Ship points?

[Kingston]

is there a way to increase the ship points? or is the maximum 8? I'm planning to build a huge fleet right now but with just 8 ship points I only got 2 ships

[listless]

We can only have eight ships, I thought.

I've got 2 two-pointers, and 4 one-pointers, and at first I was going to keep my fleet at one large and six small ships, but I found managing that many really fiddly. All the little annoyances add up, like four shuttles all circling around the same airlock while you're trying to get a shuttle in there, or ship wide fires raging on every ship. Also those little ships don't leave much room for things like grow beds, and you have to compromise between guns and shields. You can't have many of either. I think I wound up with one energy cannon, a fighter, and two small shield generators on each. And going from ship to ship to change targets during a fight is also time consuming.

There are some benefits, though, like spreading enemy fire among many targets instead of one, being able to adequately separate crew members who hate each other, freeing up space that would be taken up by berths on your large ship, or assigning your elite boarding parties to their own ships where they're easy to round up for missions.

[Kingston]

Originally posted by stinkin badges:

Here's a description from the wiki:. It's based on the size of your ship.

https://spacehaven.fandom.com/wiki/System_Point

1x1 Ship

A small ship made of 1 size tile, called a 1x1, gives 1 Core Point, which allows a single X1 System Core providing 12 System Points.

1x2 Ship

A medium horizontal ship made of 2 size tiles, called a 1x2, has room for 2 X 1 System Cores or 1 X2 System Core, for a maximum of 24 System Points.

3 x 2 Ship

The biggest ship size in the game, the 3x2, made of 6 size tiles, allowing a combination of System Cores totaling a maximum of 72 System Points. This is the maximum System Points a ship can have.

ohhh i see i waas wondering how this works thnx for explaining it so well and with details too

[Brigand231]

Originally posted by listless:

...or assigning your elite boarding parties to their own ships where they're easy to round up for missions.

You know you can just change their clothing colors for identification too, right? ...kinda like Star Trek. You can also cut down on the number of beds needed by scheduling sleep in shifts just like a job.