Planning to Customize Your Ship in Starfield? Here’s the Ultimate Guide to Ship Building

The highly anticipated Bethesda classic has arrived with a bang. The Sci-Fi giant has left the fans impressed with the early access. It has added on to the curiosity of fans awaiting the final launch on the 6th of September. Ever since Starfield was announced at the Xbox Showcase, it has been a standout product in the industry. From being a promising open world title to some innovative adaptations implemented by Bethesda, Starfield was an ideal pitch for a ‘perfect game.’ 

The highlight of the advertisement campaign for the Bethesda giant remains the innovations made around shipbuilding. While space travel is an essential part of the open world RPG, makers have put a lot of effort into creating the feature of shipbuilding. This specific feature has been receiving most of the attention. If you plan to improve your ship building skills and customizations, we have the perfect guide for you. 

Simplifying the Starfield Ship Engineering

The engineering upgrades and customizations are kept as realistic as possible by the developers. The structures and designs follow all the basic principles of astronomical physics. Thus, for a beginner, the first introduction to shipbuilding might seem complicated. Well, that isn’t the case. For a better experience, all you need is familiarity with some basic terms of the interface along with the concepts of some iconic pre-existing structures in the game. 

There are plenty of factors that are to be considered while designing or upgrading a ship. The fleet vehicle should be self-dependent for counterattacks and defense. This is because a large percentage of the gameplay involves space pirating and spaceship loot. 

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Therefore, you would want maximum security against space invaders. When you visit the early ship dock in open Atlanta city, you get the first opportunity to upgrade a ship. The interface seems simpler if you know some specific terms.

• LAS: Ship’s ability to damage with lasers.
• BAL: Ballistics.
• MSL: Missile damage.
• Hull: The ship’s health.
• Shield: The ability of a ship to take damage until it starts affecting the Hull.
• Reactor: Energy provided by the ship.
• Cargo: The material load your fleet can carry along.
• Shielded Cargo: The window of trading smuggled cargo in secret with the scanner.
• Crew Capacity: How many crew members can the ship hold?
• Fuel: The threshold of a fleet’s fuel holding capacity, including the reserves.
• Jump Range: The longest distance your vehicle can move in light years by a single Grav Drive.
• Mobility: How efficiently does the fleet perform in the hardest of combat with response to controls?

Once you’re through with all these common terminologies, the interface feels simpler. 

Customization 

Just like the upgrades, even the customizations aren’t as challenging as they seem in the first interaction. The most important thing to remember is that not any design that you have in mind would work for your flight. As mentioned earlier, the game focuses on being too close to astronomical reality.

This is a major reason a lot of your designs might get rejected or fail to fly after implementations. This doesn’t mean there’s a barrier to creativity. It’s simply creativity along with rigidity. So, before planning a unique innovative design, make sure it qualifies the streamlined requirements of space engineering. 

To initiate ship customization or upgrades, you can just start interacting with a technician at the Spaceports. A Spaceport of any planet would work. Besides the liberty of customization, Starfield has some standard base ships to start your basics with. 

• Starborn Guardian: Complete the Constellation Starfield operations and start New Game +.
• Star Eagle: Complete the Freestar Rangers operations that end with “The Hammer Falls”. If you’re looking for more balanced stats, this is the ship.
• Econohaul: Buy this at Paradiso, Neon, and Red Mile for 94,975 credits. This is a well-balanced ship for earlier in the game than the late-game vessels and has a decent weight hold size.  
• Narwhal: Available at Taiyo Astro Engineering in the Ryujin Building in Neon for 455,400 credits. It comes with an increased crew count.
• Stronghold: Can be bought at Akila City for 400,125 credits. It has great defenses and a long jump drive.  
• Silent Runner: Available at Hopetown HQ for 390,150 credits. It has a stylish base weight capacity. 

Hopefully, all the basic information will help you with your journey as a space engineer in the virtual RPG cosmos. Wishing you the best, Sail Away!

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