Production
One builds production facilities for equipment (shipboard weapons & equipment), tanks and starships (fighters, destroyers, cruisers); and Flagships require their own production facility, an orbital station. Each factory contributes to a total factory capacity, which designates how fast the player can produce items (given the player has enough money to produce units).
Starships above fighter size come with basic equipment (e.g. a hyper drive and some of the weakest weapons); The player has to produce the desired equipment and manually reequip every ship in a fleet. While this works out fairly good in the beginning, it gets tedious in later stages of a game, when it's not uncommon to handle five or six fleets at once. . It is unknown why Digital Reality went for this system instead of a generic blueprint design, which you can change in one place (much like in Master of Orion 2 or in Digital Reality's sequel game Imperium Galactica II - Alliances)
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“Constant revolutionizing of production ... distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
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—Debbie Taylor (20th century)