Posted by: Marthnn
« on: March 02, 2012, 08:49:53 AM »Give them a little money in return to speed them along to the next ship construction else it might be a while till they build another.I'll do it for RP reasons, but I have no problem whatsoever on that part. My cheapest designs are luxury liners, at 2500 BPs, while colonisers are at 5000 and freighters at 12000. I also went a while with colonisers obsolete, so the civilian liners built a lot of the cheap design. With Earth, Mars and Mercury set as sources of colonists, the civs keep doing luxury liner runs between those 3 worlds and generate a lot of cash. I think it's not really exploity, well-established worlds close together are bound to be inter-connected that way.
I have 10 different liners, each with between 6 and 64 ships in service. The less successful liner has an income of 7500 per year, enough for luxury liners after dividends. The ships mean tonnage is over 100k tons, and mean income per ship over 800 per year. I might design the next generation ships bigger so the total number of ships isn't too high, right now they are at 300. Maybe even outright obselete all designs until I need more.