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It would make life easier if we could upgrade ships that are in a shipyard build list before the ship is completed, thus avoiding the loss of build points expended on the ship's construction.
I agree... with a stipulation.
If I am building a Small attack craft that takes 6 turns to build and I have one turn left until it is complete. I should not be able to switch it to a colony ship that costs 7 turns and complete it in two turns...
Different ship styles require retooling. you should lose something.
However if I have "Harbinger of Death Mk1" building and I go and upgrade the design and make "Harbinger of Death MKII" I really think the shipyard should automatically update what it is building and build the new design...
I agree to the extent that any upgrade should not allow you to change hull sizes. And I was referring to upgrades, as in going from one model of a ship to a newer one (for instance a colony ship with hyper drive engines to a colony ship with ion drive engines -- or newer sensors, or newer life support, etc.).
Add the costs of every part that has changed or moved and do not allow changing to a different hullsize.
I agree that you should be able to change a build to later version and just add the extra turns to complete the upgrade. Also it makes more sense to me to upgrade an older ship design at a shipyard and perhaps a planet or starbase than paying money to upgrade a ship in open space. A major upgrade would not really happen in deep space. An upgrade should also take turns to complete. This way it would using production to upgrade rather than paying cash or give the option to do either. You should also be able to use shipyard production turns to repair ship damage. Ships today go back to a shipyard for major upgrades and repairs.
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