Unless This is already a planned change with the other ground force construction changes i think this would help with the large cost of STOs
Consider this scenario:
Gallowglas class Weapons Platform 386 tons 19 Crew 30 BP TCS 8 TH 0 EM 0
1 km/s Armour 1-4 Shields 0-0 HTK 2 Sensors 0/0/0/0 DCR 0 PPV 3
Maint Life 0 Years MSP 0 AFR 77% IFR 1. 1% 1YR 3 5YR 47 Max Repair 9. 1 MSP
Lieutenant Commander Control Rating 1
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Morale Check Required
10cm C3 Infrared Laser (1) Range 30,000km TS: 1,250 km/s Power 3-3 RM 10,000 km ROF 5
Beam Fire Control R80-TS1250 (1) Max Range: 80,000 km TS: 1,250 km/s 27 23 20 16 12 8 4 0 0 0
Gaseous Fission Reactor R3 (1) Total Power Output 3 Exp 5%
Active Search Sensor AS1-R1 (1) GPS 1 Range 1. 3m km MCR 113. 5k km Resolution 1
This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
This design is classed as a Fighter for auto-assignment purposes
STO 1
Transport Size (tons) 262 Cost 18. 74 Armour 4 Hit Points 12
Annual Maintenance Cost 2. 3 Resupply Cost 0
10cm C3 Infrared Laser
Range 30,000 km Tracking 1,250 km/s Damage 3 / 1 Shots 1 Rate of Fire 5
Maximum Fire Control Range 100,000km Chance to Hit at Max Range 70%
Maximum Sensor Range 1,261,564km Max Range vs Missile 113,541 km
Non-Combat Class
Duranium 1 Boronide 11. 3 Vendarite 0. 24 Uridium 3 Corundium 3. 1
Development Cost 306
These are 2 almost identical weapons platforms, one designed as a ship one designed as an STO you would expect these to take a similar amount of time and a similar amount of workers to create would you not?
It turns out they do take a similar amount of time at the same tech level! the ship in the shipyard takes a month and 20 days, while the STO takes 27 days, around 1/2 of the time.
This makes sense! untill you realise that a 1000ton shipyard takes 250,000 workers and the ground force center takes 1 million.
I know they are specialized construction facilities but the number is too different in my opinion since this is a best case scenario and building larger weapons platforms up to 1000tons will get better and better worker to production ratio.
I propose making ground force facilities take somewhere between 50% and 25% of the workers they do at the moment to counteract this.