New player struggling

[capnq]

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Tried building empty DD's and retrofitting them but it said could only increase value by 50% or something so I had to scrap the lot and start again.

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You can make an intermediate design within the cost limit, then retrofit to that, repeating as needed until you can build the final design you want.

Note that the new design only has to be under 150% of the combined total minerals, organics and radioactives, not the individual totals.

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I normally base my ships on planets because of supply. I used to base them at worm holes but then have to remember to keep getting them resupplied.

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A ship only uses supplies when it moves or fires*; you can park it somewhere indefinitely.

*Or uses a component that uses supplies, such as [edit to correct error] a Cloaking Device.

[ 11 April 2002: Message edited by: capnq ]