X4 Foundations Vanilla - Tachyon Developments 'Shipwrights' Heavy Fleet Logistics Station

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If you like my designs, you can find a full list by searching the forums for Tachyon Developments for production stations and Tachyon Ops for various military stations. Tachyon Developments - Faster than the Speed of Light! Tachyon Ops - Terran Intervention Done Right! Sometimes the line between civilian and military blurs; in these cases Tachyon Developments will be used for stations that do not specifically have a solely military role.


Tachyon Ops proudly presents the 'Shipwrights' Megastructure Shipyard.


This shipyard is pain to your patience, pain to your graphics card. It will take a very long time to build and is not optimised for in sector gameplay because of its sheer scale. However it will guarantee that you will never run out of resources or ships again because it has a truly mind boggling storage capacity.


The station consists of 2 Terran XL ship fabs, 12 Terran L ship fabs, 20 terran S/M ship fabs, storage that pushes the boundaries of sense, welfare modules and living quarters. In addition the station has ample docking potential and space to expand more docks if you need them.


This Shipyard is not self sufficient, but is aesthetically nonoffensive with one line of symmetry. Pair up with Mandala stations for supply of Terran goods. Or search the forums for Community of Planets fabrication solutions. At time of writing Tachyon Developments only has Terran builds from the architect's desk, but has OWP and Terran Economy blueprints for your browsing pleasure.


The station comes in four variants split by two properties - U variants are unarmed, M variants apply shields and tracking launchers to the storage modules, W values include gambling dens and casinos in the blueprint.

U modules can be upgraded to M and W tags on both pathways without dropping or rebuilding pieces.


Build order is not optimised fully because of nonlinear edits during construction that changed build precedent. I do not have the patience to fix that and did not use a double draft to roll back precedent errors because that would have been torture with a project of this sheer scale.


The station will need rank 20 to buy the blueprints and they will be very expensive. As expensive as they will be they will be dwarfed by the sheer price of the station itself. The Welfare Modules require a HQ subplot to unlock. In the interest of availability the Terraforming-gated Pheremone Art Gallery was not included in the blueprints, but feel free to add it to the design if you wish.


Addendum: the first version of the build had bad precedent and the wrong storage modules. In addition performance was a major issue. Build precedence should now be cleaner, though not perfect, and I have reduced the storage to three fifths which should make this station more viable. I'm putting the new draft online now for your pleasure and will playtest immediately in case this needs further refinements.

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Addendum addendum: I placed Boron L fabricators for which I am truly sorry. I'll reek of squid for weeks for this. I've fixed it and rationalised the build order pretty much fully - first stage of the build is connectors and docks, then the shipyards go in, then storage, quarters and welfare last.

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