Hey, first I read this thread
hxxp: aurora2. pentarch. org/index. php/topic,2387. 0. html
and it helped me a lot, but it didn't explain why refitting the ship actually costs more than just building it. I'm currently refitting an old ship for 150% cost. I take it that this means the cost of the new ship, not the cost of the stone-old ship.
If minor changes save time and money, that's cool.
If mayor changes save money but cost time, it's still worth considering.
If it takes longer and doesn't even pay off monetarily, where is my advantage??
You also mustn't forget the ressources I would get for scrapping the old ship => a "discount" if I build a completely new ship
So I think refitting should never cost more than building newly minus scrapping-refunds.
So maybe if refitting takes longer and is more expensive than [scrapping old ship + building new ship], than it shouldn't be possible at all and the game would tell you something like "This is a stupid idea. You might rather want to refit that ship. "
Is there anything I missed?
Oh, of course this way you can keep the crew, but this doesn't look realistic to me:
At the shipyard, the crew leaves shipA, travels along some catwalks, enters shipB. => wooops, this took 3 months and also minerals equivalent to half a battleship