Kauf und Aufwertung von Schiffen

Schiffsbezogene Stationen

Schiffe werden auf Bestellung hergestellt und von Schiffshändlern verkauft, die sich auf Werften und Shipyards befinden. Der Schiffshändler kann kontaktiert werden, indem man mit der rechten Maustaste auf die Werft/Shipyard in der Karte klickt (Option Schiff kaufen), oder persönlich in der Wartungsstation für Fertigungsmodule (ihre Büros haben auch Transporterräume für Schnellreisen). Ausrüstungsdocks sind die andere schiffsbezogene Station.

Werften, Ausrüstungsdocks, können Schiffe auf verschiedene Weise unterstützen:

1. Software, Besatzung und Ausrüstung
2. Zur Zeit (v1.50) ist es nicht möglich, einen Kapitän über das Buy/Upgrade/Repair Menu (siehe unten) direkt zu einem bestehenden Schiff hinzuzufügen.
3. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt (v1.50) gibt es ein Piraten-Ausrüstungsdock, das nur große und extra große Schiffe bedienen kann.

Um Nicht-Kauf-Aufgaben zu initiieren, wählen Sie das entsprechende Schiff (linker Mausklick), öffnen Sie das Kontextmenü für eine obige Station (rechter Mausklick) und wählen Sie die Option "Upgrade / Reparieren bei....".

Schiffbau-Standorte:

• Kleine und mittlere Schiffe werden auf ihren Landeplätzen gebaut.
• Große und extra große Schiffe werden in riesigen Dockstationen an den Seiten der Stationen gebaut.

Standorte für Upgrades/Reparaturen von Schiffen:

• Kleine und mittlere Schiffe werden auf ihren Landeplätzen aufgerüstet bzw. repariert.
• Große und extra große Schiffe:
• Kapitäne, die zur Nachrüstung/Reparatur angewiesen wurden, verwenden die Andockhalterungen.
• Spielergesteuerte Schiffe, die manuell angedockt sind, werden an ihrem Pier aufgerüstet bzw. repariert.

Allgemeine Schiffsmöglichkeiten nach Größenklasse

1. Einige Kleinhandelsschiffe (und Xenon-Großschiffe) haben keine vorderen Waffen.
2. Kleine und mittlere Mining-Schiffe können Mining-Laser montieren.
3. Mittlere und große Mining-Schiffe können Mining-Türme montieren.
4. Kann eine Vielzahl von Drohnen und 1 oder mehr Schiffe mit kleineren Größenklassen unterstützen.

Das Menü "Schiffe kaufen" / "Upgrade/Reparatur"

Hierfür wird ein einziges, universelles Menü verwendet, das im Folgenden beschrieben wird. Nach der Erstellung eines Schiffsdesigns ist es möglich, einzelne oder mehrere Kopien des zu bauenden Schiffes zu bestellen. Schiffsentwürfe können für die zukünftige Verwendung gespeichert werden. Bestimmte fortschrittliche Schiffe und Ausrüstungen erfordern den Erwerb entsprechender Fraktionslizenzen.

Dieses Menü wird im unteren Bild angezeigt.

Innerhalb des Menüs sehen Sie:

• Modell des ausgewählten Schiffes (Zentralbereich):
  
  • Diese kann gedreht und vergrößert und verkleinert werden.
  • Auswählbare Slots für Hauptausrüstung / Oberflächenelemente:
    • Weiße Füllung = leer
    • Grüne Füllung = aktuell ausgewählter Eintrag im Tab-Menü links (siehe unten)
    • Gelber Rand = voll
  Optionen für den oberen mittleren Bereich:
  
  • Schiffsklasse
  • Schiffstyp

  • Halbzufällige Default Loadouts

  • Speicheroption für spielerdefinierte Loadouts

  • Eine Reset-Taste zum Abbrechen jeder Drehung, die auf das Schiffsmodell angewendet wird.

