Ship construction speed - how does it work?

[KopiG]

So I have zero clue what defines it. Sometimes my Raptor is 3 hours to make, sometimes its 1 hours 45 minutes. Sometimes the fighters are made under 2 minutes, while others are parallel building but for 15 minutes. How does construction work? Anybody could shred me some light in this matter please? For example, can I reduce the construction time of my Raptor if I have more XL Shipyards? ALso does it matter if I have more than 1 S/M Wharfs? How does this whole thing work?

[Falcrack]

Number of builder drones at the shipyard determines this. More builder drones, up to the maximum needed, will increase the build speed. With multiple projects being worked on simultaneously, you need more drones. I forget the exact number, something like 5 build drones per S ship, 10 per M, and 40 per large. My numbers are wrong I am sure, maybe someone who knows better could correct this.

Projects started first will get build drones assigned. If multiple projects are started at once, all with the same theoretical build time, but there are too few drones, the first to get started will get the drones assigned to them while those later in the queue will take longer because they do not have any available drones.

[Buzz2005]

construction drones, or builder drones, as I see L shipyards use up 20 of those per ship, XL i think 30

S/M ships use 10 per ship

so basically get more builder drones

[KopiG]

Does it matter how many Wharfs and Shipyards I have? I am building my 3rd Wharf. So I guess its stupid to build more Wharfs then as only builder drones matter?

[Buzz2005]

number of construction modules don't matter at all, with more of them you need more drones so all slots build at fastest time

[Rei Ayanami]

I have to say that having construction drones speeds things up a LOT. Just today I built a shipyard in HOP area and forgot to put any drones in the shipyard. When HOP ordered a destroyer the build time was longer than an hour. When I noticed this I built 90 construction drones in my station overview window. Directly after doing this I looked again at the ship construction queue and the remaining ship construction time suddenly was only about 6 minutes.

[Panos]

So I have zero clue what defines it. Sometimes my Raptor is 3 hours to make, sometimes its 1 hours 45 minutes. Sometimes the fighters are made under 2 minutes, while others are parallel building but for 15 minutes. How does construction work? Anybody could shred me some light in this matter please? For example, can I reduce the construction time of my Raptor if I have more XL Shipyards? ALso does it matter if I have more than 1 S/M Wharfs? How does this whole thing work?

If supplies are present then the amount build drones. Otherwise when the supplies to build are delivered.
This is not X3 where ships were magically grew on the shipyards. If there are materials missing they will be delayed until they are delivered.

[KopiG]

So guys, it doesnt matter how many Shipyards and WHarfs I build? ONLY the drone count matters (up to a maximum as you stated)?
Do getting more Shipyards and WHarfs help with more parallel build slots?

[Falcrack]

So guys, it doesnt matter how many Shipyards and WHarfs I build? ONLY the drone count matters (up to a maximum as you stated)?
Do getting more Shipyards and WHarfs help with more parallel build slots?

ONLY the drone count matters for build speed. Building more wharfs and shipyards only helps with the number of ships that can be built in parallel. But of course, if there are insufficient resources, it doesn't matter if you have build drones or not.