Selecting legacy ships under construction

[scaffold]

Hello everyone!
How do I select legacy ships under construction at a start of a game? I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do this. I always end up with all my legacy ships ready at the beginning.

[JagdFlanker]

start a new game with manual legacy fleet building

first you build your existing fleet, hit the 'continue' button, and next you will be prompted to build the ships you want to start the game with under construction

hit the 'continue' button again, and the game starts

[wlbjork]

Note that you do need to reserve some of the starting cash to pay for the preliminary work, unlike once you are in the game itself.

[sxv996]

Do people actually do this? I've never done it. Are there any benefits like reduced cost?

[zederfflinger]

If you would like to have some decent ships at the start of the game, than ya, you want to design them yourself. If you don't mind, or want more of a challenge, then AI legacy fleet would be better.

[aeson]

Jan 6, 2022 10:22:31 GMT -6 zederfflinger said:

If you would like to have some decent ships at the start of the game, than ya, you want to design them yourself. If you don't mind, or want more of a challenge, then AI legacy fleet would be better.

I would dispute the idea that the autogenerated legacy fleet will not give you "decent" ships; the ships of an autogenerated legacy fleet are generally at least adequate for what you'll need from them in the 1900-1910 period, and to me a ship which is adequate for the tasks it will need to perform is a decent ship. It is not necessary a good ship, but at least to me "decent" is a (usually much) lower bar to clear than "good."

To me, two much more relevant questions to answer before deciding whether or not to build a legacy fleet manually are:

1. Will I have fun building the legacy fleet?

- Yes: Build the legacy fleet manually.

- Definitely not: Don't build the legacy fleet manually.

- Maybe/No: Continue to question 2.

2. Do I want to do something with the legacy fleet that the computer will not do for me?

- Yes: Build the legacy fleet manually. The computer's not going to give me half a dozen 5,100t "battleships" and a dozen 14,000t raiding cruisers for a legacy fleet no matter how many times I restart the game; if that's the legacy fleet I want to have, then I'll have to build it myself.

- No: If the computer will give you a legacy fleet that will do what you want it to do and you don't think you're going to enjoy building your legacy fleet manually, then you probably shouldn't build the legacy fleet manually.

In the released version of the game, I personally almost always play on the 1900 start and build the legacy fleet manually - not because I think I can do better than the computer (I can, but that's not really relevant and the quality of the legacy ships won't matter that much a few years into the game anyways, as by then newer more advanced ships should be getting into service and will probably become the dominant component of the fleet just a bit later), but because I enjoy building the legacy fleet and can give myself a fleet that's not basically the same starting fleet that I've had for the past five games or whatever.

[wlbjork]

Jan 6, 2022 9:55:35 GMT -6 sxv996 said:

Do people actually do this? I've never done it. Are there any benefits like reduced cost?

Slightly as when you start the game you get a random number of months of construction already completed. You get more months of construction than the value of the 'deposit' that you pay to put the ship into the construction tab.