Production Rules

To build something in production, you must first only build stuff that your faction owns. If you are independent, you can build anything. In the trade section if a ship becomes available, then anybody from any faction can buy it regardless of the faction ownership.

To build, you must be on a planet that produces that category of ship/item. For example, you can only build capital ships on planets that build capital ships (see planets).

Factions can produce ships with faction money, but the ships/items can only be given to players if for use of faction. It is not their personal ship and therefore must be returned to the faction. If it isn't, chances are the faction will hunt you down and make you pay!

You can only build on planets owned by your faction, or that are independent or have no ownership.

With regards to NPCs, if you personally are going somewhere with a ship, you can replace the Capital Ship Commander NPC with yourself. With starfighters and other ships, you can replace one of the pilots if you are personally flying in the ship.

if you are in hyperspace, you cannot build things. it is considered that you are occupied and are not yet at a place where items can be built. the moment you go to hyperspace, you cannot trade, produce, research etc. if you have stuff under construction beforehand, it continues to be built even though you are no longer at the planet.

do note that custom parts is only for building your own ship from scratch. there are no upgrades in place yet so do not buy custom parts for a ship that is already built or offered in production

upgrades can be bought on all production planets. remember to specify which ship you are upgrading and update your stats accordingly