Ship Building: Difference between revisions

==Some helpful controls - Keyboard==

While your Grabbing and attaching your modules here are a few tips to help you get a better view of things

The Camera can be rotated around a center point with the Right Stick on controller, or by holding the Right mouse button and moving the mouse.

The Camera can be panned using the Left Stick on controller, or the W, A, S, D, or the Arrow Keys on the Keyboard

Holding the Left Trigger on controller, or Shift on keyboard, while panning makes the camera move faster

Holding the Left Trigger, while moving the Right Stick up and down on controller, or scrolling the Mouse Wheel on keyboard Zooms in and Out.

==Everything costs something==

Before you get your heart set on installing your 10th Missile Launcher, Note that every piece of equipment, costs Credits, and each Vendor only holds a certain amount of Credits. You can always visualize how you would like to lay your ship out using the Ship builder, but you may want to stick with the basics first before getting too fancy.

Another cost you may not be paying attention to is the Mass, almost every module you add to your ship will add abit of Mass to the ship. The more Mass your ship has, the slower your ship will go if you dont have enough engines to boost your ship.  

==Check your placement==

These are anchor points, showing where they can be attached to other Modules with Anchor points of the same size. Please note the placement of these Anchor points, as some modules siply will not connect to another, and may require other parts like habitats or structural modules, just to make things fit correctly. Do your best to keep track of the modules if you move them, as individual pieces floating by them selves will show up on your flight error list

With most of the required modules being self-explanatory, there are other Categories of modules, such as Structural, and Hab Modules.

Structural Modules are largely cosmetic, and allow you to modify your Starship and give it even more Customizable flair. These items can be anything from Weapon Mounts, to portholes and windows. While these pieces will still add Mass to your ship, but not all of the pieces will add to your Hull value.  

Habs are short for Habitat Modules.

We recommend reading each of the names of these items, as these interior sections will tell you what type of compartment is being installed. These Modules can have multiple variants, which show a variety of personalization options, such as living quarters or kitchens, and can place other crafting tables inside of your ship.

If you need to connect a landing bay to a cockpit, but don't have a way to connect them naturally, you may look into using a Hab module.

You can take just about everything with you, but you don't have to carry it in your pockets all the time. An optional but very helpful module would be adding a Cargo Hold to your ship. This module allows you to drop off items from your inventory and store them on your ship. This will help you if you need to deliver items from one planet to another, or if you have a lot items you would like to sell to vendors after going out to explore.

While this will add Mass to your ship and make it heavier, it can also help you collect treasures and resources before you need to sell or offload items. This makes your longer voyages alot easier if you don't need to backtrack and get rid of items after every trip. It has been rumored that there is a special shielding for your cargo that protects any contraband from being detected by a scan.

==Check your flight errors==

You can press the Start button on Controller, or C on Keyboard to check your Flight errors. Any red errors that appear mean that the ship will not be able to operate until this issue is resolved, any yellow errors that appear are critical errors that are worth your attention, however your ship should be able to fly without this issue being resolved.

This handy tool will tell you every necessary part you are missing, if you need more Engines to fly your Starship, or if you need to have particular pieces placed in a certain way, such as a Docker needing to be the highest piece on top of your ship, or that your Landing Bay and Docking station both have to find a way to connect to your cockpit. This is truly an invaluable tool while creating your favorite vessel to travel the stars.

You can have up to 3 different types of weapons on your ship, but this doesn't mean that you can only have 3 weapons on a ship. If you decide to make yourself a no-nonsense Dreadnaught filled with as many Missile, Laser and Ballistic weapons as possible, you are able to do so, as long as you have the Credits, and the space. You will need to remove one of those 3 weapon types, if you want to be able to add any other weapon types (like an Electromagnetic type Weapon).

Once you have the weapons attached to your actual Starship, you'll need to assign them. While in the Editor mode, press Start on controller, or C on Keyboard, and this will bring up your flight errors, but you can also press the Left or Right Bumpers to move to the next menu to set up your Weapons. This way you can assign your weapons to one of the specific weapon buttons. If your weapon is not assigned here, they will not fire.

While using everything above to get the basics of ship building, as you level up, you may want to use better Ship Modules, or pilot other ships that were previously unavailable to you. As you level up, you can put skill points in certain Skills to give you more module options and improve your ship overall.

Starship Design - This skill in the Tech tree allows the installation of improved ship modules, giving you better parts to work with as you level this skill up

Piloting - as you level this skill up you will eventually unlock the ability to pilot or use class B and C Ships, and ship modules.

As you level up these skills and explore, you'll also find some other Ship Vendors off in other cities, here are a few just to give you a few places to look out for:

Stroud-Eklund Showroom in Neon City

Jasmine Durand in The Key