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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Elvang on September 27, 2011, 07:45:34 PM

Title: Stockpiled parts...
Post by: Elvang on September 27, 2011, 07:45:34 PM
Do stockpiled parts get used for refits or when the design is built by construction factories (orbital habitat/pdc)?
Title: Re: Stockpiled parts...
Post by: ZimRathbone on September 27, 2011, 09:48:13 PM
No - stockpiles are only used by new Shipyard construction
Title: Re: Stockpiled parts...
Post by: bringit133 on September 27, 2011, 10:22:04 PM
Someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe they speed up the rate at which the ship that would use those parts is built.
Title: Re: Stockpiled parts...
Post by: Brian Neumann on September 28, 2011, 05:05:33 AM
Someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe they speed up the rate at which the ship that would use those parts is built.
I would need to check to see if this would cover refits to a new ship class (modernization) but IIRC it does.  The parts in your stockpile are reduced by whatever can go on a ship.  The ship is then considered to be that far along on the building of it and the remainder of the time needs to be put in by a shipyard.  A good example would be a military beam weapons escort.  I built the engines, weapons, fire controls, sensors, and power plant and put them in my stockpile.  When I started to build the ship it took all of those parts and added them to the ship under construction.  Said ship was now almost 80% complete so the remaining 20% was all it needed to actually build.  In this case the original build time was 20 months.  It actually took 4 months to build.  I have managed with a lot of prebuilding parts to make a 30,000 ton energy combatant in just 3 months when it would normally have taken almost 30 months. 

Hope this helps
Brian