[Andy Watkins]

Growltigga,

Thanks for the reply you have raised a few points and I have learnt a few things...

Building empty ships and then retrofitting them. I don't understand this, how do you retrofit or upgrade an old ship??

I am building them and then afterwards scrapping them and building newer models.

I haven't built and spacestations with ship yards near planets at all yet this seems important to you, what do you tend to do with them, I normally have more ship yards than I need because of limited mineral mining.

My one clever thing I am doing which someone here told me to do, I have built two ships with space yard facilities. taken them to a system full of asteroids and am building robo miner equipped space stations over each asteroid. Currently bringing in over 20,000 minerals per turn, probably costing a quarter of that or so in maintenance etc.

Biggest problem I have with fighters and in fact building in general is that I have one space yard on EVERY planet and about 25 planets. Plenty of capacity but it is all over the place so difficult to remember where everything is, particularly when you have to build fighters and carriers on seperate planets and bring them all together

Andy