How to Build a Warship Quickly

[南极星]

I played the great qing and built 5 military shipyards and 20 warships, but the price of warships not rise, no one want work in the shipyards. Warships make very slowly. How can I make the price of warships rise that people can go work in shipyard

[Alex]

You can subsidize your shipyards. But, 5 shipyards for 20 ships are way too many, just a single shipyard is enough.

[南极星]

Originally posted by Alex:

You can subsidize your shipyards. But, 5 shipyards for 20 ships are way too many, just a single shipyard is enough.

1 shipyard enough? How can I quickly build 200 warships in ten years?

[6ap6apblckaAa]

You said you wanted 20 ships...
Problem is that naval bases recruit slowly, so you need to build shipyards one by one as the demand rises, not all at once.

[Alex]

You just have to calculate. A military shipyard provides 35 man'o'wars. Then, a frigate unit consumes 1 unit, while a warship one 3 units, and you need to have both at least in a half-half ratio. Which means that a flotilla of 20 ships would use 40 units, just about enough to be supplied by a single shipyard.

[南极星]

Originally posted by 6ap6apblckaAa:

You said you wanted 20 ships...
Problem is that naval bases recruit slowly, so you need to build shipyards one by one as the demand rises, not all at once.

raising military wages to the highest level be effective?

[Alex]

Originally posted by 南极星:

Originally posted by 6ap6apblckaAa:

You said you wanted 20 ships...
Problem is that naval bases recruit slowly, so you need to build shipyards one by one as the demand rises, not all at once.

raising military wages to the highest level be effective?

That, and also raising the literacy level. Universities help as well.

[6ap6apblckaAa]

Speed of naval bases reqruitment does not depend on literacy level by itslef. Literacy helps if you do not have enough qualifications (officers), but this should be checked separately.
Training rate (speed of recruitement) depends on chosen production methods of naval bases - select highest, if you have enough officers in the state. It also gets a malus if you have military wages lower than medium, but raising higher than that won't help.
Also, there are some events that modify it, but they are very specific.