Automatic ship sales?

[Stretchytall]

Can you automate the selling of ships? Like, if you create an entire production chain to build fully functional ships, can you then automatically sell them for profit?

[conrado.lacerda]

Yes.

When you have built a wharf or shipyard, assigned a manager and a ship seller to it, and acquired all the necessary blueprints, then the station will start selling ships to npc factions (as allowed by your reputation and the pertinent trade rule).

[Dunkler Messias]

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

When you have built a wharf or shipyard, assigned a manager and a ship seller to it, and acquired all the necessary blueprints, ...

No need to buy every single blueprint if you want to sell ships to the AI. You only need the blueprints for the ship chassis. The AI factions will still order fully functional ships.
Of course, if you want to build ships for yourself, you need to buy blueprints for shields, weapons and stuff.

[Gibbo]

I was under the impression that you needed ship and equipment blueprints? How do they fly it without an engine? They will buy them with no weapons and shields, but they normally start fighting each other almost in the docks as I sell to everyone so it's a good idea to get their equipment blueprints because otherwise they are buying cheap ships and I'm sure they need at least an engine? I've always bought ship and equipment BP together.

[Gibbo]

Oh and yeah you can do that OP and it's the best thing to do. Billions of profit. One shipyard that makes and collects everything it needs will earn you billions. The bigger you build it the bigger the profits. I've sold everything. Asgards, Raptors and builders. Thousands of M and S ships and if you let them fight around your station and put a M class ship there on repeat orders collecting drops you'll have loads of loot and mods for your ships. Hundreds of mods. Mostly basic, but some advanced and exceptional. And of course once their ships get destroyed they buy them again from you and have another battle. I've seen them firing through my docks. It's insane lol. My station can handle it. When you build them massive they have millions of hull strength, but if you're near the docks the whole station starts shaking and bouncing and there's a full on war happening just above your head. It's great. Just make sure any turrets on your station are disarmed and no military ships near otherwise you will be at war with at least one faction through friendly fire. Don't worry about the station. It's massive and you should have a few hundred repair drones so let them all fight, collect loot, they buy the ships again, fight, collect loot and so on.

[Dunkler Messias]

Originally posted by Gibbo:

I was under the impression that you needed ship and equipment blueprints? How do they fly it without an engine? They will buy them with no weapons and shields, but they normally start fighting each other almost in the docks as I sell to everyone so it's a good idea to get their equipment blueprints because otherwise they are buying cheap ships and I'm sure they need at least an engine? I've always bought ship and equipment BP together.

The factions bring their own blueprints. So the ships are well-equipped even if you don't own the blueprints. You just need the chassis blueprint of the ships. That's it.

[The Big Brzezinski]

The blueprints for fittings are generally all really cheap, anyway. It's the hulls that cost real money. Plus you're already going to be buying a lot of those fittings for station construction.

[Stretchytall]

Originally posted by Gibbo:

And of course once their ships get destroyed they buy them again from you and have another battle.

Ah, the joy of being the heart of the military-industrial complex! ROFL XD