How can I build transport ships?

[Bossmo]

pls help :D

[Mistfox]

Build an assault army, click embark. They board their own ships.

[NixBoxDone]

You can't, they get built automatically when you build assault troops - that's why they're more expensive. To move them, just press "embark all" on the planetary army tab.

You can design the transports to be more tanky/have advanced engines, though.

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by PonySlaystation:

You can't, they get built automatically when you build assault troops - that's why they're more expensive. To move them, just press "embark all" on the planetary army tab.

You can design the transports to be more tanky/have advanced engines, though.

You can?

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

Originally posted by Bomoo:

Originally posted by PonySlaystation:

You can't, they get built automatically when you build assault troops - that's why they're more expensive. To move them, just press "embark all" on the planetary army tab.

You can design the transports to be more tanky/have advanced engines, though.

You can?

With a mod I think.

[Enju]

Set auto-design on. - Launch troops - Transports auto upgraded to highest Sensor/Travel/Engine automatically.
And no, you cannot design them yet. It is listed in the "To do list" though

[Professional Pat]

enabling auto-design ships will also upgrade them, since they're an automatic design

[NixBoxDone]

Yeah, can't remember ever having seen a transport ship that wasn't "mated" to a company of assault troops - the ships disappear when you invade a planet and reappear when you embark, so they'd have to be, really.

If they were separate entities, you'd see empty transports in orbit during ground assaults.

I am currently looking at an updated transport design with armor plates, so I'm pretty sure they are customizable - mostly because I just did.