- do they only build up to a set number of each specific ship type? or of each ship class?
- in order to maximise sales, do you need to have blueprints for every different specific type of ship available?
- does variety of equipment make any difference? do you gain any benefit from having any more than just the minimum equipment the AI needs to launch a ship?
- how do prices of ships automatically bought from player shipyards compare to prices of ships manually built by the player at the player's shipyard and then manually sold at AI shipyards?
- how are prices for selling ships to AI shipyards determined?
Potentially the higher price per ship is because the AI only orders them with low levels of equipment (??), but it seems like they only buy ships automatically at a set rate, but you can sell them an infinite amount of ships manually - so you can do much greater volume.
And it seems as if selling ships manually to AI shipyards, the prices can vary quite significantly across factions - but it doesn't seem to be determined by relations, so what does affect it?