Multiple shipyards

[Tomgs]

Actually the game looks for abilities not the names of facilities. If you give something a spaceyard ability it won't work with an existing spaceyard no mater what the name of the facility is. Now you may be able to increase production with a facility but I wouldn't know how because I haven't tried that myself. I don't know if the production boosting ability will work in facilities. I don't see it used anywhere except for bonuses from happiness and population so I doubt that a facility can do this without a code change. But hopefully someone can prove me wrong.

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[Atrocities]

raynor, thanks for the storage tip. I filled all the empty space on my Large BY Ships with cargo storage. Man talk about space now. Woooooooooooo.

[Puke]

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Originally posted by Tomgs:
Actually the game looks for abilities not the names of facilities.

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its not based on the Group?

as in:

General Group := Construction

or:

Facility Group := Space Yard

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[Puke]

no, everyone else is right. you cant do this.

[jimbob55]

Why not just add to Components.txt :

Name := Deep Space Yard IV
Description := Ship construction component which can work on one ship at a time.
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A space yard that can't repair but can hold lots of supplies.. or change supply to cargo and get a yard for building fighters....Or include solar generation ability for the yard.



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[Puke]

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Originally posted by jimbob55:
Why not just add to Components.txt :
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i because i believe the real goal to be increasing planetary production by taking up more facility slots. its easy to make a better planetary yard, but we want the cost trade off to be in facility slots as well as initial build time. the spaceborne stuff is just gravy on top.

as for cargo space, might as well just slap on a cargo container. the repair is an added bonus, because you would expect anything that can construct to have some limited repair abilities as well.

[jimbob55]

OK, it would be possible (quite easy as well) to split the yards into a repair bay + a construction bay by creating a repair yard based on the repair tech. I know this doesn't seem realistic but until more than one yard is allowed on a planet it is impossible to muck about with it (i was thinking of having up to 3 modules for the yard, each using a different resource and you can have as many of each as you want).



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[Aussie Gamer]

We should see if it is possible to get a building that increases the production of units as well.
Such as a fighter factory (fighters), or boots camp (troops)!
Hope Aaron is reading these.

[Barnacle Bill]

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
And, just by the way, it has occured to me more than once that a Space Yard ought to include a Resupply Depot. Surely an industrial complex designed to build and repair ships is going to have the relevant infrastructure to RESUPPLY them, too? Its seems idiotic that you can strand a ship by upgrading it's engines (if it doesn't have supply storage, too) at a space yard planet without a resupply depot.

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As I think about this, a space port should also include a resupply depot, and a space yard should include a space port & resupply depot. You would need to make the cost difference sufficient that people wouldn't just build space yards everywhere, though.

[Tomgs]

You mean some people don't build space yards everywhere? I have a spaceyard on 99% of my planets because the time it saves building facilities is worth the time to build the spaceyard on larger worlds and on smaller worlds they sit there like lumps if there are no spaceyards on them. A tiny world with 6 or 7 spaceyard bases and a spaceyard can build a fleet. One with a research facility just sits there .