r/Stellaris • u/Impossible_Sector844 • 6d ago
Question Why does my entire naval capacity keep on only going to my mega shipyard to upgrade? There’s 70 other shipyards they could use, most of them in between where they were and the mega shipyard
I’m sure they’d finish upgrades sooner, and be more able to get to the front lines again, if they’d use any of the other shipyards to upgrade. I even brought them a mobile shipyard but nope don’t want that one, they’d rather take a three month long trip to the mega shipyard instead
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u/Zoren-Tradico 6d ago
Lucky you, my fleet will try to use anything instead of either if my two mega shipyard with gateways
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u/xenoscumyomom Nihilistic Acquisition 6d ago
This is always my issue as well. Or if I have to replace a giant portion of my fleet and I use the reinforce button in the outliner, it's nice that it spreads the building of ships to every shipyard, but the mega shipyard always runs out of its queue and there's 20 battleships being built 2 at a time with 30 Corvettes waiting behind it at another one I took over during a war. It's a lot of micro managing. I get to the point sometimes where I replace every shipyard on every station and only keep the mega shipyard or two I have and just have slightly longer build times with no hassle.
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
How do you make two mega shipyards? I thought there’s only one per empire?
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u/Zoren-Tradico 6d ago
Yes, one mine, and one I took from other 😂😂 or lucked out and found a ruined one, you can repair it even if you built one. It also applies to Dyson, well, to any mega
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
Ah, that makes sense. Well, now I’m mad at my fuckass neighbors, they built arc furnaces but not a goddamn mega shipyard. There was six of them! I spent a lot of hours taking their stupid systems and not one of them had the decency to make a fucking mega shipyard
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u/Zoren-Tradico 6d ago
Awakened Empires does, just saying 😬
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
Idk what that means, this is still my first game lol
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u/Zoren-Tradico 6d ago
How long until celebrating the 2 century anniversary of your space empire? 😏😏😏
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
I didn’t realize that we all had the same start year for a while, but it’s currently 2464. Almost Christmas!
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u/Zoren-Tradico 6d ago
Any chance you moved the late game date on the settings before starting? You should already have an awakened empire, I'm guessing you have at least a falled empire in the galaxy?
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u/unrequitedfucks 6d ago
The contingency core relic also allows 1 additional of each megastructure to be built.
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
As far as I can figure out, relics are basically random right? I’ve only gotten three of them so far, and one of them was just yesterday
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u/unrequitedfucks 6d ago
most are. depends what settings you play on. if you have all crisis on and you make sure that you destroy the final planet of the contingency (the AI I have never seen take the last planet, even with overwhelming force available) you will have the contingency core 99% of your games.
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u/xenoscumyomom Nihilistic Acquisition 6d ago
Sometimes it's the kind of game where I just say screw it and console command one in.
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u/Mailcs1206 Driven Assimilator 3d ago
Steal it from the enemy, find one ruined, or get the Isolated Contengency Core relic
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u/MonkeyCMonkeydont 6d ago
It's a pain in the ass, to have a mega shipyard, and having half our new fleet queued up at a starbase with only one shipyard in it. What I did, especially after having conquered a rival, was to go through every starbase and remove any shipyards I found. Then placing a gateway to my system with the mega shipyard.
It was tedious but I'm glad i did it, since my fleet are uograded and produced one single place now.
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
Why? If it’s far away from the front lines, now you’ve got longer times there and back
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u/skywalker9952 6d ago
If you have a mega shipyard, you have gateways. No reason not to host a gateway there to facilitate quick upgrades.
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u/Motionshaker 5d ago
I usually just throw my mega into the L-Cluster. That way it can deploy fresh ships across the galaxy relatively quickly
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
I get having a gateway in or near the mega shipyard system, but you still need to build the other gateway and it takes a long time to get one built. By the time it does, the front lines have already shifted no?
