Posted by: Paul M
« on: November 28, 2014, 02:52:03 AM »As you are in 6.2 the act of refit will not be completed by the computer. So you can do what I do (under 6.1) and that is to schedule the refit, and when it completes I delete the old PDC and add in via the SM tool a new one of the appropriate class.
As far as the cost goes you have the option to pay it and get an upgraded PDC or to just assemble the existing PDC parts on some colony somewhere in the time honored tradition of using the obselete stuff to secure colonial possessions. Since PDCs don't cost you maintenance and would certainly do you more good assembled then not assembled there isn't really a lot of good reasons to not have them assembled "somewhere" as opposed to sitting in a warehouse gathering cob webs.
Missile launchers after all only require modern missiles to be essentially as effective and PDC missile launcher have a built in factor of 2 improvement in launch speed which means they are (depending on launcher size) three or more tech levels advanced anyway. You have paid an investment price in materials, money and time to build those prefabricated components so you may as well get something from them in my view.
As far as the cost goes you have the option to pay it and get an upgraded PDC or to just assemble the existing PDC parts on some colony somewhere in the time honored tradition of using the obselete stuff to secure colonial possessions. Since PDCs don't cost you maintenance and would certainly do you more good assembled then not assembled there isn't really a lot of good reasons to not have them assembled "somewhere" as opposed to sitting in a warehouse gathering cob webs.
Missile launchers after all only require modern missiles to be essentially as effective and PDC missile launcher have a built in factor of 2 improvement in launch speed which means they are (depending on launcher size) three or more tech levels advanced anyway. You have paid an investment price in materials, money and time to build those prefabricated components so you may as well get something from them in my view.