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Production
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Production is the creation of
ships, vehicles, items, weapons and droids in facilities and space
stations. All ships may be built in shipyard space stations (see
Space Stations Rules) if the ship is the length of the
station or smaller (doesn't apply to stations 3km or larger). Factories
and factory stations are limited to ships less than 80metres in length. All Boats and Submarines are produced in Naval
Shipyard facilities. All medical items are produced in Labs or Medical
Factory Stations. All other ships, vehicles, items, weapons and droids
are produced in factories or factory stations.
- The person starting production must be in the Command Room of the facility/station and have access.
- The manager must:
- Be a production faction of the right type (See Production: Production Faction Types).
- Have sufficient credits to pay for production.
- The operator must be an active player.
- The person starting production and the operator must be in the faction that is the manager and have appropriate privileges. (See Privileges)
- There must be at least one Worker NPC in the facility/station managed by the production faction managing the facility/station that isn't in a party.
- There must be sufficient materials to produce. See Production: Raw Materials
- There must be sufficient capacity in weight and volume in the facility/station to hold the finished product(s). The available space includes that which is currently taken up by the materials that production will use. (This doesn't apply to ships 80 metres or larger because they're built outside, or to all ships if the shipyard is set to build everything outside.)
- There must be a datacard assigned to the facility/station with sufficient quantity on it* (See Production: Assigning Datacards).
- The facility/station must be tooled to the type of entity to be produced.
Note
If the Manager changes while
production is ongoing in such a way that breaks the above conditions
production will halt at 100% until the problem is fixed and production
is resumed and finished.
In the case of the operator changing in such a way as to no longer meet the requirements they will be replaced with the leader of the managing faction.
In the case of the operator changing in such a way as to no longer meet the requirements they will be replaced with the leader of the managing faction.
The manager of the facility/station must be set to a production faction of the right type.
For most cases this is simply the faction type that matches the type of
entity to be produced (ie: Manufacturing factions produce weapons, ships, etc.).
There are, however, a few exceptions to this rule. For example:
- Medical factions produce medical items, medical droids, and cybernetics.
- Mining factions produce the Uglies (X-Ceptor, Y-TIE, TIE-Wing, and C-Wing), LIN-series mining droids, and mining explosives (Alpha Plus Charge and Blaststick).
- Trading factions produce Drug items.
'Worker' type NPCs, a type of Civil NPC, are used in
production. The NPCs must be in the facility/station and be managed by
the production faction that is managing the facility/station. The amount
of NPCs to be used on the project depends on the size and quantity of
what is being produced. The number of NPCs is entered upon adding a new
project and can be edited up until the project is started. Once the
project is started you can't edit the requested number of NPCs, so plan
ahead.
Each project may have a maximum quantity of
48and up to
20projects may be queued up at once. Projects that are paused or queued
may be moved up and down the queue, edited, or deleted at will.
Example
Production will
automatically move to the next project until a failure condition is met.
The operator of the facility/station does not need to be present for
this to happen. The possible failure conditions are:
H. Appleby runs a group of shipyards for the Rebel Alliance
in the Swansea system. He has a shipyard 3 producing two MC-60s, at 34%
complete. An incoming transmission demands that the construction of the
two MC-60s be paused to give top priority to replacing a MC-80a lost in
the Battle of Ailartsua. He pauses construction on the two MC-60s and -
after retooling the station to it's new project - the MC-80a begins
production. In said battle, 26 X-Wings were also lost, which cannot
easily be replaced in time, so Humphrey adds an order for 26 new X-Wings
to the production queue and moves it to the top of the queue above the
paused MC-60s. After the MC-80a is completed, production can begin on
the X-Wings, before the MC-60s are resumed.
- There is nothing else left in the queue
- The next item in the queue is an already started project that was paused
- The next item in the queue is not the same type of entity that was being produced
- Production checks fail (see Production: What are the requirements to produce?)
Example
J. Paxman sets up a
shipyard with 6 projects of 12 X-Wings each and 4 projects of 8 Y-Wings
each. Production will automatically continue on until it has built all 6
projects, providing he has enough materials to produce the X-Wings. At
this point Jeremy will get a message from the station letting him know
that he needs to retool the station if the Y-Wing production is to be
started.
