construction costs?

[mdcpaladin]

building a dock on my PHQ but cant seem to find how much itll cost. i know where to add funds, but the cost is what i do not know. should i just throw a few mil in for my 3m6s dock?

[stretch]

When you plan your build - open up the 'manage buy offers for needed resources' dropdown. Just above where you assign funds for the build it will show the estimated cost.

[mdcpaladin]

i see it now. bout a half mil. it looks like it wont build due to lack of fund even after sticking 2.5 mil into my construction acct. cant seem to engage the ship i contracted to give money to

[Renvolt]

The money is to pay traders not just given to the construction ship. You have to wait for parts to be delivered by traders to make the dock.

[mdcpaladin]

Originally posted by Renvolt:

The money is to pay traders not just given to the construction ship. You have to wait for parts to be delivered by traders to make the dock.

so they should be on their way with parts in which the money will b paid? my timer still says 15:00 and that construction of new module cannot start

[DCBenton]

You have to wait until the transports with the resources reach the station. Check in the Build Resources tab. It should show any ships that are on the way.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1590722519

[mdcpaladin]

Originally posted by bigfleb:

You have to wait until the transports with the resources reach the station. Check in the Build Resources tab. It should show any ships that are on the way.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1590722519

ok it looks like its working. only owe 170k now and i see traders bringing me stuff.
good game, exjoyed X3ap and TC but never got that far for station building. damn menus are so complex i was certain i was missing something. thanks for the answers!

[Spectre]

One of my biggest problems, coming from X3 myself, is that some things that I feel should be nested six or seven levels deep in menus, are pretty surface level interface now (Right Clicking on the map made my head explode briefly). Its still a complex interface, but way better than X3.

[Kaden Auduin]

I've been playing quite a bit with the station building mechanics, and it's more labor intensive to do it this way, but you can source the materials yourself through having one of your trading ships buy the mats and transfer them to your build storage on station. Cuts way down on building costs if you can stand to micro like that.

[mdcpaladin]

Originally posted by Kaden Auduin:

I've been playing quite a bit with the station building mechanics, and it's more labor intensive to do it this way, but you can source the materials yourself through having one of your trading ships buy the mats and transfer them to your build storage on station. Cuts way down on building costs if you can stand to micro like that.

i might try that. got enough credits that i could easily build several medium traders. but as it is now it seems im just waiting on hull parts and there is a hull parts trader coming it looks like. name and everything in my plan build menu