mechanism, I don't use it much but being able to share designs with other players and see their designs in return is always nice.

[orb]

I got the game mainly because it has the building part, so I build my own stuff. Some things, like vessels I first build in creative and blueprint them to spawn in survival, and some other things, like underground / mixed bases I build manually, since how their over ground look will greatly depend on the terrain, but I usually test look of some rooms of them in creative before rebuilding in survival.

[chabero]

My first Hoover i build self in Survial, the first Ship is a BP (Tier 1a), is a nice ship with all you need *but no new Warpdrive, but good enouth for the Moon ;)*

My first CV is PB to, is a nice build and have enouth for the first steps to get the Minerals for the next (latest) Ships

[cbltv1]

I used to build my own HV/SVs in game real time. CV's I would use the stock Tier 1 or 2.

Now that I've played several CoOP and MP games I use more workshop BPs than before.

It used to be fun to build them from scratch in game. But the game has changed so much since the start of v6.0.

[Sparrowhawk65]

Depends on my mood. Each start I used to make new ships each time. I always ended up with something a bit different each time. But been a bit lazy recently and been spawning some ships I made. Same with bases. I usually start in a mine I've dug out and build some underground boxes.

[Undead Rufus]

In the early game, I mostly build my own stuff. Later, once resources aren't so much of an issue, I'll start spawning BPs since workshop constructions tend to be vastly superior to anything I could make.

[darrylhs]

I always use my own ships which of course I build in creative then blue print so I can spawn them in. I build in space as it’s so much easier

[Cassian]

I build all of my own ships mostly in creative and blueprint them into my games, sometimes I build in survival to. Ive never blueprinted or spawned a base yet always build it in game.

[grrantu]

I build my own ships in Creative, then Spawn the blueprints in the factory.

[Incognito]

I use blueprints then modifiy accordingly to fit my needs

[Goffender]

Both but usually use my own prints since I prefer function over form.

[thuskerpackj]

Early in the game I build a cheap SV and CV to explore and get a little rare ore to get me started. Then I custom design the HV and have it load on a custom CV and build a blueprint SV for each planatery base with a moon.

[殺してあげる]

Build my own ships and bases...especially bases because of terrain differences.

Once I find I have a ship rather fit for its use, painted up and worked well, I'll blueprint it and will use it in a future game...maybe. Depends if game changes and new ideas don't spark a new design.

That said, I did make a minimalist SV ages ago, that has seen dozens of BP spawn...it's just too cute, cheap, fuel efficient and useful not to keep using.

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Blueprints tend to be rather future-proof. Designs from 4.x still work now. It's (to some of us) one of the draws to this. Restarting isn't as bad when you can 'keep' some of your work.


They'd also be heavily of use for PvP people who have to replace their ships and not want to spend hours rebuilding it - instead just shove in parts and wait.