Shipyard Supplemental Station

[Rage4Me_Scav]

Shipyard Supplemental Station

Each Leg is Self Sufficient; meaning, as it is being built, you can use it. 8 Legs per level. 6 levels (currently). Room for 1 or 2 more levels at the bottom. Basically 48 self sufficient stations in one.

Its got 1524 Modules (almost everything) and costs about $1.1 Billion space bucks... but if you are building "this" station your probably capable of feeding it yourself.

Good Luck Out There!
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[DJ Daf]

Thank you so much, how do you fella's do all this excellent work? i made one and it was so tacky But this is awsome work, thanks again

[Targ Collective]

*smiles* It's not as difficult as you might think, or I wouldn't be able to do it.

Tricks to bear in mind:

Rotation of modules can allow you to build them upside down or snapping to the side instead of top down.

Aesthetic standards require a plan - I use two degrees of symmetry, width and depth.

Templates. Let's say you want to build a Terran station. Build a docking array and a vertical spire down. Then build a grid of Terran Cross modules to width and depth. You goal is to use all the build area, so you might need to recentre the first module. I used this method on all my stations except the Ionforge and Teslaboom.

You can copy and snap station modules in groups. Useful if you want to go multistory. You might need the connector piece to be the first build piece instead of the last one, but that's easy enough to do with build order manipulation.

If you remove a piece and then replace it it will have the same position but snap to the end of the build queue. Useful for optimising build orders so a station will pay for itself as much as possible during construction.

You can copy and paste entire pieces of the build queue. So my four-armed stations look symmetrical because they are. Pasting will autoselect the last piece in the cluster, not the first, So you'll need to select the first module in your pasted build chain, make any positional changes, and snap it where you want it.

The Boron and Terran stations look nicer. Most factions don't have high aesthetic standards. And non Terran and Boron factories are especially ugly.

Capital docks, including maintenance and construction docks, are a pain because of the vast amounts of approach clearance they need. Put these docks on the sides or top, out of the way.