Great station designer (use out of game?)

[RainerPrem]

Hi,

I only hope I will not be forced to design fabulous stations while my freighters run into Xenon ambushes.

PLEASE, take this great piece of user interface out of the game and let me design the stations offline, importing them when needed.

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Rainer

[Zetoss]

Option 1: Let your manager build the station automatically depending on what would give profitsss.
Option 2: Save game, take all the time you want to design station and save the template, load game and load template. (edit: this hinges on the templates or plans or what they're called not being stuck inside each game save file, maybe someone knows how that works and can fill us in?)

[Lc4Hunter]

Hi,

I only hope I will not be forced to design fabulous stations while my freighters run into Xenon ambushes.

PLEASE, take this great piece of user interface out of the game and let me design the stations offline, importing them when needed.

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Rainer

And why do you think your ships will permanently fly into xenon ambushes and you will never have the time to design a station?
I´m completely against this idea because ist destroys a part of the immersion in my optinion.
Building and of course designing stations is part of the game and it has to bei IN the game. Not sure if you´re able to pause while designing the station... however, it has to be in the game...

[linolafett]

At least at the moment, it i possible to pause the game and still design the station.
I think you are overestimating the time it needs to create/modify a station compared to how ofteh your assets get attacked by xenon.

[RainerPrem]

At least at the moment, it i possible to pause the game and still design the station.
I think you are overestimating the time it needs to create/modify a station compared to how ofteh your assets get attacked by xenon.

Hi,

the "Xenon ambush" was only an exaggerated example of things that happen (especially in X:Rebirth) while I'm just doing something lengthy. I'm surely not the only one who wants to build esthetically compelling stations. Clicking under hard pressure doesn't go together well with this urge.

But being able to design while the game is paused is certainly enough.

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Rainer

[RainerPrem]

Hi,

I only hope I will not be forced to design fabulous stations while my freighters run into Xenon ambushes.

PLEASE, take this great piece of user interface out of the game and let me design the stations offline, importing them when needed.

cu
Rainer

And why do you think your ships will permanently fly into xenon ambushes and you will never have the time to design a station?
I´m completely against this idea because ist destroys a part of the immersion in my optinion.
Building and of course designing stations is part of the game and it has to bei IN the game. Not sure if you´re able to pause while designing the station... however, it has to be in the game...

Sure? Imagine you are not able to pause the game, took half an hour to design a nice station, and then you get hit by a missile.

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Rainer

[Lc4Hunter]

Then you have chosen the wrong location to sit and design your station
Sorry, i don´t think your example is very realistically.
Btw such a situatuin should be a reason to think about how to avoid such situations ingame. It´s not the right way to solve this issue by exporting the function to an external program because it disturbs the gameflow.

[Vandragorax]

Hopefully Egosoft will allow modders to get involved modding aspects of the station blueprint designer anyway, so it's likely that some form of "import/export" will be available even if not officially

Also pausing as Lino suggests is already in the game seems like a perfect solution so no need to panic!

[enenra]

Station blueprints seem like the perfect thing to be able to share on the Steam Workshop.

Just saying.

@devs

[Ketraar]

Station blueprints seem like the perfect thing to be able to share on the Steam Workshop.

This is an excellent suggestion. Maybe even editable "build trees" can be shared so I could load them up and tweak ingame.

MFG

Ketraar

[Len5]

I think you are overestimating the time it needs to create/modify a station compared to how ofteh your assets get attacked by xenon.

When you already own many stations and ships, chances are big that your attention is requested somewhere else and you have to quickly abort your designing stage, then maybe prevent a ship from being destroyed and then start the design again from scratch.
Things like this have happened for me in other X games and it's not a fun element.

[ezra-r]

Such an odd request... but it brought something cool from @CBJ, if designing can be complex (at least if you want to do supercool layouts) being able to pause the game while on it would be a great addition

[Killjaeden]

Is it possible to rotate the view? In the demo you could only see from top down - which would make it a bit difficult to create more vertical layouts.

[ezra-r]

Is it possible to rotate the view? In the demo you could only see from top down - which would make it a bit difficult to create more vertical layouts.

Bernd said you can rotate the view.

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Is it possible to rotate the view? In the demo you could only see from top down - which would make it a bit difficult to create more vertical layouts.

Passing on a reply from Devs: The camera can be rotated every direction, so rotating to a side view is possible. A reset button to return to full top-down view is also available.

[Fedora01]

I would honestly assume that there'd be an option to minimize the station window and go about your business, but I don't see that as something that would need to be done to often.
Taking LU as an example, unless the OCV or Phanon Corp is running absolutely rampant, you're assets will stay fairly safe.