Making ships build faster

[faith2ess]

Is there any way to modify your save file to make ships build faster ? Large ships in-game can take 2 - 3 years to build but in real life (ww2) they were able to knock that time down to a little over 12 months.

Hoping there is a variable I can modify to make all countries build ships in a shorter time.

[Silamon]

I'm not sure what kind of ships you are looking at, but large BBs were not really being built in 12 months in ww2.

As an example, the Iowa was ordered 1939, laid down in june 1940, launched in 1942 and fully commissioned in 1943. The HMS Nelson was laid down in 1922, launched in 1925 and fully commissioned in 1927. Prince of Wales was laid down 1937, launched 1939 and commissioned in 1941.

Capital ships taking several years to be completed is perfectly realistic.

[Deez_Noots]

you can right click and 'accelerate' a ships construction in the game to make a ship a few months quicker but at extra cost and with a risk of delaying the construction of other ships

[The Major Grand Nope]

realistically you'd only ever be able to do this with corvettes, submarines and destroyers, battleships took years (Or a Year if your names the UK and its the Dreadnought) to complete, with Cruiser's getting into little over a year or two to complete, but otherwise, right click on a ship and accelerate that construction because there is no other way to increase ship production.

[Vilab]

You can add the british's trait "efficient ship building" to other nation so that they build stuff 10% faster too

Both in your current game saves, and in the starting games files

[faith2ess]

Thais what I was looking for thanks. how do I add that to my country in the save file ?

USS Essex, Keel Laid April 1941, Launched Jul 1942,m Commissioned Dec 1942.
USS Cleveland, Keel Laid July 1940, Launched November 1941
A Fletcher class destroyer could be built in 11 months.

In my current game own half the world.. still takes me 3 years to build a shp..

[Andrew Cree]

If memory serves, it's somewhere after the Research section, specifically the gun calibre/quality section.

EfficientShipbuildingIndustry is the term you want to search for

[Vilab]

Originally posted by faith2ess:

Thais what I was looking for thanks. how do I add that to my country in the save file ?

USS Essex, Keel Laid April 1941, Launched Jul 1942,m Commissioned Dec 1942.
USS Cleveland, Keel Laid July 1940, Launched November 1941
A Fletcher class destroyer could be built in 11 months.

In my current game own half the world.. still takes me 3 years to build a shp..

ctrl + H to replace
"EfficientShipbuildingIndustry=0"
by
"EfficientShipbuildingIndustry=1"
to give the bonus to every nation

either in the various BN1890, BN1900.... starting files in data in the steam folder for RTW3

or edit directly your save (RTWgameX) in Documents\My Games\Rule the Waves 3\Save\GameX