Posted by: Brian Neumann
« on: October 28, 2013, 07:48:19 PM »sounds clever, BUT it would mean that your geo are military in this case...Not automatically, as long as the ships were basically a civilian design with only the grav sensors being a military system then the geo survey ships would still be civilian. They can be built in a military yard, but the design itself is civilian and all the actual ships would be civilian. The downside to this approach is that military yards are generally harder to expand for any given size so you will not be building as many ships in the same time period due to having fewer slips to build with. You can get around this by using your construction factories to build as much of the ship as possible (sensors, engines, crew quarters, etc.)
Brian