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Post by generalvikus on Mar 1, 2019 15:00:59 GMT -6
As I understand it, a ship build with triple or quadruple turrets before the invention of reliable training and elevation gear for those turrets can be fitted with the gear once it is invented by a blank refit. However, what about a ship laid down before the gear is invented, but completed afterwards? Will it automatically receive the up-to-date equipment upon launch, or will it still require a blank refit?
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Post by aeson on Mar 1, 2019 16:01:34 GMT -6
I think it requires a refit.
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Post by bcoopactual on Mar 1, 2019 16:57:14 GMT -6
Yes it all depends on when the design was finalized (saved) and the ship file was created in the gamesave# folder. If a ship design with triple/quad turrets was saved before the the improved turret tech was researched the reliability penalty is recorded in the ship file so any ship built using that file, even a ship started as new construction after the improved turret technology has been researched will have that penalty. You have to create a new ship file, either through refitting the existing design or saving a new design. The resulting ship file will not have the reliability penalty and any ship built or refitted to that design won't have the reliability problem.
Same applies to ROF penalties for secondary turrets.
So for example if you design a battleship with early triple turrets and save it as Mississippi.10d and you start building ships using that file they will have the reliability penalty. Part way through their construction, you research the improved triple turret tech however, those ships are still being built to the old specification because that's what was specified in the contract (Mississippi.10d) that you signed with the shipyard. You have to create a new contract to fix the problem (Mississippi [R 1916].10d) and have those ships refitted. Any new ships would have to be built using Mississippi (R 1916).10d or a new design, Connecticut.10d and they would have the improved turret design. If you went back and ordered a new Mississippi.10d ship, it would be completed with the older, unreliable turret design.
You may think that that sounds kind of stupid that you can't change the specification mid construction but that is the way it actually happens in real life. I witnessed it myself during New Construction on PCU New Hampshire (SSN 778). Once the shipyard gets a contract they would rather build it to that contract and then get a new contract to rip out the old gear and install the new gear post completion because it is more money for them then it would be to agree to change the initial contract and install the new gear in the first place.
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