{"id":83,"date":"2015-06-06T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reassemblyerect.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-07-10T19:50:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:50:53","slug":"make-a-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reassemblyerect.site\/archive\/2015\/06\/06\/make-a-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>All Our\u00a0Base Belong to Us.<\/h1>\n<p>Making a station is easy. Just build a ship and don&#8217;t put any thrusters on it.<br \/>\nThere you go, this article is done. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some more reasons to mess with stations.<\/p>\n<p>First off &#8211; if you have a station design in your inventory, the game will prefer to use that design when you explore the world and come across a station point to activate. Thus, you can get a decked-out BOSS weapons platform of your own design essentially for free.\u00a0&#8230;. Actually, the game gives you credits for activating a station, so you get that too. Even if you have just started a game, you can place an 8000P station design in your inventory, and the game will use it for deactivated stations. So, even if you can&#8217;t build it with your own factory, you can still get it to spawn.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, for some factions you can get unique blocks that are not on your regular block palette by duplicating a station design.<\/p>\n<h2>To duplicate a design,<\/h2>\n<p>hit Tab to switch to Command Mode.<\/p>\n<p>Hover your mouse over the station and hit <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">3<\/span>. The ship inventory screen will pop-up.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see the station design in the Top Left box.<\/p>\n<p>Hold down <span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alt<\/span> and drag the station design to your inventory.<br \/>\nIf the station design is locked,\u00a0<em>(because you don&#8217;t have enough P or the right blocks unlocked)<\/em>, you can still duplicate the design. But you won&#8217;t be able to\u00a0edit it.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have a copy of the design, you can open it up and rearrange the blocks as you please.<br \/>\nYou can make use of the unique blocks by copying them, but if you delete all of them they are not on your block pallet, so you&#8217;ll have to copy a design again.<\/p>\n<h2>Here are a few cool things:<\/h2>\n<h2>With the Starting Faction<\/h2>\n<p>You get the larger Command Module. It&#8217;s bigger, fatter, has more power output, and if you don&#8217;t completely enclose it, it will act as it&#8217;s own factory.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a weird bug with this block though. Sometimes when the station gets destroyed, the Command Module will become indestructible, but never regrows.<\/p>\n<p>You also get the Asteroid blocks that plants grow on, including unobtainium, which can be used as a strong armor.<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_100\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_100\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-100 size-medium\" src=\"\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unobtanium-300x185.png\" alt=\"unobtanium\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reassemblyerect.site\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unobtanium-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/reassemblyerect.site\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unobtanium.png 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Unobtanium has 1000 health and is tiny. So a 4 x 4 block of it would = 16,000 health for 32P.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>There is also a Transformer block, but as far as I can tell &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t do anything.<\/p>\n<p><em>One thing to note is that you can&#8217;t use these blocks in an official tournament because they&#8217;re not really part of the starting faction block set.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>With the Bee Faction (#12)<\/h2>\n<p>You can duplicate the building designs, and every building has a Command Module that&#8217;s bigger and generates it&#8217;s own R.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t generate R as quickly as solar panels, but if you make a fleet of ships using that Command Module, you have endless R.<br \/>\nTo maximize the effect don&#8217;t use ships in your fleet that have factories. That way they&#8217;ll give the R to you when you bump into them.<\/p>\n<h2>Factions that Don&#8217;t have Stations<\/h2>\n<dl id=\"attachment_116\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 410px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big_bee_base_opt.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-116\" src=\"\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big_bee_base_opt.png\" alt=\"big_bee_base_opt\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reassemblyerect.site\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big_bee_base_opt.png 500w, https:\/\/reassemblyerect.site\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/big_bee_base_opt-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">hmm&#8230; looks a little small. &#8211; That&#8217;s what she&#8230; ah, forget it.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl id=\"attachment_116\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 510px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><del>The Bees don&#8217;t actually have a station design<\/del>. (Actually they do have a piece called a station, but it looks like a building, and frankly it sucks.) They have building designs, meaning they use the Root blocks and have no thrusters. So, for them when you activate a station, you&#8217;re just getting a building that&#8217;s not attached to anything.\u00a0If you design an actual station for the bees, then that design will pretty much always be used when you activate a disabled station.<\/p>\n<p>For the Reds (faction 3), &#8211; they don&#8217;t have a station at all. They spawn the Research Center, which is a not-so-hot ship.<br \/>\nIf you make a station design for them, it&#8217;ll melt when attacked because it&#8217;s still faction 3, but you can deck it out with maximum firepower and rest easy with the knowledge that you didn&#8217;t have to pay anything for it.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Notables<\/h2>\n<p>The blue\u00a0Crystalline faction (11). Oddly their big station design doesn&#8217;t have a factory. There are a few big ships that spawn units, but the station itself is actually neutered. You might want to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmers have a super large station design, but I&#8217;ve honestly never seen it spawn. Maybe it&#8217;s too big.<\/p>\n<p>You can force a station to spawn larger ships, even ones that are above your P limit.<br \/>\nHit Tab to enter Command Mode. Hover your mouse over the station and hit 3.<br \/>\nNow\u00a0drag your design to the production que for the station. Fill up all four slots.<br \/>\nThe station should just retain R until it has enough to build the ship.<\/p>\n<p>You can even create a design that&#8217;s say 8000P, but if you&#8217;ve only unlocked 5000P you can&#8217;t actually build it. However, you can find a station to build it. The station has to be big enough. Some of them rate at over 12000P. Find a big one, give it the design, eventually it&#8217;ll build it. You can&#8217;t add the ship to your fleet, but it got built and it&#8217;s on your side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about all I can think of for now. If you can think of anything else to add, let me know and I&#8217;ll revise this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Our\u00a0Base Belong to Us. Making a station is easy. Just build a ship and don&#8217;t put any thrusters on it. There you go, this article is done. \u00a0:) However, there are some more reasons to mess with stations. 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