Building Ships
Ship Build Queue
The ship build queue will get active when all ship slots are used up. From this point on, game play usually changes significantly. The following options control build queue operation. Read the ship build queue page for details.
Ship Movement
Missions
Cloaking
The following parameters apply to ships with cloaking device that try to cloak (using the Cloak or Super Spy mission, or one of the replacement extended missions).
Robbing
Towing
See Tow Mission and Contested Tows for more information about towing.
Scanners
Hiss
Ship Special Functions
Most of the starship special functions can be separately turned on and off. You can also turn off a function by removing it from the ship, via shiplist.txt resp. hullfunc.txt.
Ships in Combat
- AllowShipCloning
- ShipCloneCostRate
- RecycleRate
- BuildQueue
- BuildPointReport
- AllowPriorityBuild
- BuildChangeRelativePenalty
- SBQBoostExpX100
- PBPCloneCostRate
- PALShipMinekillPer10KT
- PALDecayPerTurn
- PALPlayerRate
- AllowNoFuelMovement
- RoundGravityWells
- UseAccurateFuelModel
- ShipFighterCost
- CumulativePillaging
- SpyDetectionChance
- AllowRGAOnUnowned
- AllowSuperRefit
- AllowExtendedMissions
- ExtMissionsStartAt
- AllowBeamUpMultiple
- CloakFuelBurn
- CloakFailureRate
- DamageLevelForCloakFail
- AllowCloakFailMessages
- AllowCloakedShipsAttack
- DamageLevelForAntiCloakFail
- AlternativeAntiCloak
- RobFailureOdds
- RobCloakedChance
- AllowOneEngineTowing
- TowedShipsBreakFree
- TowedShipsCooperate
- AllowTowCloakedShips
- AllowAlternativeTowing
- TowStrengthDistanceScale
- AllowCrystalTowCapture
- ScanRange
- SensorRange
- DarkSenseRange
- ExtendedSensorSweep
- DefenseForUndetectable
- DefenseToBlockBioscan
- AllowHiss
- HissEffectRate
- MaxShipsHissing
- AllowAlchemy
- AllowAdvancedRefinery
- DamageLevelForTerraformFail
- TerraformRate
- DamageLevelForHyperjumpFail
- AllowGloryDevice
- AllowGamblingShips
- AllowImperialAssault
- AllowBioscanners
- RamScoopFuelPerLY
- DamageLevelForChunnelFail
- AllowAlliedChunneling
- MinimumChunnelDistance
- EngineShieldBonusRate
- AllowFedCombatBonus
- AllowInterceptAttack
- FuelUsagePerTurnFor100KT
