Retrofitting a ship

[dslwraith]

can you take a ship that is already built and retrofit it with something such as a warp opener or closer? instead of waiting 15 turns to build one?

[rdouglass]

Retrofitting has a few limitations. The first is hull size - they must be the same. The second is that the cost of the retrofit can be no more than 50% of the cost of the ship being retrofitted (unless you mod the setup files).

There may be others, but those are the two I know of....

[dslwraith]

What is the cost , what does that take into consideration? as in the total cost of allresources to build the ship or what?

[Suicide Junkie]

Ship cost is Minerals + Organics + Radioactives.

You also have to pay resources to do the retrofit: something like 20% of the cast of the parts you take out, and 50% of the price of the parts you put in.

[PvK]

Er, I believe the cost is 100% of the new components' cost, plus a fraction of the cost of components removed. However, as long as you have enough resources in your reserve, the switch takes place in one turn, and all new components start out damaged.

There is also the 50% increase limit in total resource cost, per retrofit - so you have to have a ship that's at least 2/3 the resource cost of the one you are refitting to, or the refit won't work.

Still, if you have a ship worth at least 2/3 of a very expensive ship like one with stellar manip components on it, and you have enough resources in storage to handle the retrofit, they yes, you can shave (well, lop off) many turns off the time to acquire a very expensive component.

PvK

[Atrocities]

I would say no. If the new design is greater than 50% the cost of the old design, no deal.

Better to just wait the 15 turns.