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[L0ckAndL0ad (OP)]

Everything goes poof, you get nothing back. Never ever cancel a ship unless you absolutely must do so. You get more back by finishing the construction and then immediately scrapping the ship via the shipyard.

Sad. If minerals are spent proportional to completion progress, I have to spend like 15-17k units of Gallicite to finish the ships I've designed before I got more mindful about my mineral spendings. The problem is, the ship's upkeep in minerals over the years (what % is it anyway?) will be the bigger killer than the construction costs.

Decisions decisions..

Thank you!

[L0ckAndL0ad (OP)]

Also, if scrapping gives not more than 30% minerals back (I don't care about the money here, only minerals), anything that's not 70%+ finished will yield loss if completed and then scrapped. Am I right?

[Garfunkel]

Yes.

But you can keep construction paused indefinitely and resume when you have more minerals available.