maintenance for commercial ships

[glawen (OP)]

Hi,

I think i've understood now how the maintenance system for military ships works (and the necessity to put maintenance bays on your ship designs ), but how does it work for commercial ships.  I've got a few commercial designs (freighter, colonist, geo survey) and they don't have the failure percentages, and although they have a Max repair value, you can't add maintenance bays to them.  Do they also suffer from maintenance problems, if yes, how do i tackle them ?

TIA

[glawen (OP)]

Ok, i think i found it in the tutorial about commercial shipping.  Commercial ships don't get maintenance failures, good to know 

[Zook]

... you can't add maintenance bays to them

*Engineering spaces* do the actual work and prevent failures, maintenance bays just store additional supplies. At least I think that's how it works.

[Jikor]

That's correct. The engineering spaces are like workshops where things are maintained / repaired on the go on ships. The storage bays are like cargo spaces where spare parts are kept.

[Nathan_]

Commercial ships can still carry/transfer spare parts with engineering spaces.