Why can't carriers be mothballed?

[couslee]

Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
1>Perfect. We need seconds in the forum's clock.
2>Some side questions, too lazy to test it out:

1> It has that. I was second....
2> Me too.
Are you bug hunting, or looking for cheezy tactics to use?

(smiles when he asks that)

[ January 28, 2003, 17:57: Message edited by: couslee ]

[capnq]

Besides not being able to mothball a ship that's carrying cargo, you also can't retrofit one that's carrying cargo, either.

I don't think you can analyze or scrap it, as well.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by couslee:

Are you bug hunting, or looking for cheezy tactics to use?

Well, nope. It is more the housewifely tactics that I am always searching for, "gimme that penny".

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
-If I mothball spaceyard stations with a slow build rate, does the remaining time decrease whilst it is mothballed?

As I understood it, a long ago patch causes a mothballed spaceyard to also hold it's slow build countdown. I definitely experienced this. Haven't tried it recently, did it change back?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Arkcon:

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Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
-If I mothball spaceyard stations with a slow build rate, does the remaining time decrease whilst it is mothballed?

As I understood it, a long ago patch causes a mothballed spaceyard to also hold it's slow build countdown. I definitely experienced this. Haven't tried it recently, did it change back?

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Nope, you are correct. My mistake. Mothballing the yard base freezes the slow build time. It doesn't continue counting dowwn until you unmothball it.

Geoschmo

[PsychoTechFreak]

What about training experience? Will it be reset to "greenhorn" if I mothball a ship? I think, this is what I have seen (from extensive observation).

[Fyron]

All ship experience is lost when you mothball the ship. You can still retain fleet experience with an entire fleet of mothballed ships though (move out of fleet, mothball, move back in).