[geoschmo]

Originally posted by rand029:
Another idea: Space Yards with multiple docks/slips/whatever. You can build multiple ships at once, but the space yard resources are divided among them. So you wouldn't have to scrap that half done Battlecruiser if you needed another escort or transport in a hurry.

Ooo, I like this idea now. I don't want to wait for SE5. And not just for space yards, do it for planetary yards as well. You actually wouldn't need to allow multiple yards, just allow the person to move a project down in the queue without losing acculumlated work done on it.

Originally SEIV had something like this where you could move a project up and the work already done would get applied towards the new project. That was taken out because it was considered a way to cheat because you could start work on an expensive ship that you never intended to build, and then switch it at the Last minute to an expensive ships that you wanted, but didn't have the tech for when you started. This would eliminate that cause you couldn't change the design once it's in the queue, but still allow flexibility. As long as you didn't take the project completely out of the queue it could keep the work accumulated while you work on other projects that you start from scratch. Much like intel or research quese now operate.

And if you could have the excess construction left over after one ship was done to go towards the next ship in line...

Geoschmo

[ July 10, 2002, 20:31: Message edited by: geoschmo ]