In the year before regular X-Ship production, each empire gets 3XTP a turn and is allowed to convert or produce a single X-Frigate on each of those turns, even though they may not yet have an X-Starbase. This ship serves as a test bed for evaluating X-technology and new tactics.

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 07:49 am: Edit

Ahmad, there is already a rule on this. It was published in Captain's Log #51. (5TX.0) Testbed X-Ships.

By Ahmad Abdel-Hameed (Madarab) on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 07:55 am: Edit

Oh. I didn't pick up that particular Captain's Log. Sorry.

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 06:14 pm: Edit

Indeed, if the conversion isn't done, no X-ships can be built until after it is ...