Posted by: skoormit
« on: August 25, 2020, 08:53:45 AM »So... is there a way to award grants to civilian shipping lines in C#? If there is please help, because that option appears to be well hidden.
There is no ability to directly subsidize civvies like we had in VB.
They will grow organically whenever there is a current unmet shipping need and they have the wealth to build a new ship.
To give them more wealth, you can give them contracts to haul installations back and forth between two colonies.
The closer the colonies, the better.
In a Sol start, Earth-Luna is the obvious choice.
In a non-Sol start, if you don't have a close pair of natural colonies, it is probably worth creating such a pair if you are going to use this tactic with the civvies.
In fact, depending on your play style, you might want to do this to spend wealth that you are otherwise wasting due to the wealth cap (2x annual racial wealth).