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6 BUILD & GENERAL ACTIONS6.1 BUILDING SHIPS The NEWCOL, NEWCRS and NEWFTR actions are used to build new colony ships, cruisers and fighters (respectively) in systems owned by your own empire. You may not build more ships in a system in a single action than you have industry and population in that system (you need both - you don't add the two together). If you order more than is allowed then the number will simply be reduced. The build cost for each ship type is as follows:- FIGHTER 3 BPs CRUISER 10 BPs COLONY SHIP 20 BPs Ships may not be built on planets under blockade or in systems that you don't own. Ships may move (etc) in subsequent actions the same turn as they are built. You have the option to leave the "Where" column blank, in which case the ships will be build in your "base" system (see 6.13) - at the start of the game this is your home star. These actions take the following formats:- [ NEWCOL ] [ WHERE ] [ NOT USED ] [ HOW MANY ] build colony ships [ NEWCRS ] [ WHERE ] [ NOT USED ] [ HOW MANY ] build cruisers [ NEWFTR ] [ WHERE ] [ NOT USED ] [ HOW MANY ] build fighters Note: The limit on the number of ships you can built is each action not each turn. There's nothing to stop you ordering the same action more than once in a turn. Note: If you want to build ships somewhere you've got no industry, then you can simply build the industry in one action and the ships in the next (providing you've got enough BPs to spare, and provided there's already some population, of course). 6.2 BUILD The BUILD action is used to increase the industry of a system owned by your empire. The cost is 5 BPs per level. The industry level may not exceed the population limit for the system (for black dwarf stars this means your Life Support tech level). BUILD actions may not be made in planets under blockade. Format [ BUILD ] [ WHERE ] [ NOT USED ] [ Number of Levels ] 6.3 GROW The GROW action is used to increase the population in a system owned by your empire. The cost is equal to the number of population already in the system. The population level increases by your Birth Labs tech level, up to the pop limit for the system (see 2.7). GROW actions are not allowed in planets under blockade, or where you don't already have population (you need a colony ship to plant a colony first) or where the population has already increased that turn (from another GROW action, or a COLONY action). Format [ GROW ] [ WHERE ] [ NOT USED ] [ NOT USED ] |