How much money should I have to start building stations?

[_Patrick Swayze]

Only started playing since the weekend after a break of over a year. How much money would you advice me to have to start building stations?

Do I need to scan other stations to unlock parts? Can I buy the parts at the faction leaders only after scanning them?

For making money, what kind of station would you advice me to start with?

Thanks in advance for you feedback and I welcome any other advice.

[ASMR gaming]

you will probably need a construction ship and a decent trading / mining fleet before even considering it

[Adonia50]

I usually buy my first station with 20mil+ on hand.

On a typical start i have get 10+ medium miners. All of the pilots with 3 or more stars i have do automining for nvidium. The rest i split out doing silicon or ore.

When you get your 20 mil, i usually go with 6 hull parts in a closed loop station, always on a 10x10x10x10x10x10 lot in uncharted space. I build at least 1 extra energy. You then have 2 of the required 3 resources to build other stations.

Move your ore/silicon miners to service the station but leave the nvidium

now get it to 12 hull, then move to 6 clay. Within 2 days of play time you should get a full loop of 18 hull, 12 clay and be able to build that up to a fully functional shipyard at ZERO cost :)

[Yeizinho]

You buy the modules you need (blue prints) from faction leaders. it's more about your faction standing.
At least for ships and equipment blue prints.
There is a way to scan for blueprints, to not buy it. But before you can do that you need your HQ and some stuff researched.

If you want to just start a station, you could just get energy cell blueprint. And expand when you get more cash.

[_Patrick Swayze]

Cheers guys, I have 26 medium miners at the moment, so the money is coming in quite rapidly. Going to dive into some station building tutorials then.

[ScareCrow]

all you basicly need is a couple of millions + licences for a small factory sunrise flower or something similar, youll be surprised how little they need for construction and later budget, you can see how much by setting up a small plot and try adding a few items

[ScareCrow]

Originally posted by Join my group:

you will probably need a construction ship and a decent trading / mining fleet before even considering it

you dont need a construction ship! you can hire any construction ships from any race, you just need to set up a satellite in every sector you have near the jump gates and youll find construction ships waiting for a job

[Adonia50]

Here is an example of a megastation i built - all of the required stations are present.... you only have to add on ship production


http://www.x4-game.com/#/station-calculator?l=@$module-module_gen_prod_energycells_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_refinedmetals_01,count:3;,$module-module_gen_prod_hullparts_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_siliconwafers_01,count:4;,$module-module_gen_prod_superfluidcoolant_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_antimattercells_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_energycells_01,count:3;,$module-module_gen_prod_microchips_01,count:8;,$module-module_gen_prod_quantumtubes_01,count:5;,$module-module_gen_prod_claytronics_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_energycells_01,count:7;,$module-module_gen_prod_refinedmetals_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_hullparts_01,count:12;,$module-module_gen_prod_siliconwafers_01,count:5;,$module-module_gen_prod_superfluidcoolant_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_antimattercells_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_microchips_01,count:9;,$module-module_gen_prod_quantumtubes_01,count:4;,$module-module_gen_prod_claytronics_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_microchips_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_quantumtubes_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_siliconwafers_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_advancedelectronics_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_refinedmetals_01,count:3;,$module-module_gen_prod_siliconwafers_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_microchips_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_quantumtubes_01,count:1;,$module-module_tel_prod_scanningarrays_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_turretcomponents_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_plasmaconductors_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_shieldcomponents_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_plasmaconductors_01,count:7;,$module-module_gen_prod_quantumtubes_01,count:3;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_superfluidcoolant_01,count:3;,$module-module_gen_prod_fieldcoils_01,count:6;,$module-module_tel_prod_advancedcomposites_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:1;,$module-module_gen_prod_missilecomponents_01,count:24;,$module-module_gen_prod_plasmaconductors_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_weaponcomponents_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_superfluidcoolant_01,count:1;,$module-module_tel_prod_engineparts_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_antimattercells_01,count:1;,$module-module_tel_prod_teladianium_01,count:3;,$module-module_gen_prod_dronecomponents_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_smartchips_01,count:6;,$module-module_gen_prod_antimatterconverters_01,count:6;,$module-module_tel_prod_advancedcomposites_01,count:4;,$module-module_gen_prod_graphene_01,count:3;,$module-module_tel_prod_teladianium_01,count:2;,$module-module_gen_prod_microchips_01,count:5;,$module-module_gen_prod_siliconwafers_01,count:2

[Adonia50]

Sorry, the URL function doesn't work - you have to copy paste to get it.

[ScareCrow]

Thank you for that link it proves useful