Anyone got some pro-tips on how to get around this early game bottleneck? It feels like by the time I have the money to afford a freighter to fix it, the wharf is out of hull parts, I can't build it, and I'm stuck until never waiting for the NPC's to deliver it.
Does the bottle neck also prevent the AI from building more ships?
Posted Mar 25, 2021, 8:12 AM UTC
You can make a profitable station with just a single storage unit, a hull parts fab, and a dock. If you don't have your own miners to supply it, you can still make a profit buying the goods. It'll take a while, but I always start out with small stations producing claytronics and hull parts. Expand them as they make money. Give the manager miners and haulers so they can make the goods cheaper.
Then declare war on anyone else who produces them. Corner the market. Conquer the galaxy.
Eventually the ai adapts to needs and builds new stations ect. I usually start with miners, supply the raw materials so they can build things they can't get enough! Eventually they will adapt unless they have been wrecked by the xenon or some other faction.
Feels like it takes forever and normally I'm the one that corrects it. The AI is trying to build stations and such, but I think it's giving priority to those rather than to the shipyards. Current game, both the Split shipyard and wharf are completely out of hull parts. I have to bring them myself if I want a fighter built.
That's rough, yeah it takes ages for them to adjust for sure, meant for us players to take advantage. Do you have enough to set up a small factory yet? Could be profitable to liquidate some assets for long term profitsss
Hull parts I tend to find are ALWAYS a bottle neck but then just like Claytronics the need for them are MASSIVE. Everything uses them and of course you can get the "death" spiral effect that to build a Hull Parts station.... you need Hull Parts.....
Therefore first one I always get running now is a Hull parts station myself, at least that way the universe will always have a "supply" of sorts. And of course prooofffiiiiitttsss for me