Dry Dock

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Details 3 Dry Dock chart 4 Timing 4.1 Hint 5 Notes

[edit] Overview

Some ships are equipped with a dry dock, that can build ship hulls in space. The size of the dry dock determines the maximum size of hull that it can build. For example, a 500kt dry dock can build any ship hull with a mass of 500kt or less.

[edit] Details

To build ships with a dry dock, you may either use Quick Build (preferred), or the Build tab of the Ship Command screen. Quick Build will allow you to build completely outfitted ships without having the parts on hand. The Build tab, however, will only allow you to build empty hulls with no parts attached. In both cases, the dry dock ship must have enough metals and cash in its cargo bay in order to build the ship (and the MC and metals for parts, if using Quick Build).

A dry dock can build an unlimited number of ships in a single turn, as long as the needed resources are available in its cargo bay at the beginning of the turn (this is different from building ships in bases).

• Ships built by a drydock will use the crew and fuel of a base of theirs instead of the crew and fuel on their own ship when available.

Ships built from a dry dock will now escort the dry dock at the dry dock's speed (if the newly built ship is capable). It will start with fleet member enabled, share fuel, ordnance, and repair enabled, with minimum fuel setting to 30, and minimum ordnance setting to 1000 (so set the dry dock as Fleet leader and switch on share fuel, ord and repair to exchange this materials with the newly build ships). It will match the attack and damage repair settings of the dry dock. (Host 213.46)
Remember to plan ahead and have additional supplies on hand for your new ships: you'll need ordnance, repair units, fuel, and crew.

[edit] Dry Dock chart

the following ships have Dry Docks and their capabilities are listed below.

Race	Ship hull	Dry Dock Size	Mobility
The Aczanny Pyramids	Vulture Class Support Ship	600	Self Propelled
	Nest Class Starbase	100,000	Must Be Towed
	Roc Class Dreadnought	600	Self Propelled
The Birdman Republic	Avalor Station	2,000	Must Be Towed
The Centaurs	Shahmia Class Starbase	500	Must Be Towed
The Colonies of Man	Aries Class Metal Ship	10,000	Self Propelled
The Commonwealth of Mivorari	Mivorari Atlantis Space City	7100	Self Propelled
The Evil Empire	Slayer	10,000	Self Propelled
The Holy Draconian Empire	Krait Class Dread Star	600	Self Propelled
	Draco Class Battlestation	10,000	Must Be Towed
	Polaris Class Fleet Support	1,000	Self Propelled
The Interstellar Master Traders	Vegetarian Orbital Fort	20,000	Must Be Towed
	Great Pyramid	10,000	Self Propelled
The People's Army	Sacrifice Improved	500	Self Propelled
	Haven Advanced Battlestation	5,000	Must Be Towed
	Independence Cruise Carrier	900	Self Propelled
	Autonomy Elite Battlestation	20,000	Must Be Towed
	Off-World Colony	20,000	Self Propelled
The Rebels	Rebel Space Platform	5,000	Must Be Towed
The Reunited Coalition of Systems	Binary Class Star Port	1,000	None
The Scavenger Tribes	Atoll Class Star Post	7,500	Self Propelled
	Reigendo Class Stratofortress	250	Self Propelled
The Solar Federation	Terra Class Star Base	10,000	Must Be Towed
	Super Nova Man-of-war	5,000	Self Propelled
The Solorian Unity	Eclipse Class Starbase	500	Must Be Towed
The United Enforcement Authority	Ranger Class Station	210	Must Be Towed
The University Alliance	Hive Class Carrier	100	Self Propelled

Races without Dry Docks: The Lizard Kingdom, The Stormer Kingdom, The Privateer Bands, The Cyborg Collective, The Crystal Assembly, The Robotic Imperium

[edit] Timing

• If you use Quick Build then they are built at the beginning of the turn along with the rest of your ships. General Kael
• Building only the hull using the normal build screen the ships are built after all movement is finished.

[edit] Hint

When you build ships via build tab of Ship Command screen you need to outfit the ships via Outfit Pods afterwards. To save time use the following method:

• Turn 1:
  • a) Build hull at drydock
  • b) Create outfit pod (no dock target/boost etc)
• Turn 2:
  • a) Dock pod to empty hull and set command to "push"
  • b) Use ship as if it was outfitted (Note podbays -1 available due to outfitpod)

[edit] Notes

• You can even build alien hulls by having the plan stored in the ship data bank, you will have this option via quick build if you have enought metals and money on board the ship at the begining of the turn.
• Exception: Dry Docks cannot build Coalition hulls.
  • The Coalition's Binary Class Star Port can build all RCS ships (except itself).