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I was wondering if it would not be more practical to build hollow ships with nothing on board, and to retrofit them to match an ennemy's weaknes when time comes.
Would it be more expensive to retrofit ships that were built with nothing in them (i.e. with a much lower industry cost) ? Is it more expensive to retrofit several steps at a time ? How is the cost calculated ?
What I have in mind is to find a cheaper solution than stacking dust and buying everything when you are attacked.
Fleet size is determined by Command Points Cap, found on the left (Diplomacy and Trading) branch of the tech tree.
Clicking on a fleet and looking at the number next to the satellite dish icon is a quick way to see the fleet size limts. Here 16 of 16 slots are used.
Note: Researching Quantum Communications unlocks C3 Systems which gives you +2 cap for each new ship class acquired (ship classes are unlocked in the bottom tree, Exploration and Expansion).
Explanation from dev blog post:
Defence Type & Hulls
Since the release of Disharmony, the different hulls have a new property called Hull Weakness, which modulate the received damage: the lowest hull weakness is, the more resistant the hull. A large ship has 100 Hull Weakness, a medium 200 and a small 300. The damage modulation is directly related to the value of the defence: the higher the defence value, the more efficient is a low hull weakness. With this new patch, Deflector has the highest defence value, then shield and finally flak. So that means that a large ship receives a better protection from deflector than flak because of the final impact of hull weakness will be lower in the first case.
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Refitting/upgrading ships appears to be done at a fixed cost based on the hull size - this is regardless of how much is being changed.
There appears to be no discount when refitting multiple ships.
It's rather expensive and so it would probably make your plan not feasible.