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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Elmo on January 04, 2010, 10:15:24 AM

Title: Shipyard conversion?
Post by: Elmo on January 04, 2010, 10:15:24 AM

Sorry if this has been answered already.  I tried to search on shipyard but it came back as too common a word for any results.

Is it possible to convert a commercial shipyard to naval or vice versa?  Thanks.

Title: Re: Shipyard conversion?
Post by: Steve Walmsley on January 04, 2010, 11:20:22 AM

Quote from: "Elmo"

Sorry if this has been answered already.  I tried to search on shipyard but it came back as too common a word for any results.

Is it possible to convert a commercial shipyard to naval or vice versa?  Thanks.

No, you can't convert one to the other.

Steve

Title: Re: Shipyard conversion?
Post by: Elmo on January 04, 2010, 12:08:54 PM

Thanks.  And just to clarify, you can build commercial ships at a naval shipyard but not the other way around, correct?

Title: Re: Shipyard conversion?
Post by: Steve Walmsley on January 05, 2010, 09:49:29 AM

Quote from: "Elmo"

Thanks.  And just to clarify, you can build commercial ships at a naval shipyard but not the other way around, correct?

Yes, that's correct. Any military system on a ship prevents it being built in a commercial shipyard.

Steve

Title: Re: Shipyard conversion?
Post by: PzKenny on July 18, 2012, 06:34:00 AM

Hi all,

I have a follow up question regarding Shipyards.

What is the use of building Commercial Shipyards? They are as expensive as Militairy Shipyards and are limited by building only Commercial ships.

Am I missing something here?

Gr,

PzKenny

Title: Re: Shipyard conversion?
Post by: metalax on July 18, 2012, 06:39:57 AM

Commercial shipyards start out at 10,000 tons capacity rather than the 1,000 tons of naval shipyards. They can also be increased to a significant capacity far quicker than naval yards. As commercial ships tend to be of significant size, you can start building them far quicker at a commercial yard rather than wait for the time it takes to expand a naval yard to the required size.

Title: Re: Shipyard conversion?
Post by: PzKenny on July 18, 2012, 09:33:15 AM

Thnx for the quick reply Metalax.

So I did miss something.  Guess I start constructing a Civil Shipyard right away.

PzKenny