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Slipways and Drydocks

Slipways can be used to build ships.  Drydocks can both build and repair ships. The given dimensions indicate max overall ship dimensions.

Expansion of slips and docks is limited to a maximum of one size per six months.

The cost of expanding a slipway or drydock is simply the difference between old and new costs.  It is assumed that slips/docks are built with later expansion in mind.  They are, naturally, unusable during expansion.




Drydocks may be equipped to construct more than one ship at once, provided that a one-time charge for acquisition of required equipment has been paid. Drydocks so upgraded are designated with a "+":

Type A+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $0.5
Type B+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $1.0
Type C+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $1.5
Type D+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $2.0
Type E+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $2.5
Type F+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $3.0
Type G+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $3.5
Type H+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $4
Type I+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $4.5
Type J+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $5
Type K+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $5.5
Type L+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $6
Type M+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $6.5
Type N+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $7
Type O+ Dry Dock: upgrade charge $7.5


MobileDrydocks

Mobile drydocks are, unlike regular drydocks, limited to repairs and refits, they cannot be used to build new vessels.  They are more expensive to construct than normal drydocks, but can be towed across oceans at slow speeds.




Fleet Bases

Fleet bases provide support to naval vessels.  A naval vessel that docks in a port that doesn't have a fleet base (or doesn't have one that's friendly with it's government) CAN refuel there, but ammunition won't be available and the ability to make repairs will be limited.

Government-owned Slips & Docks

The costs and capabilities in the preceding post apply to government owned slips and docks.



Commercial Slips & Docks

Alternatively, a vessel may be built or repaired in a commercial slip or dock.  These are not bought or paid for by the government, which only contracts with them for a particular project and provides certain non-standard items.  Ships built or repaired in commercial shipyards cost an additional 50% in $, and the first ship of a class built or repaired in a given yard requires an additional 25% build time.  [The extra time is not simulating that the commercial yard is any slower, but that reaching contract agreement takes time and that the commercial yard might already have another ship in it's facilities when the government would like it's vessel to be started.]


Foreign Slips & Docks

Another option, particularly for smaller nations, is to have vessels built in foreign yards.  Those yards can make use of technologies available to the yard but not yet developed by the purchasing country.  Costs to the buyer would be at normal commercial rates, as modified by the government of the country in question (ie, taxed).