[Snail]

That has been discussed before. There's one NTF Hecate to fight simply because it was a new experience for the player, who has never attacked a Hecate.

Does it mean that it doesn't exist?

It was a gameplay decision, but it in universe, the Corsica still exists no matter what you say.

[TrashMan]

Have you seen the ship scale thread? If we take into concideration that thread and the fact that we're talking about space ships, fusion drives, weird laser weapons and such, I find it logical to assume that building a massive space-faring war fleet eats up way more resources than building planes that can shoot missiles at civilian targets. And assault rifles.

With tech advancement and more ppl, it would be safe to assume that a bulding a warship in FS era takes roughly the same ammount of time and resources (comparative to the size/economoy) as it takes to build todays warships.

[Mars]

Doesn't it say somewhere that an Orion takes 3 years to manufacture?

[The Spac]

No there was something about how the cost of an Orion is the same cost ot pay it's crew for 3 years.

[Admiral_Stones]

No there was something about how the cost of an Orion exceeds the cost to pay it's crew for 3 years.

[Jeff Vader]

the cost to build one of these far outweighs the cost of paying the crew of this ship for 3 years.

[Snail]

No there was something about how the cost of an Orion is the same cost ot pay it's crew for 3 years.

No there was something about how the cost of an Orion exceeds the cost to pay it's crew for 3 years.

Are you two like, the same person but in different bodies or something? Grammar! (fragment consider revising)

[Colonol Dekker]

Alpha 1 never recieved a pay check in my experience. The tech room lies!

[The Spac]

No there was something about how the cost of an Orion is the same cost ot pay it's crew for 3 years.

No there was something about how the cost of an Orion exceeds the cost to pay it's crew for 3 years.

Are you two like, the same person but in different bodies or something? Grammar! (fragment consider revising)

No not the same person I just have terrible grammer and it looks like someone wanted to correct it. :-D

[AlphaOne]

Well  the Vasudans have at least 5 or 6 Hatties under their belt during the FS2 original campaign takes place. However if we were to be more realistic and use common sense we can safely asume they have at least 10 or 12 Hatties built by now with the hand full of Typhon's left after retrofitting thay would put the Vasudan count of large cap ships a bit lower then the Terrans but even so a significat force altough im asuming the Terrans have at least 6 or more destroyers above the Vasudans.
Considering the number of sistems controled by the Vasudans or for that matter the number of vasudan shypyards  we can conclude that the average building time of a destroyer to be about 1 year give or take a few months (2 or 3) .

This would be limited by the amount of res. available for the build and numeorus other factors. for example during wartime we can conclude that a ship can be built at least 2 times faster then during peace time etc.