Updating freighters

Straight and simple: are there any reasons to upgrade the freighters of your established trade routes to a new version? I mean, if I have a trade route with - let's say - the Paulos and then I research better engines and life supports, that allows me to build a quicker freighter with a larger range, has it a sense to kill the trade route with the Paulos in order to reestablish it using the new freighter?

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Basically, No.

Some far out considerations that MIGHT mitigate that (in YOUR mind) might be:
1) Sometimes it pays to kill an underproducing TR and reestablish a generally more profitable (longer) one, with a faster ship to get it in operation sooner.
2) Faster freighters on the routes may out run some raiders (pirate or enemy) and therefore require less replacement.

I generally just rely on the general technology increases to speed up my freighters, and I try to build the Galactic Privateer if I am very trade dependent for economic balance.

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kryo

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2) Faster freighters on the routes may out run some raiders (pirate or enemy) and therefore require less replacement.

Minifreighters go 1 tile per turn no matter how fast the original was.

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Ooh! New strategy / management datum. Thanks, kyro.

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Depending on where the trade route is I sometimes up grade frieghters to have more sensors. Its nice to see more of the space around my trade areas cause I use the minor races as trade partners and I want to keep tabs on them so I can make sure they stay alive.

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