Posted by: Peter Rhodan
« on: July 28, 2011, 08:33:31 PM »I usually go for big yards on earth - 2 Naval and 2 Commercial - and set them to grow whenever they are not re-tooling or adding slipways - I find 4-6 slips the max here - I have found that down the track you need to keep shipping so many minerals into Earth to keep everything going it is better to build others at colonies.
For instance - my commercial yards on earth are 205,000T (5 slips) and 135,000t (5 slips) respectively - one is building my Mk III colony ships and the other refitting my Troop Transport/Salvager/Tanker combo ships - and the 2 Naval are at 36,000 (5 slips) (building up to 48k which is the largest Jump engine although that is still researching) and 16,000 (6 slips) - heading for 30k the size of my battleships.
I have 2 at another colony - one is at 9,000T (5 slips) building to 12kT which is the size of my Frigates and the other at 6,000 T (3 slips) which is the size of my Corvettes and is adding slips.
I have another at a 3rd colony of 12,000T (3 slips) which I am building minelayers at and adding slips. Another at 1000T (4 slips) which will be for FACs and which I am adding slips to.
I have 2 more building - one as a reserve in a dead end system and another as a forward fleet base.
I have 2 other commercial yards - 1 at 45,000T which is growing and at which I am currently re-fitting my old Mk 1 cargo ships to the new Mk III version which is like 3x as fast.
The other is around 40,000T and adding slips - I am building Fleet Maintenance ships here and then intend to build more astroid miners here.
Hope this helps
For instance - my commercial yards on earth are 205,000T (5 slips) and 135,000t (5 slips) respectively - one is building my Mk III colony ships and the other refitting my Troop Transport/Salvager/Tanker combo ships - and the 2 Naval are at 36,000 (5 slips) (building up to 48k which is the largest Jump engine although that is still researching) and 16,000 (6 slips) - heading for 30k the size of my battleships.
I have 2 at another colony - one is at 9,000T (5 slips) building to 12kT which is the size of my Frigates and the other at 6,000 T (3 slips) which is the size of my Corvettes and is adding slips.
I have another at a 3rd colony of 12,000T (3 slips) which I am building minelayers at and adding slips. Another at 1000T (4 slips) which will be for FACs and which I am adding slips to.
I have 2 more building - one as a reserve in a dead end system and another as a forward fleet base.
I have 2 other commercial yards - 1 at 45,000T which is growing and at which I am currently re-fitting my old Mk 1 cargo ships to the new Mk III version which is like 3x as fast.
The other is around 40,000T and adding slips - I am building Fleet Maintenance ships here and then intend to build more astroid miners here.
Hope this helps