What to focus manufacturing on?

[TheCloverLord]

Hello my fellow StarMadians,
I've started many survival games but never finished them due to my never being able to decide what to focus on making. What things should I make in my factories?

PS (unrelated) How do I stop lagging on planets? I literally cannot go near them on my laptop, and asteroids don't give me the resources I need.

 

[Jaaskinal]

Blow up planets before you mine them. Turn your max segments down. Reduce texture size if you haven't already.
Alpha ships are a good start, things that can kill other things very, very quickly.

 

[TheCloverLord]

What are "alpha ships"?

 

[starhaiden]

ship that do a high amount of damage in one shot

 

[Megacrafter127]

ship that do a high amount of damage in one shot

and that have a long reload time.
Basically their tactic is to finish opponents in 1 shot, if that fails they are more or less weaponless.

 

[jayman38]

I'd say focus manufacturing on shield systems. Those seem to be the hardest to make, so you want to keep the focus on those to avoid wasting those precious resources on something less deserving.

 

[sayerulz]

Hull is good too. A strong hull will save your ship when shields fail, and make you more or less immune to ion based ships . It is a pain to make the right color though.

 

[Edymnion]

Well, it depends.

What do you want to do?

If you just want money, make expensive modules/computers (Warp Gate and Explosive spring to mind). If you want to make big ships, make hull/armor.

There is no point to manufacturing just for the sake of manufacturing. Build towards a goal.

 

[StormWing0]

Lets see my checklist usually involves something to the effect of:

• Jump Drive
• Largest Miner Server or SP will let me make
• AMS Turrets
• Station
• Gates
• Quick Deploying Fleet In One Ships (Basically a single ship that is really several ships docked that look like one ship)
• Idiot Traps (Anti Personnel Traps for people that aren't invited to an area)
• Shielding
• Fully Automated Factories (Yes the kind I can spam deploy without going crazy and are usually built into any BP for stations I got)

This is in no particular order but jump drives and miners are usually the first things I go for and I normally setup shop in area it would take trolls a while to get to.