Posted by: TMaekler
« on: October 03, 2016, 05:05:41 PM »The metagame reason is that this is intended to let us make proper repair ships, which will need to be civilian. If you let big ships reload their launchers in the field, it might well make box launchers too powerful.Yep, I see... good point.
But IRL, almost all warships these days are built at civilian-owned yards, and a lot of refits take place there, too. The USS Cole was repaired in Pascagoula, Mississippi, a civilian yard.