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Malagant -> Japanese Airframe and R&D Upgrade Process (2/11/2015 2:13:57 AM)
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Trying to understand Japanese Airframe upgrade process.
This aspect of the game has my brain completely numb. I’m hoping to write out how I think it works so you folks that are smarter than I can correct where I’ve got it wrong.
Let’s say I have at the start of the game an Airframe Factory (Happy Factory ‘A’) producing A6M2 planes. Assuming adequate engines, no user intervention, and no R&D, it will sit here happily producing A6M2 until Feb 44 when it will switch to A6M2 Sen Baku. This will result in no ‘damage’ to the factory as that is the upgrade path. In June of 44 it will switch to A6M5b, again no damage, and so on. If ‘Upgd’ is set to Off, this factory will not change the aircraft it is making, and will be perfectly content to make A6M2 until the Allies burn the place down.
Now add in an R&D factory (Happy Factory ‘B’), that’s ‘building’ A6M2 Sen Baku. I understand that it has to be completely repaired (which repair will only happen if Repair for that factory is not set to off) and that there is some random involved in how much effect it has, but it will move the upgrade date up. If Production is set to off, it will not generate any Research points.
When the ‘new’ Upgrade date is reached, the R&D Factory will immediately switch to a Production factory building the A6M2 Sen Baku, undamaged, and will happily produce those until Jun 44, when it will join Happy Factory ‘A’ in switching to the A6M5b, etc.
However, if Happy Factory ‘B’ has Upgrade to Off, it will not switch to a Production factory, but will instead continue its happy life as an R&D factory, but will begin researching the A6M5b. It will be undamaged, etc.
I can also manually switch Happy Factory ‘B’ to work on the A6M5b within one month of the current Availability Date without any damage to the Factory.
But for sake of argument let’s say I don’t want Happy Factory ‘A’ to switch to producing the Sen Baku because I want it to build something else…
If I switch Happy Factory ‘B’ to research the A6M3, it will be damaged. In 30 days it will be completely repaired and start potentially generating Research that will move up the Availability of that plane. As before, I now have a choice of either letting Happy Factory ‘B’ switch to Producing the Plane it had been producing, or to either manually or automatically let it move to researching the A6M3a.
Either way, once the A6M3 is Available, Happy Factory ‘A’ will NOT switch to producing that plane, as it is happily building A6M2 until the Sen Baku is available.
I could, however, manually switch Happy Factory ‘A’ to the A6M3 (yes, I know this would be bad, but this is just an example!). It would suffer damage (I believe this damage is semi-random, with more damage being likely the farther away from the current path it is switched to?) Then when the A6M3a is available, unless I stop it, Happy Factory ‘A’ will switch to the A6M3a without any damage and continue Happily producing those aircraft.
So then one more scenario…
Happy Factory ‘A’ is set to Upgrade off, happily making A6M2. Happy Factory ‘B’ is set to work on the A6M3. It switches to A6M3a, then the A6M5, the 5b, and then the 5c…
…and since the A6M5c is in the path of the A6M2, Happy Factory ‘A’ can be changed to building the A6M5c without any damage, and will continue happily building the 5c until the Allies burn it down.
So please let me know if I’m getting all this right. If so, it’s just a matter of choosing which planes I want to focus R&D on.
Also, I understand that having 500 engines used by the plane being researched will (can?) give a bonus, which consumes an engine.
Speaking of Engines, Engine R&D seems a whole other matter that’s not nearly as discussed…perhaps I’ll ask about Happy Engine Factories ‘1’ and ‘2’ later!
Thanks for any help provided!!
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