Posted by: Rich.h
« on: July 03, 2014, 12:45:26 PM »Thanks for the help, looks like a big task and sadly the way it works with the gas giants looks like my empire will never have an edenist habitat.
Yeah, all shipyards are orbital shipyards. If you think about the difficulty inherent in launching, say, a 25,000 ton craft from the surface of the earth (without blowing up a continent) you can see why this is the case.
Naval Shipyard Complex - Used to build Naval/Military Ships. Base capacity 1,000 tons. Can build both military and commercial ships. Each shipyard has a number of slips and can build 1 ship per slip. The shipyard is also only configured to build 1 class of ships (though in some cases very similar versions of ships may be built without retooling). Population requirements - 100,000 per shipyard plus 1,000,000 population per slipway. Base building rate is 400 pts/year. This is upgradeable via research.
Commercial Shipyard Complex - Used to build Commercial Ships. Base capacity is 10,000 tons. Can build only commercial ships. Each shipyard has a number of slips and can build 1 ship per slip. The shipyard is also only configured to build 1 class of ships (though in some cases very similar versions of ships may be built without retooling). Population requirements 100,000 per shipyard plus 1,000,000 population per slipway. Base building rate is 400 pts/year. This is upgradeable via research.