Ship Building

Ship building is pretty straight forward stuff, but there are a few tips that I can give you to help you grow faster. I call the place where you build ships the "Shipyard." However, in the Facilities Center where you upgrade your buildings, it is called the Military Dock. As you upgrade your Military Dock, aka Shipyard, it will receive extra ship building queues at certain levels. Below is the full table of Military Dock levels:

First lets talk about ship types and tiers. There are 3 ship types: Frigates, Destroyers, and Cruisers. Frigates have an advantage over Cruisers which in turn have an advantage over Destroyers, and yes as you may have guessed by now, Destroyers have an advantage over Frigates. However, I haven't seen this advantage to have that great of an effect so I follow Kri's advice and build mostly Cruisers since they don't die as easily. In the beginning I was building a lot of Frigates, but they would die a lot and then I kept having to rebuild them, wasting time and resources. I do build some Destroyers to flush out my fleets a bit. I figure if I come against a frigate heavy fleet and don't want them to have the advantage over my Cruiser heavy fleet, then a good "meat-shield" of Destroyers should handle the Frigates nicely. View the gallery to see each type of ship at tier 7 and a Shipyard with 4 building queues.

As you progress through tech research, you will be able to build higher tiers of ships. It is not always in your best interest to simply build the highest tier of ship possible as they cost more and take more time to build. You can get a greater power per hour production ratio by building t1 or t2 ships when you are available to "babysit" your queues every 30 minutes to an hour. You want to keep your queues running always and not allow them to sit idle! When you will be away for several hours at work or sleeping, etc. then build the highest tier ships that you can.

The tier 2 Destroyers have the greatest carrying capacity per Leadership and cost ratio in the game. They are cheap and fast to build so you should build a lot of them to put with your Argo class fleetship for mining and gathering resources. They can also be used in your battle fleets to increase their capacity for hauling loot, but they will die more quickly than higher tiered ships.

There is a chance in battle that some ships will be damaged but survive and those can be repaired at the repair center next to your Shipyard. There are technologies that will bolster this recovery rate and higher tiered ships have a greater survivability rate. Repairing ships will require resources and some time, but far less than the costs of building them from scratch.

There are many technologies and other bonuses that affect ship building speed and strength. The Military tech tree is mixed up right now, I just caught this as I was making screenshots for the wiki. The first 7 techs' title and logo does not match the description and what the tech actually does. Not, to worry though, you only have to put 1 point into each tech to get through to the next section of the tree. I put in a ticket to tech support so hopefully they will straighten this out soon. I will try to cover all the technologies in greater detail on the Technology Research page. The main techs that I need to mention here for ship building and repair are:

* Development>Expand Dock: This will build more of the same ship type in each build queue, research to maximum level asap.
* Development>Spaceship Production Line Optimized: This will reduce the time to build ships, research to maximum level asap.
* Development>Fast Hull Sealing: The description of this tech is ambiguous but I believe it means that more ships will go to the repair bay instead of dying.
* Development>Dock Expansion: Again unclear description but I believe it means the repair bay can hold more ships at the same time.
* Development>Repair Layer Optimized: This makes the repairs faster.

### **Previous Page <<< | >>> Next Page**

This is your shipyard and repairbayTier 7 FrigateTier 7 Destroyer.Tier 7 Battleship.This is the Development thechnology tree - showing the techs discussed above.This is the Military tech tree where you research higher tiered ships and techs that strengthen each ship type.