  • Undo und Redo Tasten
• Tab-basiertes Menü unten links für Kaufoptionen:
  

  • Hauptausrüstung (Small / Medium Schiffe) / Surface Elements (Large/XL Ships):

    • Motoren (kleine und große):
      
      • Performance in straight lines (all ships)
      • Einige kleine Schiffe (Nova, Falcon und Guillemot) können sie so einstellen, dass sie die Manövrierfähigkeit unterstützen.
    • Schilde
    • Nach vorne gerichtete Waffen
    • Geschütztürme
  • Triebwerke (viele und kleine):
    
    • Manövrierfähigkeit (Gier-, Neigungs-, Roll- und Strafeleistung)
  • Software
  • Consumables (Raketen, Drohnen, Deployables und Gegenmaßnahmen)
  • Crew (Captain und Service Personal, die die Effizienz des Schiffes verbessern)
  • Reparieren ( bei Beschädigung)
  • Wenn eine Registerkarte ein rotes Symbol hat, enthält sie Pflichtfelder (rot markiert).
• Eine Einkaufsliste mit ausgewählten Kaufoptionen oben rechts.
• Schiffsstatistiken, basierend auf ausgewählten Kaufoptionen in der unteren Mitte.
• Infos zu Ihrem bestehenden Kontostand und zu fehlenden Komponenten unten rechts.

Der Kaufen/Upgraden/Reparieren Prozess

Please note that at this time (v1.50), it is not possible to directly add a Captain to an existing ship via the Buy/Upgrade/Repair Menu. They can still however be gained by manually hiring an NPC on the same Station as the Ship, or remotely promoting promoting another member of the crew to Captain.

Steps taken to buy, repair or upgrade ships:

• If Buying a new Ship, select a Ship Size first, and then a Ship to display it in the main screen
• Select desired Equipment, Software, Consumables, Crew and Repair options:
  • From Tabs down the left (all equipping options)
  • Via Context Menus  on the Ship model (Main Equipment / Surface Elements, only)
• Red Tabs contain one or more compulsory items (marked red within)
• Available equipping options are context-dependent:
  • Missile Turrets and Mining weapons will only be listed for ships that can mount them
  • Missiles will only be listed for ships that have a Missile Launcher added to the design
  • Drones will only be listed for ships capable of supporting them
• Some listed ships and equipment require a Faction Licence:
  • If the Licence is not owned, the item is greyed out and marked with a star
  • Advanced weapons require a Military Equipment License (available at rank 10)
  • Large / Extra Large Military ships require a Capital Ship License (available at rank 20)
• Currently-selected items (All-Round Mk1 in image above) are highlighted:
  • In pale blue within related Tab (Engines in image above; also highlighted pale blue) 
  • On the Ship model (Engines, shields and weapons, only; see above)
• Some Ships can fit multiple versions of things within tabs

Once happy with the ship design:

• Select "Add to shopping list" (top-right shopping list)
• To order multiple ships of this design, adjust the -/+ icons (top-right shopping list)
• To purchase, click "Confirm Order" (bottom-left area)
• The ship(s) will then be built over the next few minutes if the station has enough resources. 

Understanding Delays and Ware Shortages 

Wharfs, Shipyards and Equipment Docks are operated by the main Factions. They produce Ships and equipment out of Wares produced at manufacturing stations. The production processes take place in the Slots where ships dock, which means that the player can watch the claytronic-based construction process if they wish (the same visual process can be seen with station module construction).

Delays to ship building/modification can arise when:

• Player-owned ships fill up available docks
• The station suffers relevent Wares Shortages
• All Construction Slots are busy

Wares Shortages

If one of these stations is already missing some Wares needed to build/modify a Ship, those missing Wares will be listed on the lower-right side of the Menu. If your build/modify plan needs some Wares that the station doesn't have enough of, they will be added to the existing list, or the list will be displayed before you are able to select "Confirm Order". In the following image shortages for 3 Wares can be seen:

As also seen in the image above, the warning "Not enough resources on the station, order may take a long time" is displayed.

Available Construction Slots

Wharfs, Shipyards and Equipment Docks have finite Construction Slots:

• Small and Medium Ship Slots:
  • 8 on Wharfs
  • 8 on Equipment Docks
• Large Ship Slots:
  • 2 on most Shipyards
    • None on the Alliance of Worlds Shipyard
  • 2 on most Equipment Docks
    • None on a Pirate Equipment Dock
• Extra Large Slots:
  • 1 on Shipyards
  • 2 on Equipment Docks

If all Construction Slots are full, new Ship build/modification orders will be added to a Waiting List. To determine if the Slots are full, expand the station's "Ships in construction" info within the Map. This is illustrated in the following image where only one Large ship listed (player-owned), which means the Shipyard could make/modify one additional Large Ship and an Extra Large Ship.