Note
More detailed instructions on how to use the production
interface can be found on the interface itself.
Note
Entities which are produced in crates (items and droids) may not be in the production queue
at the same time as other entities (such as ships and vehicles).
The materials used in production may be owned by:
* This may change to only adjacent material loadable facilities in the future.
- the facility/station operator
- the manager
- the owner
- the person starting production
- or the faction of the person starting production (if the individual has Level 1 'Raw Materials' privilege)
* This may change to only adjacent material loadable facilities in the future.
Note
When production is started, the oldest pile will be used first.
A datacard must be
assigned to the facility/station in order for it to produce. Datacards
are assigned from Inventory > View Datacards by the faction that owns
them. Any faction with a datacard can assign their datacards to a
facility/station of another faction. The quantity on a limited use
datacard may be edited by the owning faction at any time. When a
datacard is depleted the owning faction must either reissue the card or
edit the quantity on the existing card.
1.6.1/ Custom Datacard Images
You have the option of assigning a custom image to the datacards you
own. There is no need to retool or otherwise alter the production
process when the image is accepted. Once set, any entities produced with
that datacard will have the custom image set for it instead of the
standard image. When adding a project to the queue, or editing one that
hasn't yet started, you may choose to use the default image instead of
your custom image. For more information, see Datacards: Custom
Datacard Images.
Anyone with access to the command room of the
facility/station who has Level 1 or 2 'Production' privilege may abort
production at any time. Materials returned from aborting are placed in
the facility/station doing the production, the materials are lost if
there is not sufficient room. If the project is building ships or
vehicles then they must be completely empty of all cargo and passengers
before abort can begin. The amount of materials returned is the percentage of
the time that remains minus ten percent.
Equations
Time to Abort = Time Elapsed + 6 hours
Materials Returned = Percentage Left to Complete - 10%
Pausing production can be done at any time
but results in the time to produce increasing by 10% of the remaining
time. When a project is paused the NPCs that were working on it are
unassigned.
To resume production you have to
be in the command room of the facility/station and have Level 1 or 2
'Production' privilege. Upon choosing the resume production you are
presented with a list of ships/vehicles that meet these conditions.
* It will be possible to add such ships/vehicles back into the queue at a later date.
- Damaged - These will need to be repaired before production can continue on them. See Repair.
- Missing - These ships/vehicles are no longer present and will need to be returned.
- Completion Mismatch - These ships/vehicles are not completed to the same extent as the overall state of the project and will need to be worked on separately before rejoining the project.
* It will be possible to add such ships/vehicles back into the queue at a later date.
There are several places where the finished product may be placed.
- Ships 80 metres or larger are always produced outside the space station.
- Other ships and all vehicles are produced inside.
- Items, Weapons and Droids are placed in cargo containers (see Production: Cargo Containers) in the entrance room when production finishes.
Note
Shipyard stations may choose to produce ships shorter than 80 metres outside.
Items, Weapons and Droids are produced in batches.
Unlike ships and vehicles, which are always in units of one, an item,
weapon or droid can contain up to 50 in a single batch. The material
requirements for batches are those listed on the rules pages. So, if the
toolkit material requirements are 2 units of meleenium, 1 of rudic and 2
of varium that is for an entire batch of toolkits, not just one.
Similarly, the quantity on the assigned datacard is the number of
batches that can be produced, not the number of items, weapons or droids
that can be produced. Batches can be anywhere from 1 to 48.
Equations
Batch Quantity = round(0.5 / squareRoot(Weight))
Weight: Weight of the item, weapon or droid.
Weight: Weight of the item, weapon or droid.
Items, Weapons and Droids are packed into cargo containers when
production finishes. The containers cost nothing, cannot be filled with
anything else and will disappear when everything has been removed from
them. They will be placed in the entrance room of the facility and will
be labeled according to what they contain. Upon adding a project to the
queue you may choose the number of products that will be placed in each
box. The batch quantity is the minimum number that may be put in each
box, size permitting.
Equations
Batches Per Box = floor(Box Volume / (Batch Quantity * Product Volume))
When changing from producing one type of entity to another the
facility/station needs to be retooled to that type of entity. Retooling
is free and takes time determined by the following equation. The
retooling process can be started by anyone with access to the command
room of the facility/station who has Level 1 or 2 'Production'
privilege.
