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So i summoned the HQ wrek, and got a teladi build ship next to it, i ordered to build a landing platform and its half-way built as i can see graphically, but then it just stopped.
what am i missing here?
Do i need some form of landing or attachment equioment for large ships to dock and bring in the needed materials or something?
Which game? This subforum is for the whole X series.

X4 it seems.
Post edited October 20, 2019 by Themken
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Themken: Which game? This subforum is for the whole X series.

X4 it seems.
yes its X4, i thought i was pretty clear on that as you cant "summon" HQs in other games
also you cant built landing platforms in other X games
Post edited October 20, 2019 by OptiSTR
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Themken: Which game? This subforum is for the whole X series.

X4 it seems.
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OptiSTR: yes its X4, i thought i was pretty clear on that as you cant "summon" HQs in other games
also you cant built landing platforms in other X games
Stations automatically create a "build storage" when you purchase a plot. The build storage has docking for both S/M and L ships.

As long as you place enough money into the construction budget, the station will automatically generate orders for resources at the price levels you have selected. (It can take several minutes before the orders are generated.) NPCs will eventually supply it. Things that can slow this down are:

* a galactic shortage of a particular resource will cause many stations to bid max price for a particular resource; free traders will accept the closest contract to them with the highest value, which might never be your station until galactic production of that resource is brought better into balance;
* the HOP keeps trying to sell some resource to you, and their freighters are getting blown up before they arrive;
* you don't have enough money in your account, or you are underbidding the current market equilibrium for some resource.

While they did add an option for us to assign one of our ships to shop for build storage, this doesn't seem to work in practice. I still have to manually order my ships to supply some resources to build storage.
Oh, and I guess I'll add another episode on how to be a space pirate:

You can actually blow up the individial resource containers in a build storage. So if a new station is under construction, after 20-30 minutes, there might be a fair bit of resources in its build storage.

You can manuever a large freighter within 1-2k of the build storage and then use a S/M ship to pop the build storage containers. Order the L Freighter to collect drops, and it will send out its cargo drones to ferry the resources into its hold. (They are quite slow, so you'll probably want 9-10 of them on the freighter.)

This can net you a few million worth in construction resources, which you can then transfer into one of your own build storages.

Stations in unclaimed sectors are probably best for this, or stations that are enemies to the controlling gov't, e.g. if the Paranid start building a defense station in Pontifex's Claim or vice versa with Pious Mists II.

The official slogan of X4 is "TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD and THINK." The thinking mostly seems to involve moral ambiguity.