How To Build Cheap! Quick Guide, From the Depths

This is the closest I will get to giving financial advice.

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[MrBobcanoosh]

"Complexity is simple, simplicity is complex."
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"Practice makes perfect."
Etc.

[andrelanger]

How to build cheap
Step 1: Don't make a government vehicle.
Step 2:

[nicopence]

Oddly enough, this is likely the most helpful video you have made so far.

[persh]

Me: let’s make something cheap.
Also me: what if I put large missiles on it?

[excelsior-zsvh]

Other quick guides: 2 minutes. Borderwise FtD quick guides: 22 minutes.

[SamSchurger]

Something I've learned about building both durable and cheep is that one layer of metal is enough except for maybe the ammo and AI. Also, if you are using APS, deck guns, despite being terrible everywhere else (except maybe secondary guns), will be your friends.

[peter]

me who studied engineering and is over engineering my first ship:
Nonsense, My first ship will glide over the water at 30m/s and be armed with 2 300 shell a min canons that can destroy heavy Armour with one round.

True story still working on programing the trust vectoring to have perfect stability while gliding over the water. The cost is at 75k material with double alloy hulls. The guns take like 2 seconds to pen the hull or the heavy Armour gun turrets and detonate the guns. It also does not over pen wood. This is only my corvet. I got a CWIS Anti cram/missle/topedo ready to mount on a destroyer that will fallow the same design since its modular

[CreeperDude-cmwv]

Funny, I worked on what was supposed to be a pocket battlecruiser, ended up being the size of a battleship, but still looking like it's coming into the intended price range of around 300k

[Uthael_Kileanea]

For anyone reading this: you can build those steam engines to be a lot more efficient. Remove pipes, connect turbines directly to boilers. Build bigger turbines rather than more of them. One boiler for several turbines unless you're investing in redundancy.
For long-term material efficiency, use an RTG and have your boiler start running only when battery is under 50%. Have the turbines and the RTG produce no more than what your craft spends at its peak. Also, supercharger engines can be more efficient than steam if running slow. No radiators, turbochargers or injectors needed and exhaust pipes cost basically 1 per cylinder.

[Chaos]

ACHOO
"Scuse' me, I'm allergic to good advice"
XD

[boris]

Use lasers.
Cheap. Compact. Powerful.
Make it a short range focuser, add a few storage cavities and its a shotgun of doom.
Like Volta, which is just 36k

[MacCoalieCoalson]

I REALLY like the idea of using a simple weapon and putting it in a larger, better custom turret like that. It seems so obvious for a weapon that needs to be small anc cheap but also a little bigger/better than *just* a simple weapon.

[Attaxalotl]

In speaking of "speed being the best active defense" could you do a hydrofoil guide?
That would be cool to know because of my noobie desire for tiny corvettes who's only defense is the fact that they can outrun a PAC beam.

I know PACs are hitscan, I was just making a joke.

[jesusgomezponcedeleon]

Greetings Borderwise, nice video.
Just wanted to let you know that you can connect boilers directly to turbines. In your craft this will save you 3 blocks. Also for further advice, pistons can be connected directly to a large boiler with no pipes. Have fun as always.

[YEAHKINDA]

Although it's generally less resource-efficient, I like making my tiny hulls for small boats out of a mix of alloy and metal. Alloy is extremely buoyant, moreso than wood, and metal is around neutral buoyancy. That is the sole purpose I use those two rather than wood and alloy or just wood. It allows me to maintain some level of protection against light fast shells from mostly simple weapons while also floating perfectly fine without air pumps. I might swap to wood mockups for ships as you suggested though.

[thegamingcat]

That building something out of wood first thing sounds like terrible advice, because replacing every armour block on a craft is a

[Wolf-yltk]

I have 920 hours in FTD, and 90% of my ships is rarely under 100k, and most of those was me trying to build cheapish, it is very easy to keep wanting to add more and more shiny things, then suddenly I got on a full spree of "Give me all the THINGS! =D Muahaha! triple layered armor! Big cannon is good but Huge cannon equals a huge boom! Now I must have anti torpedo and missile systems! " Yah this happens to me most of the time playing FtD. "Sigh" well, I appreciate you trying Mr. Borderwise but I just do not think I am save-able at this point.

[jerrebrasfield]

Was going to say how the laser barrel looks so much better now.. then realized this was 2 years ago.

[dracow]

Just found your channel very recently and I will say that you are amazing. I enjoy your videos a lot and these guides are very helpful.

[andregaspar]

Nice video
I am on that stage where you want to try the campaign for the first time... after 1000+ hours on the designer, basically learning, my latest challenge as been learning to build cheap.
Building cheap AND efficient is definitely the way I want to go. I have to admit it has not been easy at all to give up certain bad habits I got from building without worrying about the price tag.
Keep up the nice videos 👍