new buildings: shipyard?

[tame flax]

Shipyard near the sea for spawn boat ?

With animation ?

[wicked oyster]

yes more boat

[rich walrus]

https://discord.com/channels/909034158205059082/1305198570202468413

[rose turtle]

Boats? Maybe yes. Ships probably nope

[willow hemlock]

Could be not bad, this idea have a sense, because, ship dead? Ok, you didn't have a fleet

[strange patrol]

I'd like to implement a shipyard building, that would act as a Factory for manufacturing ships and depot for spawning them.
Could be interesting, although you would not want a carrier to be laydown and launched every 5 minutes.

[runic frost]

B O T E

[cobalt hornet]

would make more sense if the ships were 'reactivated' from a mothball fleet rather than manufactured from scratch

[dense olive]

Is that the Australian or Canadian type 26 promo?

[rich walrus]

Boat=ship

[strange patrol]

That could apply to all units, considering they are made from thin air in a matter of minutes 😅

[cobalt hornet]

maybe, but in a war its more convincing that new ground units are continually being manufactured and replacing lost units on the front lines

but for big ships, a navy is only going to be fighting with the ships they already have

[tame flax]

i dont know exactly xD I pick a random picture on the internet

[hybrid jackal]

how about every hour tho

[stuck snow]

The war starts off as a limited conventional conflict, it’s not unthinkable that both sides would wrap up production of hulls in their yards before the nukes start flying. Remember, they’re doing the same for strategic bombers and entire armored convoys

There’s a couple spots around the map that could fit shipyards well- PALA could have one at Vigil and one on the southern coast, while BDF could have one at each of their northern bases. Maybe add some along the interior coastline to make it worth fighting for?

[cobalt hornet]

i can suspend disbelief on armored convoys being rapidly replenished as they are attritable assets
but personally i feel ships should be treated as irreplaceable assets and act as key targets, where losing one is unforgiving and permanent

i agree that there should be a way for some 'new' naval assets to be spawned in, but it needs to be done differently from ground units, not just increasing the spawn timer

[bright iris]

They feel very easy to lose in every match of escalation i've played
An ifrit/compass always gets in range, fires all of it's ordinance and then dies shortly after
Not many people do CAP (because it doesn't pay well at all) and the ships themselves only have good enough defenses to prevent planes from escaping
Which is not helped by the fact that by the time one can afford a tarantula to resupply the ships, they've already been sunk

[stuck snow]

if ships are irreplaceable assets they need to be stronger, currently the only way to keep ships alive is to ball them up and park the fleet off of a coast and constantly feed it naval supply logi