How does one calculate how much credits ones ship costs?

[overtoast]

I'd like to know so that I can optimize cost. I am making a series of buses, because I wanna put em in a universe of my making, and I'm intending them to be cheap. The series has gotten relatively extravagant because of the increasing size, so lighting, thrusters, power, etc. has to be taken into account. Is there an easy way to calculate cost or do I just have to wing it?

 

[CyberTao]

Well, you can go and check the price table (found on the 2nd launcher screen, under modding > Block editor > Price Table tab) for credits. Base price in ores? I don't think there is a way to easily check that. Maybe someone can make a small program that does that someday. *coughMegacough*

 

[Megacrafter127]

*coughMegacough*

I was called?

 

[CyberTao]

I was called?

Well, you were trying to make a BP editor thing at once point iirc. Wouldn't be too hard to make said program also count blocks and give a price in Blocks/Ores/Credits? :d
/RollsAway

 

[karkinosz]

Open up the launcher, under tools ship catalog manager. Third column is cost. You can see the cost of a completed ship from that.

 

[overtoast]

Open up the launcher, under tools ship catalog manager. Third column is cost. You can see the cost of a completed ship from that.

Thanks, this answers my question completely.

 

[Krougal]

Open up the launcher, under tools ship catalog manager. Third column is cost. You can see the cost of a completed ship from that.

The thing is what is it calculated against? It doesn't seem to be accurate compared to buying the blocks from a shop (even at base price)

 

[Keptick]

You can also go in your configs and switch blueprints from items to credits, that makes it so that blueprints are spawned directly from credits, which is beneficial in your case as the catalog will display the price instead of the mass.

At least removing the bigger blob ones would make a big difference.