Refit ships?

[Grim47]

Just sent a bunch of my scouts to be refit into rocket ships, but they disappeard? What happened?

[Proteus]

They probably flew to the nearest planet with a starport and are now waiting in the construction queue of this planet in order to be refitted

[Grim47]

Ohh, I only have 1 planet with a starport and I just queued up a bunch of other rocket ships building from scratch. Does refitting take as long as making ships fromn scratch?

[Elethio]

no, it depends on how much it costs to refit, you should see a value next to the new design you choose.
The cost is basically dif in ship value + 10, so 10 prod, is the minimum refit cost.
You can re-order the build list and get the refits done quicker, they cost cost less.

[Boothy]

Also just a warning, as I assume your early game if you only have one star port. (and also assuming I'm not doing something wrong here!)

But at the moment, and I've no idea if this will change, if you select the option to refit all, it does every ship of that type across you're entire empire, which later on could be a lot! And it's not very bright about where they go, they just seem to fly to the closest, not the planet most capable, of refitting them quickly.

So fly your ships to your more capable planets first, then refit.

Anyone know if there is a refit only ships in this fleet option? Just seems to be one ship, or all ships atm.

[FOV Crusader]

Bermuta triangle

[Aldehydra]

Refitting is cheap if you refit to a similar design. Usually 10 production, though if you're refitting to something more expensive then you'll have to pay that difference too. Since you're refitting cheap scouts into bombers, you'll probably end up having to pay almost as much as you would for a bomber. You won't have to pay upkeep for the scouts any longer, though.