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Originally posted by Nyx:
The closest thing I know of to having several shipyards work together is to build a ship, then retrofit it to a more complex design. As near as I can tell, all shipyards join in the repair effort from that point on. It's not really much help, but there it is.
Do you ever build repair ships or even repair bases outfitted with the Repair Component III which can repair 8 components per turn? A Battlecruiser or 500KT Space Station can mount 3 of these components for a total of 24 components repaired per turn.
When I play, I like to send a couple of these Repair Battlecruisers with my fleets in addition to a Spaceyard Ship. This makes it very easy and quite quick to do in-place upgrades of ships fighting on the front lines.
Couple that with supply cruisers mounted with tons and tons of Solar Collectors III, and you can easily maintain a nice moving battle far from home.