Military Supply Ships

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How about introducing a second type of Supply Ship that transports military production to a shipyard instead of social production to a planet?

In my ludicrous games there is always the situation that newly colonized / conquered / small planets are quite bad at military production. Channelling their military production to another, existing shipyard is no option most of the time because of distance decay, so they end up each with their own shipyard that produces small ships or Treasure Hunt missions since large ships need forever. If I would be able to transport the military production elsewhere by means of special supply ships that problem would be solved (and new tactical decisions would arise. e. g. like where to send the production and whether to escort the supply ships).

It would be nice if there would be more than one size of supply ships (that's also a wish that I would have for existing supply ships), especially smaller and therefore cheaper ships would be good.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi,

 

If you're lucky enough  to have the "Motivational Helix" on a high production planet (and a soupcon of thulium) then you can generate charges of 500 production for 3 Thulium repeatedly which means that big ships can be rushed in new shipyards.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting lycan371, reply 1

Hi,

 

If you're lucky enough  to have the "Motivational Helix" on a high production planet (and a soupcon of thulium) then you can generate charges of 500 production for 3 Thulium repeatedly which means that big ships can be rushed in new shipyards.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

 

I know that (and have used that already), but still I would prefer a lessrandom mechanism, that has also the "logical" benefit to not generate production out of thin air and to pose a logistical challenge.

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