how can i speed up the station building?

[Rektor]

is there a way to like add multiple construction ships to speed things up? its been almost the entire day in seta and not even the storage of my 2,5 billion complex is built, i strongly feel like its pretty shady to only allow one construction ship at once. make it costly, i dont care, have me built more of my own construction ships but give me speeed

[Gregorovitch]

It is true that is a close run thing between hell freezing over and a complex getting built in X4F.

[Grimaldus]

There is no way to speed it up really. I'm building a complex myself atm
that has 8 Large living areas and it takes 3 hours to build them if i don't SETA.

If you're building a factorum for 2.5 billion, i can only imagine the size of it,
so i can understand your frustration. But still, once it's done you'll do what?.
Let your 2.5billion credit complex be a part of your endgame .

Geezz.. 2.5 billion... you gotta screenshot that ♥♥♥♥ once it's done.

[Rektor]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/938339020211188822/2B11515D0FEDA50E4024A76170EBAA3BF7F1D884/

[Gregorovitch]

Yes, but does it make any money?

[Grimaldus]

Holy crap. How do you design something like that without going mad ?.

[Rektor]

its self suffcient, as long as it sells it will make money, and yes, my eyes are still bleeding from planning this thing. the trick is to save the blueprint, then save the plot changes, leave the plot and go back in after each different module type u placed. theres a memory leak in the planner that slows down the planning part based on the calculation with the green connection lines

[eMYNOCK]

the green connections thingie is a myth...

anyway, this... borg cube... is overkill, i like it.

it will take some time to be build if you are not stuffing every single unit spot in your CV with a construction drone.

this tiny beauty allone took me 3 days

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1625879181

[Gregorovitch]

Anyways please post screeshots of this behemoth when it's built, Although I suspect we might be too busy playing Cyberpunk 2077 by then.

[Rektor]

not as much of a myth as u might think. its clearly connected to the calculation of possible snap points. as soon as u start moving a module the fps go down, put the module down, fps fine

[salzlaender]

Deutsche Gründlichkeit lol

Solange der builder alle benötigten Baudrohnen hat... ich fürchte, da musst du dich etwas gedulden. Der BER wurde auch nicht in einem Jahrzehnt erbaut!

[isemados]

Well, you missed some basic tricks to help yourself out...

if you want many things at the same time... parallelize them

so instead of build 1 station with loooong list, just split it up in 5 stations, and you get 5 times the speed because you can recruit 5 construction ships...

very easy exploit (or 10 or any amount of constructors,.. even those from 5 gates over are coming faster than you can deliver resources).

if you can make so big stations, you can also make them self-producing their resources each as far as until you add mining ships.

[isemados]

I have started with the 1 wharf-supply complex, but later I got some defense stations from missions, and I had a good basis to build.

So I kept build all those stations on and on and on, and now I got 5 very decent complexes already, and with increasing game time, I get them large, 5 at the same time. Now I already got even more defense stations.

YOu can build defense stations for mission for more than 1 faction, you can build the whole galaxy... in fact very quickly.

I think, your problem will be money, and not so much build speed if you make it right. believe me!

[Rektor]

im well aware of the possibiity to make serveral stations instead of one big ... surprise surprise i thought of that myself, sadly though i want one big thingy with only one entry in my posessions list and not 20. it cant be that hard to let me add 5 of my own construction ships and increase the build speed that way

[isemados]

I once had some trouble getting smart chip production up, because HOP doesnt sell smart chip plans, and I was also not getting a data leak, after tens of times scanning the 3 HOP smart chip productions in my sector.

only after that, as being in war with argon and PAR, I went into antigone sector, which I was NOT in war with, (had some +9 contact), trying to buy or hack the Production plans I needed them URGENTLY, because all HOP was incapacipated to build SHIPS AND COULD NOT MAKE SMART CHIPS AND ME NEITHER my brain explodes, it was so pitty so so so pitty... and worse

then I finally got a data leak in antigone, after hours and hours of working for Antigone, but I needed level 3 rank up for smart chips plans, and got the data leak short before gettin +20 relationship with antigone.

In this time, I also accepted 1 defense station mission for ANtigone, being only HOP until then...

but I didnt find any antigone constructor, and funny thing is: I got a RED marked HOSTILE argon constructor building up my Defense station hahaha! (it was -20 argon relationship, so not the worst hostile, just red wary warning relation you know...)

Once I got the plans for smart chips FINALLY, I was in strong urge to make many in short time; money was no problem: I just built 5 stations I had just added smart-chip production on all at once, having now at least 20 production modules some time later, which was a huge investment for my size then...

and What was even strange er was that those 20 modules DIDNT FILL THE NEEEEEEED OF MY SHIP YARD I STILL NEEDED MORE! I BUILT 30, 50 production modules, but now I have finally pleased the ongoing need, but even after 100 hours of building stations for wharfs, I sill miss electronics now, as the new bottleneck for wharfs AND weapon component... do I need another 20 pro... ah 50 production modules?... This game gives me a blast!

[isemados]

Originally posted by Rektor:

it cant be that hard to let me add 5 of my own construction ships and increase the build speed that way

It CAN. and believe me it hurts. The PAIN of silliness. enjoy you deserved it...

just play build fleet and wipe out a faction and come back later to your 2.5 billion complex, this is also a way of parallelillllisatuion sensation. owow no mind, no idea, no interest, no game... keeeeeeeep the ... level/niveau. Y->Yes.