These seem to get lost in the morass of the WWW bits and I can't find straight answers in the DevDiaries:
1. Can we set the older models that are still being produced when a new model is developed to slowly switch over (that is to say, if I have 15 factories producing stuff, and each is producing a # of them, once each factory has finished it's assigned value to cease production) and automatically transfer their production to the new equipment?
2. Is there a function for naval and air units to 'exercise' like the army can? For instance, we see Johan sending his fleet around Germany, basically from the get-go. Or can there be an 'exercise' (I would assume a limited number or rotational sort of thing, like Red Flag/Top Gun for the air forces and RIMPAC or a FLEETEX) where it is of short duration and only can be done a few times (for instance, if the weather is cooperative)... I would assume that this can't be kept up indefinitely, and after a certain period of time the RoI is minimal. I recall something that might be that they consume supplies while doing so, maybe? While I don't want to jump to any conclusions, I daresay that even the most trained army in the world (Israelis) can only do a month-long "block" training rotation. For deployment, we were at Camp Shelby for maybe two months and did about three solid weeks worth of training. Marines though, "train" for six months (ish) for a deployment. But peacetime manpower rotation also would chip away at that efficiency.
1. Can we set the older models that are still being produced when a new model is developed to slowly switch over (that is to say, if I have 15 factories producing stuff, and each is producing a # of them, once each factory has finished it's assigned value to cease production) and automatically transfer their production to the new equipment?
2. Is there a function for naval and air units to 'exercise' like the army can? For instance, we see Johan sending his fleet around Germany, basically from the get-go. Or can there be an 'exercise' (I would assume a limited number or rotational sort of thing, like Red Flag/Top Gun for the air forces and RIMPAC or a FLEETEX) where it is of short duration and only can be done a few times (for instance, if the weather is cooperative)... I would assume that this can't be kept up indefinitely, and after a certain period of time the RoI is minimal. I recall something that might be that they consume supplies while doing so, maybe? While I don't want to jump to any conclusions, I daresay that even the most trained army in the world (Israelis) can only do a month-long "block" training rotation. For deployment, we were at Camp Shelby for maybe two months and did about three solid weeks worth of training. Marines though, "train" for six months (ish) for a deployment. But peacetime manpower rotation also would chip away at that efficiency.