Equations
Days to Retool = Ln(Volume Capacity / 7750)
- Ln: Logarithm Naperian, also known as Natural Log
- Volume Capacity: The Vol Cap of the facility/station
The facility/station doing the
production will sometimes make contact with the relevant parties (see
Production: Ships/Vehicles being removed during
production) when something has gone wrong,
or when production finishes. Messages are currently sent in the
following circumstances.
- A project moved to automatically is lacking something that it requires (eg: materials, credits, capacity...). See Production: What are the requirements to produce?.
- Production finishes and: there are no more projects left in the queue, there are no more projects of this type, or the next project has already started.*
- A ship/vehicle is removed from the facility or station.
If a project consists of more than one entity, there are modest savings in time and cost, compared to producing the same number of entities in projects each consisting of a single entity. No additional workers are required. This is known as the 'Mass Production Factor'.
Equations
Mass Production Factor = (Product Quantity) ^ -0.04
Equations
Days to Produce = (((Total Materials / Production Mod) * (1.2 - (Management / 25)) / NPC Mod) * Random * (1 - (Civ Level / 8))) * Location Mod * Quantity * Mass Production Factor
- Total Materials: For ships, vehicles and droids this is the total units of material the entity requires. For items and weapons this is 2.5 * (RMP^0.4).
- Production Mod: A modifier based on the class and size of the product. These are fixed numbers that are not adjustable by players.
- Management: Management skill of the person starting production, or Management skill of the facility/station operator if the project automatically continued.
- NPC Mod: The number of NPC workers used in production has a large effect on the time of production. Every entity has an ideal number of NPCs that are required to produce it, and there are severe effects on the production time when trying to use significantly more or fewer NPCs.
- Random: 0.95 - 1.05.
- Civ Level: When on or above a planet is the CL of the planet, when in a system is the average CL of inhabited planets in the system, 0 when in deep space.
- Location Mod: 1 for facilities, 0.9 for space stations.
Example
H. Appleby tries to save credits on producing the 2 MC-80a's by using only 2/3 of the required NPCs. When he gives the order to start the project, the ETA given by the foreman is almost 50% greater than normal.
5.1.1/ Ideal Number of NPCs
The ideal number of workers is a function of the length/size of the entity, and is listed on each entity's rules page.
5.1.2/ Temporary Time Delays
To prevent the flooding of the economy
before combat is released there will be temporary increases in the time
to produce. As combat draws nearer, or if these don't prove necessary,
the increases will be reduced or removed completely.
- Ships
- Capital ships 3000m and longer - x1.5
- Capital ships between 200m and 3000m - x2
- All other capital ships - x3.5
- All freighters - x2
- Fighters & Satellites - x2
- Vehicles - x2
- Items & Weapons - x2
- Droids - x2
Equations
Cost = round((RMP * (1.5 - (0.5 * (Morale - Crime))) * Random) * Quantity * Mass Production Factor + ((RMP * Tax Level) * Quantity))
- RMP: Raw Material Price.
- Morale/Crime/Tax Level: When on or above a planet is the values for the planet, when in a system is the average values for inhabited planets in the system, when in deep space morale, crime and tax are 0.
- Random: 1.2 - 1.3.
5.2.1/ Controlling Power Portion
As per Planetary Economy: Morale
(M) rules, the group in control of
the location receives a cut every time production takes place.
- On or above a planet: Goes to the group controlling the planet.
- In a system, not above a planet: Goes to the group controlling the system.
A project directly started by someone gives XP to that
person. Any projects that are automatically continued send their XP to
the operator of the facility/station. A project that is resumed at some
point gives the XP to the person who resumed.
Equations
Ships = 2 + rounddown((RMP / 85000) * Quantity)
Vehicles = 2 + rounddown((RMP / 50000) * Quantity)
Items/Weapons = roundup(Quantity * 0.17)
Droids = 1 + rounddown((RMP / 60000) * Quantity)
Vehicles = 2 + rounddown((RMP / 50000) * Quantity)
Items/Weapons = roundup(Quantity * 0.17)
Droids = 1 + rounddown((RMP / 60000) * Quantity)
- RMP: Raw Material Price.
- Quantity: Number of products in the project.
Note
All production XP gains are currently set to 220% of the normal value.
