What do I do if a ship yard runs out of parts?

[Klapseninsasse]

I have one ship stuck in production there and another one stuck in upgrade mode. Do I have to give up on these two?

[Shnozberry83]

you could just deliver the missing parts and make some money while your at it (unless you dont own a cargo ship yet)

[Gregorovitch]

Three options:

1. Set up some auto-traders next to the yard in question. Set their wares lists to whatever the yard is missing, set the sell gates to 0 to make sure they deliver to the yard in question, set the buy gates to just cover some factories that supply the missing parts.

2. Build a station next to the yard in question that makes the missing parts.

3. Spend some time manually stacking up trade deals for the missing parts untilyou shipped enough to build the ships you want.

The first two are very profitable for you and also will usually enable you to get whatever ships you want whenever you want in the future.

[Klapseninsasse]

Thanks, guys!

I don't have the money to build a station or buy a fleet of auto-traders yet, so I'll just have to do it manually for the moment.

[Klapseninsasse]

It's pretty weird, the ship yard seems to have everything in full stock.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1629159391

Still doesn't complete my ships. Is that a bug?

I remember that I hacked some computers on this station and don't have a clue what happened. Is that the problem? Can I unhack them?

[Gregorovitch]

You can tell what parts are missing by ordering a ship and looking at the final bill on the shopping list (you can easily cancel the order just to test). It will tell you the build may be delayed and list the missing parts in orange including the number that would be required.

Note that there may be a build queue which means that somebody else's ship might be in front of yours. At the moment I am not clear whether the number of missing parts displayed for you relates specifically to your ordered ship or to the ship currently at the top of the yards build queue or both (all). Mayhap someone else knows.

I say this becasue in my experience if the yard says I'm short of 1000 engine parts to build my ship and I see my ships have delivered several loads of engine parts that doesn't always seem to unlock my build.

But since I've always done this with auto-traders or stations I can say that setting up a delivery of the required parts does eventually lead to the yard being able to build all the ships you are wanting (within reason I guess).

You probably only need two or three auto-traders to get the job done. A spot of crystal mining will probably ge those for you. You want proper freighters (like Mercurys) delivering full loads one after the other.

[PeaceMaker]

Originally posted by dommbatz:

I have one ship stuck in production there and another one stuck in upgrade mode. Do I have to give up on these two?

What would you do in real life? Wait for the them to deliver more or get them and deliver yourself. Or cancel.

It`s not rocket science.

[Klapseninsasse]

Just now the ships completed. It's weird, it took about 5h of playtime. As you said, there probably were other ships in the cue. I didn't know how to look for that information in the menu. I know see where it is. Thanks guys!

[PlayerWon]

i currently have 8 ships stalled because the station needs hull parts but will not buy them. it will buy 2 other wares, but not hull parts. infuriating, after 100 hours on a save, to find it broken.

[PlayerWon]

Originally posted by dommbatz:

Just now the ships completed. It's weird, it took about 5h of playtime. As you said, there probably were other ships in the cue. I didn't know how to look for that information in the menu. I know see where it is. Thanks guys!

you may have been way down in the build queue too... ive only had it happen once to me, where i bought a XL ship and the station was building one for NPC that i had to wait until it was finished but it did happen. no reason there couldnt be a pile of ships queued i suppose.

[Starbucaneer]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

Three options:

1. Set up some auto-traders next to the yard in question. Set their wares lists to whatever the yard is missing, set the sell gates to 0 to make sure they deliver to the yard in question, set the buy gates to just cover some factories that supply the missing parts.

2. Build a station next to the yard in question that makes the missing parts.

3. Spend some time manually stacking up trade deals for the missing parts untilyou shipped enough to build the ships you want.

The first two are very profitable for you and also will usually enable you to get whatever ships you want whenever you want in the future.

Great tips Gregorovitch

[Inanias]

The bolllenecks are the key of the game: Your stations and your money is waiting here.
go HOP, work for them, they invite you to war against Argons and PAR,

then you need money and ships to win it, now you know what you are doing and what is your task and why.

now work yourself up, I needed 150 h of playing, station building MANY drive parts, even more smart chips, if you deliver those, other parts are missing, and if you FINALLY managed to fill the goods, you are finally able to buy ships,

and start the war! with your driven faction, now you prospery! thats a blast to play! HF clearing those sectors! Its a life task!

good baye.. for 1000 hours or so... and the game loves you... you feel SO soaked in... omg

[Bomada]

Originally posted by dommbatz:

It's pretty weird, the ship yard seems to have everything in full stock.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1629159391

Still doesn't complete my ships. Is that a bug?

I remember that I hacked some computers on this station and don't have a clue what happened. Is that the problem? Can I unhack them?

there is a bug that some ships get built without captains board them with marines first ones usually easy but second one sometimes bugs out turns back blue just keep waiting and it will eventually finish the second boarding mission then i usually sell the bugged ships back and after the first one it will start building again but do both if there both not building

[Klapseninsasse]

Thanks again, guys, I really appreciate it!