Purchase starships, take out bank loans, and interact with even more factions and races with this Ship Builders Expansion! For example, want to focus on getting a steady supply of food? Not only can planetary agricultural domes be built as usual but now agricultural cruisers can be purchased as well. This will provide a steady supply of food to go further along in your journeys. Want to go for a science victory? In addition to all the usual ways to collect science data, you can now purchase science cruisers to collect science data tokens for you as well. In fact different types of starships can be purchased for just about any task in the game! However these starships come with extremely high price tags but no worries, you can now take out loans at banks in stations to pay for your starships overtime. Loans can be taken out for anything, such as buying large amounts of trade items to sell for a profit and rake in the cash!
Purchase every capital starship from the Alliance catalog for a total of 16 different types to collect tokens and bring in much needed items. These ships will drop off collected items at new warehouses. Pickup these items at warehouses within industrial sectors.
Take out loans from banks onboard stations to purchase these large starships or purchase anything else such as ship upgrades. Select loan terms such as length and payment amount. Longer terms are lower payments but higher apr.
Six new factions and races to interact with await you! The Bacchus Pirates, Cyclopeans, Necromancers, and Malcos, Waspians, and the Lava Kings, all with their own ship sets.
New ship sets for each faction! Shown above is only some of the ships from the Malcos faction.
New items and resources to trade such as oranges, baked goods, plant species and more!
New warehouses to store and pickup items and resources.
New info booths on stations which may sometimes give out helpful info or items such as grand station permits and more.
New location, Temples which can be found on forest planets and moons. When explored these Temples may give out 5 good or 5 bad tokens depending on the players alignment prior to exploring so be careful!
