Any plans to subsidize some of our private corporations so that they can purchase more of their own freighters without requiring us to use our slipways?
Any plans to subsidize some of our private corporations so that they can purchase more of their own freighters without requiring us to use our slipways?
How far away are some BBs?
It turns out that refitting our Battle class Heavy Cruisers (these are our most MODERN ship, remember) up to Battle-II class standards will cost 109% as much and take 109% as long as simply scrapping them and building new ships from scratch. It looks like we left the refit a bit too long.
I'm going to do it anyway, to preserve our veteran crews instead of seening them disbanded.
100% for building a completely new ship
the remaining 9%, and the minerals you'd get for the old ship, spent on retraining the crew on the new ship.
How much WOULD scrapping the ship earn you as a %?
One can only hope that in future versions of the game, every single crew member will be tracked and can be transferred.
109% is probably worth it, although a new crew would have plenty of experience opportunities in controlled environments hunting Prix anyway. What is it 109% of in terms of build time? It probably does make a difference whether it's an extra month or year.
Scrapping returns 25% of the minerals spent in the construction of the ship.
It takes ten or fifteen years to train a crew up to the standards that ours have reached. Your espimate of 34% (9% + 25%) is probably far short of the mark... and by that time, how obsolete will the "new" ships be? Rebuilding (rather than scrapping and building anew) is the only way to get truly modern ships with truly veteran crews.
So it's a steal, right
We have now exploited about 600 of the 1747 archeological sites on El Dorado... a bit more than one-third. With our big stack of Engineers and our continually-increasing Xeno-Archeology bonus, the remaining sites should be explored at an ever-increasing rate.
Could we get a breakdown of the stuff that has been found so far, as well as the number of robots that have been killed, and maybe the experience of the personell involved?