Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: May 06, 2010, 07:48:00 AM »Quote from: "Maltay"
An Engineer Brigade is equal to a construction factory. You can effectively prefab ships by building all the components first with construction factories but you will still need a shipyard to build them. If you only need a sensor capability for your satellite, you could design a large buoy using the missile design window, build it with ordnance factories and deploy it using a large missile launcher.Quote from: "sloanjh"How much industrial capacity does an Engineer Brigade offer? Is there any mechanism among star ship components to pre-fabricate deep space satellites and later construct them in a manner similar to PDCs or OWPs when using an Engineer Brigade?
Yes they (PDC) can. This is the typical way to build them on your home world - simply build them. Pre-fab'ing is for shipping them to a world without much industy.
By the way, saying they can be built "by engineers" is technically correct but overly restrictive. Pref-fab'ed PDC require industrial capacity to assemble. It doesn't matter where the capacity comes from - it can come from engineers, or from normal industry, or from both. It's just another task in the industry queue.
Steve