What ship blueprint?

[Faptor]

Im getting pretty close to building my first shipyard but dont know what type of ship blueprint I should buy? maybe I should save for a warf and one of those snazzy Raptors?

Im assuming if I buy a fighter/med freighter lots of people will buy them and make me a billionare real quick or does it not really matter what type of ships you build, the factions just buy whatever?

[LittleBlueDuneBuggy]

Build a S/M wharf BP. Build one or two of them on your shipyard. Don't worry about L shipyard BP's yet. Buy fighter blueprints for each factions. Buzzards, novas, etc. Don't bother buying the weapon/shield/etc blueprints, unless you want them for yourself. The AI will add them to their ships whether or not you own those blueprints. So get the S/M fighter blueprints first. They will keep your shipyard busy 24/7.

[Faptor]

you are awesome! thank you, ill do that :D

I didnt know that you can just make the ship and didnt have to have all the extra addons.

[LittleBlueDuneBuggy]

Originally posted by Faptor:

you are awesome!

no u

[Papasaurus Rex]

Originally posted by Faptor:

you are awesome! thank you, ill do that :D

I didnt know that you can just make the ship and didnt have to have all the extra addons.

we cannot, but the AI can They cheat!
Well we can but

[Faptor]

Holy, this is amazing! I was struggling to make anything over 40 mill but my ship fabricator is pulling that in every hour!
Must expand opperations, get my production set up better.

https://youtu.be/580iA_bOnvo?t=11

Hahaha im going to have a gold platted Raptor before the end of the day.

[Defektiv]

Make sure to put ship sales and repair markup to 150% for other factions. They'll still keep buying and repairing ships and you make insane amounts of money. I bought blueprints for some basic fighters, miners and transports and the ship sales just keep coming. Buy the drone and consumables BPs as well. They're cheap and will make/save you lots too.

[The-Gizmo]

Tbh selling ships to a faction that loses said ships to an enemy such as HOP or Xenon really quickly makes money too fast. I have over 10 billion atm and no idea what to do with it. PAR keeps buying destroyers over and over, just to lose them to HOP. I even put the markup back down to 100% because 150% was making too much money.

[Papasaurus Rex]

Ya I both liked and disliked the shipyard/wharf thing because the game went from semi challenge to nothing really matters cause I have a credit printer.

[Faptor]

Originally posted by Defektiv:

Make sure to put ship sales and repair markup to 150% for other factions. They'll still keep buying and repairing ships and you make insane amounts of money.

OOPPps.. This whole time ive had it at 80% because I figured id undercut the market and get more credits haha


Holy guys, with just 1 S/M ship Fabricator going ive rebuilt most of the universes fleets. Teladi were on their last legs, same for my beloved HOP.
Ive got a fleet of 40 ships deffending Hewas Twin 1 Trade Station, HOP are invading Xenon sectors. All is finally well in the universe! For the first time in about 6 days play time things are looking up!

Time to get some XL ship blueprints, make a real fleet and take over some sectors >:D

Edit: I hear what you guys are saying about making too much money but things were so dire in my playthrough that I dont really mind for right now. I was down to my last Oddy and the Teladi lost about 4 full sectors, noone was able to make ships because everyones production lines were decimated by the Xenon, the Split were being decimated, PAR/HOP aswell.
Ive spent all my time skipping around the edges of the map to try take out as meny Xenon as possible before they were able to do any more damage.

For whatever reason the only ones whove been able to survive have been the Argon.