Shipyard/Warship Costs

[ForzaA]

Frigates were primarily useful for their speed. I suppose, if costs can be linked to tech, we could have galleys "become" frigates around 1700. They'd be faster and cheaper than warships, easier to build and half as powerful. That could be fairly interesting...

A warship should also require significantly longer build time and cost hundreds of ducats. Especially if we can manage something like the galley-to-frigate system.

Shock and Fire strength of galleys are modifyable certainly- that leaves us with their speed and the troublesome "galleys sink in open water" - Given that warships and transports get faster with technology, I would assume that ship speed isn't defined in all that many places (as opposed to, for example, # of provs. ) which probably means that if a well balanced well argumented proposal for change has a good chance of being implemented.

"Galleys sink" could probably be circumvented by declaring all seazones part of the med. but then galleys themselves won't sink either...