Cool tactic: Retrofitting on the Fly

Tezzezar · #1 September 12th, 2002, 08:07 AM

Hmmm. Using Mobile space yards to produce fighter replacements for my carriers while retrofitting my battleships on the fly...

Pardon me Gentlemen, I need to issue some additional orders to the Dark Nebulae Expeditionary Fleet.

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PvK · #2 September 12th, 2002, 08:41 AM

I think you can do mobile repairs and retrofits, but not mobile construction.

minipol · #3 September 12th, 2002, 08:47 AM

Sorry for the newbie question but if you build more than 1 spaceyard on a planet, and you build something there, do they both "work" on the construction or do they have seperate construction queues?
Am i correct i assuming that for instance 2 construction ships only work on items in their own construction queue and thus don't stack?

Tezzezar · #4 September 12th, 2002, 08:55 AM

There can be only one....

Wow, just had Deja Vu relating to the Highlander series.

Seriously, you can only have one planetary shipyard but multiple shipyards vessels/stations. Each planetary shipyard, spacestation yard or ship yard has it's own queue.

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minipol · #5 September 13th, 2002, 01:07 AM

Thanks. Most of the times, i only build 1 shipyard on the main planet of a system and 1 in the spacestation protecting the planet. I really don't see a point in building much shipyard vessels. I have a few but i use them to build stations on warppoints mainly and sometimes around planets. They are very expensive and since i play with limited resources i don't like vessels very much that are resource hungry

geoschmo · #6 September 13th, 2002, 01:15 AM

A nice thing to do with bases is mothball them. Build 10 or 15 over a huge planet with a land based space yard that is in a quiet part of your empire and mothball them. Then if the situation changes and the enemy starts harrasing that area you can quickly unmothball them and have them cranking out units or ships to fill the holes in your defenses. Just In Time Inventory, SEIV style.

Geoschmo

CW · #7 September 12th, 2002, 05:24 PM

Geo, I don't know why you would want to mothball the yards. My prefered strategy is almost centred around construction bases and I gain the edge by having LOTS of yards and out-producing everybody else. In fact the very first item on my "end turn check list" is to make sure that every yard is building something, and they only go on hold when I run out of resources.