So, I am noticing a couple of issues with maintenance in my current game.
My survey fleets suffer from failures, but they seem to be occasional and mostly engines. My military ships, on the other hand, seem to be riddled with issues.
Long story short, my rattletrap fleet is exhausting the supply of spare parts on my homeworld. At the 150 starting maint facilities, the supplies have vaporized under the rain of constant part failures.
The fleet is;
4x 17,160 ton cruisers (Particle beam)
2x 16,196 ton escort cruisers (AAMs)
2x 8,300 ton fleet scouts
2x 8,900 ton destroyer escorts (gun)
8x 8,057 ton missile destroyers
12x 8,435 ton frigates (railguns)
2x 16,170 ton beam defense stations
So, those 32 ships are devouring all my supplies. This is with them sitting in orbit doing nothing. As they have gotten older, they are literally disintegrating in orbit and running through my supplies faster than they can be replaced. What am I missing here?
I am overhaulling the ships periodically, but did I miss a mechanic somewhere? My frigates literally have gone from a once a year replacement of supplies, to once a month and its killing me.