[geoschmo]

Raynor, That would work, however IMHO it would be crossing the line a bit. That has been discussed and decided that it would not be disallowed, but I won't do it myself for the purposes of the contest.

I get 11 space yards built in the sector with a star. I start one space yard building a starbase with a plating or cable component. Two turns later I start the other 10 space yards building five each plating and cable bases. When the first yard is done, I retrofit it to a Starbase with a Generator component. This takes two turns becasue of the 50% retrofit limit. I have a starbase design that is roughly 150% of the value of a cable base, and from there I can retrofit to the generator base. Cost more but I can knock about a year of the construction time that way.

Plus if I undestand things correctly your way will not work after the patch, while the technique I laid out will still be valid.

[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 19 February 2001).]