You may also want to keep a spare Combat Frigate to escort your Freighter, as it will help you if you get attacked in your starship (at least while you're in the system where your Freighter is, anyway).Īside from the initial purchase price of your Frigates and potentially the material costs of repairs to ships damaged on missions, the main costs associated with running an expedition are time and fuel. Careful planning and efficient scheduling will allow you to assign two or three specialty fleets of the same type if doubles or triples of that type are offered, or put together a diverse fleet for a General mission. Some missions last longer than 24 hours, so if you assign a fleet to a long-term mission, they may still be out of port when new missions spawn.ĭut to this potential long-term mission overlap, you will want to keep some vessels in reserve, either by filling up your fleet roster, or by assigning less than five frigates per mission. Missions are rated in terms of difficulty with one to three stars, and also have a distance to be covered in light years (LY) and duration. Every 24 hours, 5 new missions will spawn, each of which you can assign up to five of your Frigates to attempt. To cover all possible mission types, you will want at least 4-5 of each specialty ship type (perhaps as many as 7 eventually) and 5-7 good support ships. You can have a maximum of 30 frigates in your fleet. their "specialty role" is supporting other ships in their specialty roles by reducing their fuel costs!) More on Fuel Costs below. Support Frigates do not get a +15 boost to a specialty stat, but instead always start with a -15 expedition fuel cost (i.e. Speciality missions should include 2-4 good ships of that specialty type and a Support ship (to reduce fuel costs), while General missions should include a mix of one of each of the four specialty types and one Support ship (again to reduce fuel costs).Įach of the first four ship types has a specialty role, and always uses the first of their five avalable Trait slots to give a +15 boost to their primary role (Combat for Combat, Exploration for Exploration, etc). Frigates are deployed in groups of up to five ships, with 4 types of Specialty missions and "General" missions. Frigates come in five types (Combat, Exploration, Industrial, Merchant, Support), and each has up to five slots for traits that either buff or debuff your ship's stats and abilities.
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