building faster?

[Merry Jolkar]

Some items, such as gravitational quantum resonators, take forever to build! Other than keeping my people happy, my population full, and building time shrine, anything I can do to speed things up? Can ships with space yards contribute? If I build a starbase with a space yard, does this help?
Thanks,
Merry

[raynor]

Nope. Sorry. Only one spaceyard can contribute to the build of each individual item. I think the fastest you could build a ship with the Grav. Resonator would be on a huge world with the population fully maxed out using a Space Yard III (or Temporal Space Yard III if you have that adv. trait)

[Slick]

Originally posted by Merry Jolkar:
Some items, such as gravitational quantum resonators, take forever to build! Other than keeping my people happy, my population full, and building time shrine, anything I can do to speed things up? Can ships with space yards contribute? If I build a starbase with a space yard, does this help?
Thanks,
Merry

There is a faster way. See Newbie FAQ section 5.5.8.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=005518

Basically you can build an expensive ship faster with a series of retrofits. Be prepared for it to cost much more this way, though.

Slick.

[ February 23, 2003, 18:05: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Merry Jolkar]

Slick,
That is a big help. Thank you!
Merry

[Merry Jolkar]

What is the rule for determining the cost of a refit? I'm trying to retrofit, and have more than twice the resources required by the target upgrade ship *brand new*, but keep getting message that I don't have enough. Any help would be appreciated, as this is a critical part of my strategy and I've been stuck for 3 turns now!

I have
169,109 minerals
16,802 organics
118,376 radioactives.

and when trying to retrofit a ship that costs
76,000 minerals
1000 organics
32,000 radioactives
brand new, I get a message: "Our vehicle Gate 1 in system Texrek has not been retrofit, sire. You do not have enough resources to finance this retrofit."

I have more than twice the value of the ship, *and* I'm retrofitting from a ship that costs:
54,000 minerals
5000 organics
13,000 radioactives. (Note that the initial ship seems slightly less than 2/3 the value of the target but I think this is due to rounding.)
Thanks,
Merry

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Merry Jolkar:
What is the rule for determining the cost of a refit? I'm trying to retrofit, and have more than twice the resources required by the target upgrade ship *brand new*, but keep getting message that I don't have enough. Any help would be appreciated, as this is a critical part of my strategy and I've been stuck for 3 turns now!

Thanks,
Merry

Edit: I misunderstood your post. Data I gave does not apply. Sorry.

[ February 27, 2003, 02:06: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]