Yet another idea just struct me; new facility that adds construction rate same as population, happiness and racial traits, like +10% per level 1 'contruction facility' and +30% per level 3.
The idea other people have mentioned, to make construction queues sameway as intelligence and research queues are now, also sound great to me.
You could (or must) devote a huge planet full of people, level 3 space yard and 24 of level 3 'contruction facilities' to build your ships (in the later stages of game). This planet abviously would need far more defending that any other type of colonies, so if enemy goes and glasses this one over, it would be same as losing a homeworld in Proportions mod.
Also, building spaceyard on every colony wouldn't as usefull for ship building as it is now. It would add more specialization for planets; you could still build space yard on every colony but rates would be dramatically slower that on a yard planet whitch could build not only max 1 ship per round, but upto 12 ships per round.
This makes more sense (for me anyway) since its not like only one oiltanker, luxury cruiser etc is build per year in real life
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[ April 03, 2003, 09:06: Message edited by: Me Loonn ]