Your abbreviations threw me off a bit, what do RD and the variants (I assume P0-5 = plate 1-5, and c0-5 = cable 1-5; but what is RDS1-5?) stand for?
So what you do is build the in-progress bases to have their own shipyards and use them to retrofit themselves/each other so the shipyard ships can move off to build the starting bases at another star? That's brilliant! Don't you need one non-basemounted repair bay or shipyard to do the final retrofit of the Last base though (or is there enough room for the shipyard AND the cable/plate I don't recall off the top of my head)? Still, that looks like a great idea. I especially like how the emergency build slow-effect is used up while the spaceyard ships are in transit and can't build anyway. That's an elegant strategy Alasyr!
As long as each design uses enough tonnage of equipment to be too large for a battlestation and you don't retrofit more than once in a single turn, it does appear to be legit for the contest.
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Editing here: I just looked back and saw where you said s=ship yard. Sorry. But I still wonder what RD means.
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[This message has been edited by Nyx (edited 20 February 2001).]