Posted by: xeryon
« on: February 09, 2012, 09:18:43 AM »The way I was figuring is that the geo and grav ships use commercial engines for fuel economy but are classed as military with military jump engines which I think cost more to build. In my limited experience I have needed more military slips anyway to build and maintain my military fleet and in a pinch my survey ships have acted as jump ships for small military fleets without needing a dedicated military jump cruiser until the military fleet has needed a dedicated support vessel.
This doctrine may be well off the mark in efficiency, but in my current game my auto generated SY was 3 navel yards and 1 comm yard so this doctrine fit RP wise. It was also made possible via starting RP and further assisted by having no propulsion researchers. So I started with military jump drives but lack an efficient researcher to develop a commercial drive so never committed the research facilities to it.
This doctrine may be well off the mark in efficiency, but in my current game my auto generated SY was 3 navel yards and 1 comm yard so this doctrine fit RP wise. It was also made possible via starting RP and further assisted by having no propulsion researchers. So I started with military jump drives but lack an efficient researcher to develop a commercial drive so never committed the research facilities to it.