X4: Foundations

X4: Foundations

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SENMSL Mar 21, 2023 @ 10:27am
Is a blueprint of L-ship fabrication bays worthy?
It seems the price of blueprint of L-ship fabrication bays plus the price of blueprint of destroyers can buy about 30 well-equipped destroyers from Argon. I am not a big fan of the sense of achievement to build one when I can buy one much cheaper. Maybe I will try building later, but in an economic sense, is L-ship fabrication bay worthy for a fleet of destroyers?
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mmmcheesywaffles Mar 21, 2023 @ 11:20am 
As Grumpy said or implied.... wealth grows wealth. The advantage is you can build your own destroyers to the precise layout you want. Whilst other factions will buy few from you

EDIT: Typo
Last edited by mmmcheesywaffles; Mar 21, 2023 @ 11:32am
blackphoenixx Mar 21, 2023 @ 11:28am 
It's worth it just to build your L ships with the loadout you want instead of having to go to 2-3 equipment docks all over the universe after leaving the shipyard.
Otherwise things like putting TER shields and ARG flak on your paranid destroyers becomes a logistical nightmare.
Also if you own the shipyard you can install and reroll mods without paying credits.

You can also set it to closed loop economy to simplify the logistics.
It's much easier than trying to keep an NPC shipyard supplied with advanced electronics, weapon components and so on.

Having your own shipyard is also necessary to build Syns.
Bozz 💀 Mar 21, 2023 @ 12:14pm 
you can also go for the maintenance bays, I like to do that in early games.
Then you only need to buy the ship you want with absolutely minimum equipments which will cost only a few million credits and not much ressources so you don't haveto wait for the shipyard to get the ressources.
Then you can equip the ship at your maintenance bay.

some of the ressources are also very easy to produce for the equipments.
you don't need a huge empire for that or many stations.
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Date Posted: Mar 21, 2023 @ 10:27am
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