The next image illustrates how the above image would look with both Ware Shortages (two NPC Faction Destroyers block the Large Slots) and an active Waiting List (a player-ordered Magnetar is #1 in the list).

Cancelling a Buy/Upgrade/Repair

Ship purchases:

• If a Ship is already under construction it is not possible to stop the process
• If a construction of a Ship has not started yet (e.g. due to Ware shortages or being in a Waiting List), it is possible to stop the process and recoup the credits:
  • Open the station's "Ships under construction" info (see images above), right-click on the listed Ship in question, and select the available option

Loadout Options

• Engines (determines ship max linear speed and acceleration):

  • All-Round: Available for all ships with no weaknesses

  • Combat:    Available for S and M ships, sacrificing Travel Mode speed for improved Standard and Boost speed 

  • Travel:       Available for S and M ships, sacrificing Boost speed for Travel Mode speed

• Thrusters (determines how fast a ship yaws/turns, pitches, rolls and strafes):
  • All-Round: Available for all ships with no weaknesses
  • Combat:    Available for S and M ships, sacrificing yaw/turning for better pitching and rolling. [Yaw is side-to-side movement (rudder in an aircraft); pitch is up/down movement; roll is twist, all aligned to the ship's primary axis (usually longitudally). These can be combined with strafe for highly effective combat maneuver] - Sparky pls remove link tag (unless you want to use it elsewhere ofc); I can't find it here! - tks Snafu
• Shield Generators (determine the shield capacity and regeneration rate for protecting the hull damage):
  • Some Engines, Weapons and Turrets may be grouped with shields that protect them
• Main Guns and Gun Turrets
  • Beam: Low DPS damage but accurate beam
  • Bolt Repeater: Rapid fire weapon that does high burst damage but has poor heat management 
  • Ion Blaster: Argon weapon for removing shields without causing a lot of hull damage
  • Plasma Cannon: Long range weapon with a slow projectile speed
  • Pulse Laser: All rounder with a good balance of damage, range, fire rate, accuracy and heat management
  • Shard Battery: Launches a short range burst of multiple high damage projectiles which moderately scatter at longer distances
• Main Missile Launchers and Missile Turrets
  
  • Dumbfire Launcher: Launches Dumbfire and Cluster consumables as missile projectiles
  • Torpedo Launcher: Launches Torpedo consumables as missile projectiles
  • Tracking Launcher: Launches EMP, Guided, Heatseeker, Smart and Swarm consumables as missile projectiles
• Other weapons
  
  • Mining Drill: Weak beam that does bonus damage to Asteroids (main gun and turret)
  • Main Battery: Long-ranged Destroyer weapons (only the racial variant can be used on the race's Destroyer)
• Software
  • Docking Computer: makes landing easier (see here for further info)
  • Flight Assist Software: Mandatory upgrade (assists by automatically compensating for drift when using Flight Assist Mode)
  • Long-range Scanner Software: Mandatory upgrade (see below) 
  • Object Scanner: Mandatory upgrade with Scan Mode (Basic Scanner gains info about ships and modules, and obtain discounts and commissions from data leaks; Police Scanner gains further info about objects, and can obtain Blueprints from some data leaks)
  • Targeting Computer Extension: Allows the targeting of small objects (e.g. debris and containers) via the HUD and radar
  • Trading Computer Extension: Maintains a link to trade info offered by recently-visited stations for a limited period

Missile Ammo

Ships can carry a finite number of consumable missiles for their missile launchers and missile turrets. The max number of which is listed in the Ship Builder UI and in the Ship Info menu. Missiles can be replenished at Equipment Docks and, depending on ship size, Wharfs and Shipyards. Once missile stores are depleted, the "Out of ammo" warning greats us. Info in missiles themselves has begun to be added to the Missiles page of the main X4: Foundations Wiki.

