Can you “restock” ships?

[Tijn]

#10657

I’m finally getting into Ascendancy this last weekend of the month and I feel I generally have a solid grasp on the game after having completed the tutorial (and having played other 4X games).

One thing I wonder about though (as the subject suggests): is it possible to restock ships? Especially colonisation ships. I’m putting together these large “seed ships” filled with colonizer modules, but once they’re all used the ship becomes kind of useless.

Do I just abandon it? Is that my only option? I tried flying back to a shipyard, but I can’t figure out a way to put new colonizer modules in.

[reidrac]

#10658

Yes, you can! You need orbital docks. It takes less time to change a ship (e.g. add a new invasion module) than building a new one.

[Tijn]

#10659

Nice, thanks!

[Cas]

#10661

Hi! Oh, you’re doing Ascendancy! It’s one of my favourite 😀

Indeed, you can restock. As @reidrac says, you need to have researched so that you can build Orbital Docks. Depending on the case, it’s a good idea to do this, but I only do it sparingly.

The main disadvantages of refitting your ship, from my perspective are that, if your planet is advanced, it’ll be busy refitting while you might be building a new ship and often, you can build a bigger ship by the time you need to refit the old one. And also, you often find yourself too far from any developed planet that can refit your ship. Taking your ship back home to do it takes time, unless you have a Recaller. Also, you can only refit one ship at a time per planet, but if you’re organised, it can be a good idea.