Possibly a noob question

[Buckshot]

Im pretty new here. I have figured out the basics of the game and restarted the game and played it through a few times. I am now to the point where I want to build a bigger ship that has much more storage because Im tired of salvaging a few ships before I have to head back to a station to sell to make room for more salvaging. My question is...Can I start building a newer bigger ship, a bit at a time? I mean...I am trying to build a ship from scratch from loot from other ships I salvage. Is that possible?

[Sidian]

Sure, it's possible.

[KishiPhio]

That's basically how I mostly play (Though I do shop for some part I don't have), I love incrementally building my ship bigger and bigger.
So it sure as hell is possible.

[Buckshot]

Thanks guys. Ill have to try to figure out how to do this.

[WillieSea]

Build a little bigger each time you have the resources and the cash, if necessary.

My upgrade depends on what I found 'lacking' with the current version of the ship. Not fast enough, can't turn fast enough, can't stop, needs more defenses, more offensive weapons.

And that is what I upgrade until the next iteration.

[ostlandr]

Just click on "build new ship from scratch" and build piece by piece instead of blueprinting it. You could start with the cockpit, a crew quarters and the storage. Then transfer a few crew, then start transferring materials to the new ship. Transfer the crew back to your other ship(s) and go get more stuff. Rinse and repeat. You can also salvage your other ship(s).

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Buckshot:

Im pretty new here. I have figured out the basics of the game and restarted the game and played it through a few times. I am now to the point where I want to build a bigger ship that has much more storage because Im tired of salvaging a few ships before I have to head back to a station to sell to make room for more salvaging. My question is...Can I start building a newer bigger ship, a bit at a time? I mean...I am trying to build a ship from scratch from loot from other ships I salvage. Is that possible?

Well, you can add to your ship's current design whenever you wish.

You could build a new, separate, ship in bits and pieces as you wish, but it must always comply with the minimum requirements for being a "ship" before you press the "Make It So" button. :)

You can't, AFAIK, Blueprint a newly designed ship and then only "partially" construct it from that Blueprint.

You CAN, however, save any blueprinted thing as a new ship design using the "hamburger" menu in the design/blueprint menu, and then load that item INTO your design/blueprint screen to then build it, as long as whatever you seek create when pressing "Make It So" qualifies as a "ship." In that way, you could build your new ship in "stages" by saving the components separately and then loading them into the current design. (That should work, AFAIK, though I don't do it that way. In this way, you could design whole generic sections for ships, like a particular Engine Room and Thruster cluster arrangement you like to use frequently.)

To simplify the last paragraph - You could Blueprint your entire design, save that as a New Ship, just incase, then go about separating it into "sections" you intend to stage to be built as you collect the needed materials and save each one as a new ship design, separately. (Deleting all the rest that isn't to be included, there.) Then, you'd start off with the main "ship qualifying" stuff, build it, then as you collect materials you'd load into each stage of construction one of the sections you've saved as a Ship. Just choose the "load into" option instead of the "load and replace" option and you should be just fine.