Posted by: Haegan2005
« on: May 03, 2008, 01:40:09 PM »This is a good idea. The ability to share smelters and fabrication facilities between slipways is a necassary capability of a shipyard. But if fewer then all of the slipways are being used then it would amke sense that the shipyard support base would be able to focus on only the slipways being used.
Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "Brian"What I was actually suggesting was that multiple slipways in a single shipyard that could already build the size ship you want could be allowed to combine their building speeds to some extent. This would make a high capacity shipyard with several slips have to choose between making multiple ships at the same time or one ship faster. The other side of this is if you want one ship faster, you should not get as many ships over time as having each slipway work on a different ship. The choice would be few ships built in a reasonable time, or more ships taking siginificantly longer to make but getting more of them at once.This might be possible. To avoid any interface issues I would just have empty slipways divide a portion of their capacity among other tasks into the same shipyard, using modular construction as you suggested. There would probably be a tech line that increased the portion of capacity that could be used in this way.
Steve