September 12th, 2002, 06:58 PM
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Re: Cool tactic: Retrofitting on the Fly
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Originally posted by geoschmo:
A nice thing to do with bases is mothball them. Build 10 or 15 over a huge planet with a land based space yard that is in a quiet part of your empire and mothball them. Then if the situation changes and the enemy starts harrasing that area you can quickly unmothball them and have them cranking out units or ships to fill the holes in your defenses. Just In Time Inventory, SEIV style. 
Geoschmo
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Watch how often you do that. Taking ships in and out of mothball is something like a 30% cost in resources. If your Maintenance is 5%, you need to mothball them for over 6 turns before you have really saved anything. |