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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 7213095" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>The one's provided don't give you any more information to "grok the rules" they only show you how a stat block should appear - I looked at those ships at first and the stats and weapon choices, etc. went over my head. The best way to learn anything is by doing and doing it the way I suggest above, by the third starship I built, I could call myself a system master of Starfinder starship building. In my above post the first things you do, according to Paizo is pick Size, Tier and Power Core, but having tried that - I discovered that doing so is backwards. How can you pick a Power Core, when you need to pick all your ships systems first, what you pick determine the Power Core you need (looking at each PCU cost, not every system uses PCU). Picking Power and Tier first, you're basing that on a wild guess, and choosing systems that fit the cost of your chosen Tier is almost impossible to do.</p><p></p><p>Maybe what I didn't say, was that I read the Starship rules 3 or 4 times - reading about all the computers and weapons, and other systems before trying to build a ship. What I explain above, is after you've done that - only by trying to build a ship does any of that reading make sense. If you try to pick Tier and Power Core first, you're going to get lost trying to match. My described way, says forget about that, and just build your ship, your choices determine Tier and Power Core. Once you build a few ships, then it really starts to sink in.</p><p></p><p>So while a convoluted method, I disagree with you suggesting it's terrible - I think it's the only advice that can be offered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 7213095, member: 50895"] The one's provided don't give you any more information to "grok the rules" they only show you how a stat block should appear - I looked at those ships at first and the stats and weapon choices, etc. went over my head. The best way to learn anything is by doing and doing it the way I suggest above, by the third starship I built, I could call myself a system master of Starfinder starship building. In my above post the first things you do, according to Paizo is pick Size, Tier and Power Core, but having tried that - I discovered that doing so is backwards. How can you pick a Power Core, when you need to pick all your ships systems first, what you pick determine the Power Core you need (looking at each PCU cost, not every system uses PCU). Picking Power and Tier first, you're basing that on a wild guess, and choosing systems that fit the cost of your chosen Tier is almost impossible to do. Maybe what I didn't say, was that I read the Starship rules 3 or 4 times - reading about all the computers and weapons, and other systems before trying to build a ship. What I explain above, is after you've done that - only by trying to build a ship does any of that reading make sense. If you try to pick Tier and Power Core first, you're going to get lost trying to match. My described way, says forget about that, and just build your ship, your choices determine Tier and Power Core. Once you build a few ships, then it really starts to sink in. So while a convoluted method, I disagree with you suggesting it's terrible - I think it's the only advice that can be offered. [/QUOTE]
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