Same ship different stats

[ringworm]

Okay just integrated a race. Suddenly noticed much better ships in my fleet (my laser BS 101). The new bad boys 122 ,as hard as I tried i couldnt replicate the stats in ship designer so I took them out the main fleet to stop them being upgrade .... and then the stats dropped. Whats happening?

in large fleet
http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/99476522496896678/FDE3A71137FB0943408754F92526F41B628B8F0F/

small fleet
http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/99476522496897633/A8E666698390714218E38CA665C225ED86CB2F98/

 

[Chirs]

maybe your admiral is buffing the ships? I can't see if you have one

 

[Peko?]

I can't think of anything else that would increase DPD that way.

 

[ringworm]

lol your right ops. thank you

 

[Simoom]

Another thing I just recently learned - Fleet Academy at a spaceport will buff a ship built by that spaceport ONLY (I used to think the academy applied an empire-wide buff, apparently not).

This means any ship built by a spaceport with a Fleet Academy will always have higher stats than ships built at a spaceport without it, no matter how you recobfigure or upgrade your fleet.

This can be annoying and hopefully addressed in a future patch (i.e. allowing all ships to be upgraded at a spaceport with the Fleet Academy for the bonus).

 

[GamerSteve]

... which is why I build the fleet academy, eventually, at nearly every spaceport... or at least at the ones I am going to use regularly to build ships.

 

[Anaraxes]

which is why I build the fleet academy, eventually, at nearly every spaceport.

For warships, you also want to build at a place with an Engineering Bay. And of course the Corvette, Destroyer, Cruiser, and BB yards for faster and cheaper. That's six, taking up all the slots in your starport. So I usually dedicate just a couple of main construction bases, which aren't the same as my frontline/peacetime bases (with Crew Quarters to save on maintenance and Engineering Bay for repairs).

How many you need depends on how much attrition you expect. Corvette hordes are going to need more rebuilds than BB fleets, so you might need more construction bases to get more ships into the field faster. But it doesn't seem necessary to use every single starport for ship construction. And it would cost a huge amount of Influence to put a Fleet Academy at every starport.

All the other starports usually just live with economics (Solar Panel, Hydroponics, and Observatory).

 

[GamerSteve]

I usually do not put the CV, DD, CC, and BB yards all on one starport. I put ONE of those, plus fleet acad, plus crew quarters, engineering, observation, solar panel, etc. on each starport. Then I task the CV ones to build CVs, etc.