Buying Ships

You must first find a shipyard, a huge station encountered in some busy sectors. Make sure your are at peace with its owner, then go to the "Details" menu and click one of the buttons to order either small or large ships. Once you paid the construction price, you don’t get your ship immediately : you must wait for the production to end. You can check the production progress by going to the same menu again.

If the shipyard was already building a ship in that production line, you must wait for that task to end before see your ship’s production begin.

There are two other reasons a ship production might not start :


 * if the company owning the shipyard has not enough money (this happens only to ships it builds for itself, not ships ordered by a third party) ;
 * if the shipyard doesn't have the resources needed to build the ship in its cargo bay (you can help it to get them by selling missing resources to the station).

Building ships is more straightforward once you have your own shipyard.