Has stationbuilding changed ?.

[Dreez]

Haven't played this game since 2019, other games took priority.
But when i played last, i ended with building a huge complex to secure the plating demand,
and despite providing my own resources and constantly having all demands met,
the entire complex took over 1 week of real time to build... a single module took over 20 minutes, the fastest one,
some modules took over an hour iirc.

So... now with Split vendetta and the Terran DLC released, i am very tempted in returning
for some serious spacegaming... but i'm not tempted sitting behind the screen for days,
watching my complexes taking place.

Has the time it takes to build stations been improved ?.

[JoeVN09]

Not officially, but there are a handful of mods that reduce things like build times and pilot levelling time. Check the Nexus, Steam Workshop page, and Egosoft's very own Scripting and Modding forum.

[Midnitewolf]

So... now with Split vendetta and the Terran DLC released, i am very tempted in returning
for some serious spacegaming... but i'm not tempted sitting behind the screen for days,
watching my complexes taking place.

Aren't you playing the wrong game because in the game I play, 90% of it is sitting behind the screen for days watching things take eons to happen

However, if that is the ONLY grindy thing you have an issue with, as the other poster said, there are quite a few mods that speed up module construction time. I think most I have seen speed it up by 10x.

[Artean]

Yup, mods is your answer if you can't stand the building times. For me, they are okey. I'm never in a hurry playing the x games. Quite the contrary.

[Ezarkal]

There used to be a bug where modules would suddenly take hours to build. This has been fixed.

The default building times are still what they were, though. 1-2 minute for a connector, 15-25 minutes for a production module, etc.

[KopiG]

If you hire builder watch out for the build times. The builders are sometimes defective (having few builder drones) so they will build twice as slow as a "normal" non-defective builder which has all its builder drones.

[grapedog]

If you hire builder watch out for the build times. The builders are sometimes defective (having few builder drones) so they will build twice as slow as a "normal" non-defective builder which has all its builder drones.

30 build drones is what you need to max build times.

[Dreez]

30 build drones is what you need to max build times.

So... ehhh. How do you check how many drones a construction ship has?. Or can you buy your own and fill it with drones ?.
It's been 2 years since i played so i don't remember some details and some might have changed.

[Raptor34]

30 build drones is what you need to max build times.

So... ehhh. How do you check how many drones a construction ship has?. Or can you buy your own and fill it with drones ?.
It's been 2 years since i played so i don't remember some details and some might have changed.

You scan the CV. Or if you're high rep it shows you all the details but sadly not on the choose CV screen, which they should probably change.
But buying your own is the best. Building is also excellent for training engineers.