Quote:I still hold that say Battleships and Carriers at least take close to a year to build in Discovery, but smaller capital ships like Cruisers Destroyers and Gunboats are being mass produced and churned out several at a time every couple months.
I agree, if you look at the numbers in the lore (dont count Gallia because it is not lore...)
Liberty has 500-1000 cruisers?
Only a couple hundred battleships.
Obviously, Cruisers are far more mass produced, because they're smaller and cheaper than battleships.
Many Cruiser infocards reflect this, the Rhienland Cruiser says it is "The backbone of the Chancellors fleet" or some language similar, while the Battleship says its the Chancellor's "Checkmate move" which means there are less and they're used in a more strategic fashion.
Just my extrapolation.
As for how long it takes to design, designing takes far longer, if you look at more infocards, you'll see the Zoners -failed- with the Kingfisher...
It still flies though.
How many do you think fail and do not fly because they're unsafe?
Design takes much longer than building, I believe, in Freelancer...