Realistic unit building

[Mako]

Someone has probably already posted this, put can the speed at which units are built be increased. It's not very realistic that you have to wait a year to built 200 fighters or troops, since they are so much smaller and cheaper than capital ships. Three turns to build a battleship and one year for a hundred fighters is just not right.

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Mako the Space Shark

[Nitram Draw]

The only way I know is to change the resource cost or the shipyard build rate but that affects everything.
I think some things build to fast and others build to slow. I wish there was an easy way to change only selected items.

[Jubala]

Just edit the cost of the basic troop anf fighter hulls. If that doesn't make it cheap enough for you, lower the cost of small components as well.

[Aussie Gamer]

I agree that the overall caost of non-ships cost way to much, but considering that 30 fighters can destroy easily a cruiser, but in real life that is true as well any way.

It should be cheaper to produce the units, I wrote to Aaron about that problem and ask him if there was a way to put in a building that that speed up prduction, such as a fighter base etc, he said that it was a good idea. So hopefully it might get in the game some day.

[Triumvir Emphy]

what is up with this realistic thing, there is no such thing as a real "space fighter" so we really don't know what it would look like or how big it is.

The size in kt's of a fighter is 15 to start. So the fighter is 1/10 of a small ship, hence you get to build 1 ship a year or 10 fighters,...

to hell with realism, how about keeping game balance,...

[JDC]

One idea that would speed up early games would be a library of early ship designs that a player could import to new games. I growed tired of building the same designs in the early game.

Jim Cibb

[JDC]

One idea that would speed up early games would be a library of early ship designs that a player could import to new games. I growed tired of building the same designs in the early game.

Jim Cibb

[Sinapus]

If you save your empire, it will record whatever designs you have that are not obsolete, IIRC.

I found it handy to start a game at high level, then design some ships I tend to use (like colony ships) and save the empire. Then when I start a game with that empire it will be in there, just unbuildable until I get the right tech for it.

Pre 1.27, though, it had a nasty habit of making your ship designs vanish if you added other players into the game. Hopefully, something mentioned in the history files has fixed that problem.

[Instar]

JDC: Save your empire file. Its in the menu.

[raynor]

quote:

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Originally posted by JDC:
One idea that would speed up early games would be a library of early ship designs that a player could import to new games. I growed tired of building the same designs in the early game.

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Me too! !! !!!

On the issue of fighters, I tend to build them at all my colonies instead of building as many mineral storage facilities. In my current game, I think I'm building 70 or 80 per turn right now. Every once in a while, I'll look up and notice I've accumulated a couple of hundred fighters in orbit around a planet and remember to pop a light carrier into queue somewhere.

If they introduce a fighter base which produces fighters more quickly, I sincerely hope they remove the ability to produce fighters at planets without such a base. Oh... and auto-launch would be nice too...

I think 1 battleship in 3 turns or 100 fighters in a year is reasonable. Unless the battleship is decked out with PD V cannons, it might take just three turns production of fighters to destroy the battleship.

Keep in mind that these opinions are coming from someone who is going to be hurting when I hit the 2000 unit limit well before turn 100.