[sapperland]

What I would like is have the prototype cost 3 times as much for first ship built. Make shipyards MUCH more expensive and have ships take a minimum of a year to build. Allow 6 month build time with double cost. Make ship yards have a build tonnage limit per turn, like a shipyard can build up to 500k tons but still only make 10% any ship construction on any turn. This would allow several smaller ships to be under construction at one time a one larger ship or a combination. example,
3 ships at 100k tons and 1 ship at 200k would have 10k tons built on each small ship and 20k tons built on the larger ship each turn.
If you only had one 100k ton ship in the ship yard then you waste 400k worth of build space , and the ship still takes a year to build.

Make the players move resources from systems without shipyards to systems with them by frieghter. The spaceport would just collect all the stuff on one planet in the system so you wouldnt have to visit each planet.
This would open up the ability to do raids on shipping to destroy or capture.

[This message has been edited by sapperland (edited 21 November 2000).]