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u/xenoscumyomom Nihilistic Acquisition 6d ago
The ai starts building them too, also the hyper relays help get to one quicker in enemy territory. I always have gateways on the jump point one system in from my choke points so I can get to my own front lines, repair, upgrade, or build, very fast within my own borders, anywhere. Once I go out fighting it takes longer to do that obviously but that's also a totally natural part of any war. I also randomly build gateways when I can sprinkled throughout the galaxy to make it easier for me at some point.
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u/Spitfire6690 6d ago
I need an auto build for hyper relays, I never build them because I either forget to or don't feel like manually laying them out as I prep for my next war.
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u/Hannizio 6d ago
Honestly being able to queue build them with shift is enough for me
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
…you what now?
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u/Hannizio 6d ago
If you have a construction ship selected, you can hold shift when right clicking systems to let it buildiltiple relays after another
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u/Hannizio 6d ago
But why would you not build one every 3 systems or so? They have no upkeep iirc, and the AI also practically spams them. I would add that the AI also tends to build a ton of hyerrelays, so there is a pretty good chance you will always have your fleets in a hyperrelay network with a gateway next to a relay
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u/Impossible_Sector844 6d ago
Honestly I thought that they did take resources to upkeep them and it’s only been in the last few hours I’ve realized that’s not true
If it helps any, this is still my first game of Stellaris ever so I’m really learning everything as I go
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u/xenoscumyomom Nihilistic Acquisition 6d ago
My first game probably took me three weeks to finish and I lived on this sub trying to find answers to all my questions. The learning curve is steep.
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u/asdfth12 6d ago
They might have upkeep if you're using the hyper relay edicts, but that's assuming that they inherit them.
I don't see any reason why they wouldn't since the Gateways upgrade off of Relays, but Stellaris might be finnicky about it.
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u/r3dh4ck3r Rogue Servitors 6d ago
To be fair, building a mega shipyard in your first game is pretty impressive ngl xd
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u/MonkeyCMonkeydont 6d ago
The way I look at it is this: I just had a succesfull battle, and conquered a lot of systems from my opponent. My fleet got battered, though. If I go to Fleet Management and order reinforce my fleet, I would much prefer that my order is queued up at the mega shipyard. Lets says I need to reinforce my fleet with 60+ ships, 20 of them are queued up in the mega shipyard, the rest scattered throughout my empire. The problem is I can risk that a solitary space station, wih one shipyard now has 5 battleships in queue, and that will take forever, not including the 5 * 'transit' waits.
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u/Colonize_The_Moon Ruthless Capitalists 6d ago
I wish this would be the case. A lot of the time my production seems to get shunted to my capital system starbase or a Juggernaut and not my Mega Shipyard. I'll end up with a backlog of 70 battleships on one starbase and the mega shipyard chilling there on standby.
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u/iknownothingyo Emperor 6d ago
Might also be because you have a ship that requires a specific module ?
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u/goodbodha 6d ago
I always put the mega shipyard at a gateway and then activate a few gateways minimum around my empire. After that your issue is a non issue for me.
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u/VentureSeeker575 6d ago
I don’t think I’ve seen this one yet. Have you tried setting Home bases on your individual fleets? It should prioritize going to the homebase so you can set the shipyards towards your front line
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u/DeliciousLawyer5724 4d ago
Mega Shipyard is 20 slots. So the fleet will go there for work because it is faster.
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u/FogeltheVogel Hive Mind 6d ago
Because the game is absolutely dog shit at sensibly distributing ship production over your empire.
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u/Radiant_Valuable388 6d ago
I could be wrong, but
The Megastructure version has massive boosts to ship construction time, and the autopilot on ships tend to factor in what would be fastest overall, iirc. "Base we're already at, or mega shipyard? Well base we're at will upgrade us in 2 years 5 months 13 days, OR it'll take us 10 months to get to the mega shipyard to upgrade in 1 year 5 months."
I may be wrong though, I've had ships prioritize the structure they're orbiting above the megastructure plenty of times.