Cool tactic: Retrofitting on the Fly

[rdouglass]

I tend to try and find planets w/ moon(s). Then build 2 (or 3) planet-based yards for ships and build several space-based ones to construct units. Depending on the units, you can get quite a few out of a group of SS's w/ SY's and still reserve the higher production planet-based yards for ships.

Space-based yards are generally too slow building ships (for my tastes anyway), yet definitely come in handy during 'strategic' moments in the game (ie. build more ships as fast as you possibly can!! or wholesale retrofits...)

EDIT: Oh yeah, the original topic. Actually, thats kinda' a cool thing. IIRC you don't even have to stop for the repairs to continue. If you retrofit more components than you have repair capacity, move the fleet anyway. As long as the ships are fleeted together, the repairs will continue...

[ September 12, 2002, 04:28: Message edited by: rdouglass ]