How to fully destroy a build storage

[RadicalMooseLamb]

Does anyone know how to destroy these? You can blow up most of the containers with a fighter. Or well. Every container you can see, but there's always a small amount left and firing all around does nothing. Firing directly at the build station does zero damage.

I've seen one of them killed before using my xenon H with it's AoE turrets. After a couple shots it disappeared but I'm not sure what actually causes it to die so that I can kill it with a few shots with my fighter.

[shietinghd]

Go out of secter set ships to attack, they attack and destroy station. That what i remember. Im at the moment in new start and cant test.

[RadicalMooseLamb]

Originally posted by SG:

Maybe just ignore it?

It's not the station. Its the build storage. And I can't ignore it because I'm trying to get the achievement for destroying the build storage of the duke bucaneers. Which requires you to destroy the build storage lol

[Winter's Embers]

The few times I was able to do it, I kept firing at the docking portion of the ship after detonating all container storage units AND the free-floating crates of goods that appear. After a time, the entire thing blew up. If the enemy has started the station, you may have to destroy that in order to completely destroy it. It won't appear as anything if it's only a few percentage points completed but if you try to fly into the area marked for the station, you'll bound off. You can select it and see the total hull. Destroy that.

[vincentf563]

It's not necessary to destroy it. But you can shoot it for 5 minutes with a destroyer and it blows up.

[RadicalMooseLamb]

Originally posted by vincentf563:

It's not necessary to destroy it. But you can shoot it for 5 minutes with a destroyer and it blows up.

Does it lose hull points when you shoot it with a destroyer or does it just magically blow up?

[vincentf563]

Originally posted by RadicalMooseLamb:

Originally posted by vincentf563:

It's not necessary to destroy it. But you can shoot it for 5 minutes with a destroyer and it blows up.

Does it lose hull points when you shoot it with a destroyer or does it just magically blow up?

It just blows up. Some of them blow up very quickly some of them take a while. My first one died when I shot it with an M Class ship. It hasn't been that way since. I also do like the other guy here does. Shoot the material pods first then the station then go after the build storage. After a week or so of not killing the build storages I'm sure they despawn

[Venerable_Sin]

What in the world? Why do you have to hulk smash? Just unload it with some traders and make some $$ in the process. It will disappear when there is nothing in it.

[RadicalMooseLamb]

Originally posted by vincentf563:

Originally posted by RadicalMooseLamb:

Does it lose hull points when you shoot it with a destroyer or does it just magically blow up?

It just blows up. Some of them blow up very quickly some of them take a while. My first one died when I shot it with an M Class ship. It hasn't been that way since. I also do like the other guy here does. Shoot the material pods first then the station then go after the build storage. After a week or so of not killing the build storages I'm sure they despawn

I don't want to hurt the station in any way shape or form. That's not part of the achievement and I'm not trying to eliminate the station. I'll try destroying the floating crates of goods as well like Winter suggested. Maybe I'm just not shooting it long enough with my ship. I know my destroyer can do it, I just don't want to have to drag my destroyer 12 sectors to blow up something. It's guarding and important gate.

[RadicalMooseLamb]

I feel very dumb. I didn't even need to destroy the build storage haha. The achievement was to kill a storage container on the station itself. Mission Accomplished.

[Venerable_Sin]

HULK SMASH!

[Wraith]

just in case anyone still want to blow up build storage.

you first shoot at the cargo and they will slowly blow up.
Then you can shoot the metal railing around the cargo.
100% way of killing it. (me cleaning up 7 build storage of Xenon lol)

if you don't want to do that they despawn after awhile

[Outo]

They do not take damage if there is a inbound transport, it's worked Everytime. Hunting down the inbound transports with fleet members is the tuff part.

[gizmo6023]

I have two empty build storage containers that have been hanging out for over a week now. I have spent many min blasting away with M & L class ships and they refuse to die. I want them gone so I can rebuild my gate defense in the space they currently occupy.

[RadicalMooseLamb]

Originally posted by Outo:

They do not take damage if there is a inbound transport, it's worked Everytime. Hunting down the inbound transports with fleet members is the tuff part.

The real part to this and actually the answer to my thread which I found out myself. Is that they automatically disappear once a base is fully destroyed. The problem is 99.9% of the time you can't see a base destroyed. It "blows up" but that doesn't mean its dead.

You must leave the sector. Save. Than reload. Fly back over and you'll see that many parts probably slightly rebuilt by like 1%. You have to blow them up again. You may have to keep going back and doing this many times.

I've had to reload on some bases about 5 times before finally every last invisible piece appeared and I could shoot the parts that got 1% repaired. After that the storage just vanishes from space. Sometimes it takes you shooting the containers out of it before it vanishes.

[rpvb3]

I just have a couple traders with me to buy what is still left in the containerless build storage frame. once they are at 0 storage you can fry the remained. (and they will go away eventually anyway)