Crafting

Some wares collected do not go into the storage of the flown ship but into a separate inventory for the avatar of the player. These wares are used for completing missions, special actions and crafting an assortment of tools to give the player an additional edge. The player inventory can be found under the Inventory tab of the Player Information menu.

Near Traders and Black Marketeers there is usually a Crafting Bench which can be interacted with open a Crafting Menu. Items to craft only appear once the player has collected one of the components for the recipe. Select a ware to craft and then click the Craft item button before selecting the number to craft with the slider which appears and then confirming by clicking the Craft Item button again. Some crafting components can only be obtained by performing specific tasks like mining or combat.

It is also possible to further customise favourite ships by applying Ship Mods to them. Ship Mods come in 3 tiers: Basic, with a modest bonus, Enhanced with a larger bonus at the expense of a penalty to a related parameter, and Exceptional with a much larger bonus but penalties to to related parameters. When created, the size if each bonus or penalty is random, within defined ranges.

To apply a Ship Mod requires the ship to be docked at a station. Ship Mods may be dropped by destroyed ships and when they do, they can be installed through the Redesign menu in panels in front of landing pads. Alternatively, they can be crafted and installed using a Workbench found near most Ship Dealers, using designs which need to be unlocked through Research (Player Headquarter needed). Installed Ship Mods can be salvaged to regain their ingredients.

Personnel

Every ship has a limited capacity to host crew. Crew consists of 3 types of NPC:

• Captain (Pilot for smaller ships): Enables a ship to be remotely given orders. Skill points contribute most to ship efficiency.
• Crewman: Skill points contribute slightly to ship efficiency. 
• Marines: Used to claim abandoned ships and board other ships and stations or to repel enemy boarding attempts.

On stations there are also :

• Managers: Give orders to subordinate ships

A skilled captain will unlock more maneuvers, fight and trade better and will unlock new options for the DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR of the ship.

Ship crew management is an essential part of improving your fleet's abilities. The skill of Service Crew will also improve the rate of ship actions and the quality of steering, repairing, aiming, trading and fighting (Everything gets better with a good crew!) although their skills will not count as much as those of the captain/pilot. The sum quality of a ship's crew is increased with the number of people and with the SKILL of each individual.

Passengers from missions also count as temporary crew, & need (crew) space in the transport ship to fulfil the mission acceptance requirements: if you've filled your ship with crew they'll refuse to board, claiming 'no space for me' or similar. Fire/reassign a crewmember to another ship, or change ships to one with a free crew slot to allow the passenger their comforts

Everybody Can Be A Captain (if he just has to believe in himself)

Every person you hire, whether through the shipyard or wharf "UPGRADE SHIP" interface or by hiring individual people on platforms, can be assigned to any of the three categories, provided a vacant slot on the selected ship exists. This also means you can assign any marine or crew member to be a captain or manager. 

NOTE: unhired station crew NPCs will mostly be designated 'crewmember' despite their individual skillset (you may stumble across a hireable marine etc tho, although these are rare). Open the 'hire' dialog while chatting with them to see their full skillset, enabling you to assign them appropriately. All 'crewmembers' can be assigned to any job, so if you have a station needing a manager or a ship needing a pilot/captain/marine etc you can assign any NPC (your own or a new hire) to that job. They may not be good at it, but it fills the position if urgently required..

Skills

The quality of people in your crew is grouped by skill sets. These skills are always shown with star ratings from 0 to 5 stars. If you open the detail view of an individual crew member, you will find that their total skill is made up from individual types of skills such as: 

• Piloting
• Morale
• Management
• Engineering
• Boarding
  
  

How good an NPC then performs in any duty depends on these skills. While a CAPTAIN's overall performance depends mostly on PILOTING a marine depends more on his boarding strength. 

All NPCs improve through their MORALE however. 

Training Crew Or Marines

Crew improve their skills though learning by doing. Thus they all get better the longer they survive.

Marines improve their main boarding skill the most in actual boarding missions, while ordinary crew gets better in normal ship operations like trading. Surviving a fight can also improve the skills in many areas.

Digital Seminars

Digital seminars may be found as loot and sold at/to Item Traders. At this time (v1.50), they can not be used to train crew.