help constructing new station no resources

[joshtb86]

i need a bit of help constructing my first station. ive read up on how to do it but nothing happens

i bought the plot, designed the station, gave it money, hired a builder, but now it just sits there. it managed to get one of the 3 resources required, but the other 2 are at 0.

the construction ship just sits there

what am i doing wrong?

[Ｍｏｎａｄｎｏｃｋ]

When you build stations and provide credits, you're simply buying raw materials from other factions to supply the building supply. There might just be no stations selling those specific materials close to you, or you're not offering enough for the AI to bother.

Either give it a little bit of time, or slightly increase the price you're willing to pay for each material so that the AI will bring it to you.

Alternatively, if you have a cargo ship, you can just pick up the materials yourself from nearby stations that are selling.

Also, insure you don't have any global restrictions for trade in place.

Edit: Are those last two materials Turret and Shield Components? I've always found that those are almost always the last to be served. I'm assuming that the three you have are Claytronics, Energy Cells, and Hull Parts - or possibly Advanced Electronics. Those are typically the first ones to be delivered, at which point the builder should begin putting the hull together.

[joshtb86]

Originally posted by Monadnock:

When you build stations and provide credits, you're simply buying raw materials from other factions to supply the building supply. There might just be no stations selling those specific materials close to you, or you're not offering enough for the AI to bother.

Either give it a little bit of time, or slightly increase the price you're willing to pay for each material so that the AI will bring it to you.

Alternatively, if you have a cargo ship, you can just pick up the materials yourself from nearby stations that are selling.

Also, insure you don't have any global restrictions for trade in place.

Edit: Are those last two materials Turret and Shield Components? I've always found that those are almost always the last to be served.

no, claytronics and something else

so i see they hired wares with 00:02 and 00:16 after it - does that mean in how many minutes its anticipated to arrive?

[☠Kith Blod Hrafn☠]

What resources are missing?

I found at the beginning of the game, resources are not plentiful, so you might have to wait a long while for a cargo ship to buy it and bring it to your build storage.

you can also buy a cargo ship and find the resources yourself and trade with the station build storage.

And is your station in a highly populated system or out in no man's land? The more remote the station is the longer it will be for some to bring the wares.

Things like Advanced electronics and turret components are highly sought after and are not in great supply through out the game. Claytronics is another expensive and high demand item which you need for stations and at the beginning of the game it is better to find a claytronics station and manually deliver the wares to your station build storage.

once you have Energy Cells, Claytronics and Hull parts.. that station will build each module. That is all you need. The other wares are for turrets and defence.

hope this helps.

[Ｍｏｎａｄｎｏｃｋ]

Originally posted by joshtb86:

Originally posted by Monadnock:

When you build stations and provide credits, you're simply buying raw materials from other factions to supply the building supply. There might just be no stations selling those specific materials close to you, or you're not offering enough for the AI to bother.

Either give it a little bit of time, or slightly increase the price you're willing to pay for each material so that the AI will bring it to you.

Alternatively, if you have a cargo ship, you can just pick up the materials yourself from nearby stations that are selling.

Also, insure you don't have any global restrictions for trade in place.

Edit: Are those last two materials Turret and Shield Components? I've always found that those are almost always the last to be served.

no, claytronics and something else

so i see they hired wares with 00:02 and 00:16 after it - does that mean in how many minutes its anticipated to arrive?

Yep, if you see that, it will tell you the faction and the trade ship that is bringing those materials to you, including the amount.

[joshtb86]

Originally posted by N49 Outlier:

What resources are missing?

I found at the beginning of the game, resources are not plentiful, so you might have to wait a long while for a cargo ship to buy it and bring it to your build storage.

you can also buy a cargo ship and find the resources yourself and trade with the station build storage.

And is your station in a highly populated system or out in no man's land? The more remote the station is the longer it will be for some to bring the wares.

Things like Advanced electronics and turret components are highly sought after and are not in great supply through out the game. Claytronics is another expensive and high demand item which you need for stations and at the beginning of the game it is better to find a claytronics station and manually deliver the wares to your station build storage.

once you have Energy Cells, Claytronics and Hull parts.. that station will build each module. That is all you need. The other wares are for turrets and defence.

hope this helps.

thanks this makes a lot of sense

[joshtb86]

Originally posted by Monadnock:

Originally posted by joshtb86:

no, claytronics and something else

so i see they hired wares with 00:02 and 00:16 after it - does that mean in how many minutes its anticipated to arrive?

Yep, if you see that, it will tell you the faction and the trade ship that is bringing those materials to you, including the amount.

thanks!

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by joshtb86:

Originally posted by Monadnock:

Yep, if you see that, it will tell you the faction and the trade ship that is bringing those materials to you, including the amount.

thanks!

Glad you got it it figured out. A good principle to play X4 by is "a watched pot never boils". Stuff takes time to happen. There's tons of stuff to do and it's a good habit to get into to force yourself to go off and do something completely different while you're waiting a for a station to build etc.

[haessliches Frettchen]

With my first station as a mission i haved the same problem, but just no hull parts.

After many hours I checked the sectors near the station for hull parts and realized that they all have rep -15 who sell this parts. Seems there is no trade with -15 rep.
So I fly in these sectors and kill some criminals and do some missions to raise the reputation and then I can bought it.

So be nice to your neighbours

[winslm]

If you have your own freight ships, sometimes it can be easier to buy the components yourself and transfer them to the build storage. There were times when this went much faster.