So, I was revisiting this thread (for the use of a solo SAE game) and I do like the idea that to receive the discount for a ship, the shipyard must be tooled for that design and the discount is based on the number of ships that the shipyard has personally produced. Of course, I would can the formula to be:
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ship cost x 2 / Square root of (current ships produced at this shipyard +1); round up
That cost is based for the turn, so if 10 ships are made, the discount for those ten don't occur until next turn.
I don't know how to handle ships that a shipyard isn't tooled for (perhaps ship cost x2) or how many ship designs can a shipyard be 'tooled' for, but I'm working on it.
-Bren