Fighter maintenance and repair

[Mormota (OP)]

I designed a fighter, which, of course, does not have any maintenace capacity.  Even though they were orbiting Earth, they were suffering constant maintenance failures, so I designed them a PDC.  I added tons of maintenance spaces on the PDC, but for some reason that doesn't appear on the class summary window, only on the component summary window.  I put my fighters in 10-strong squadrons and assigned the squadrons to the PDC, but the damaged ones did not repair and they kept suffering maintenance failures, one even exploded! Even after I assigned them to the same TG as the PDC.  Also, on the TG window, my PDC's maint supplies is displayed as N/A.

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Scheer class Base    15 750 tons     375 Crew     1500.5 BP      TCS 315  TH 0  EM 0
Armour 5-55     Sensors 1/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
Hangar Deck Capacity 13000 tons     


This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 7 sections

That's my PDC design, if it helps.

[blue emu]

I put my fighters in 10-strong squadrons and assigned the squadrons to the PDC...

Did you actually LAND them on the PDC?

[Mormota (OP)]

Oh.  I didn't.  I never knew you could.  Thanks!

[blue emu]

You don't really need those tons of maintenance spaces, by the way. Once you've caught up your backlog of maintenance failures, a single Engineering section in the PDC will do fine.

Like you, I tend to make my Sensor PDCs seperate from my Airfield or Missile Base PDCs. It's worth including a Barracks, though, if you expect the planet to ever come under direct assault.

[Mormota (OP)]

You can't add engineering sections to a PDC though.

[blue emu]

You can't add engineering sections to a PDC though.

Try it and see.

[Mormota (OP)]

They don't appear for me.

[blue emu]

Ah... my bad. I was in SM-mode.

[Mormota (OP)]

I wonder if one could make that PDC then switch SM mode off and still have that PDC and its engineering module work.

[Girlinhat]

I usually abuse the "fighter storage" hull designation graciously.  Since PDC incur no maintenance cost, supermassive stoage bases are very worthwhile.

[fflaguna]

I searched everywhere and couldn't find this answer, and even found a couple threads that said it was impossible to repair fighters in non-space-based hangars (i. e.   PDCs).   Well, I can report that it is indeed possible to repair fighters and get their maintenance clock to 0.  0 with a PDC.   It only needs to have hangar space.  You do not need fuel tanks or maintenance modules of any kind on the PDC.   Only hangar space is required.   Don't forget to [Land] your fighters on the PDC, or they will not start decreasing their clock. 

[Girlinhat]

That's more than likely old info.  It was also said "you can only repair armor at shipyards" but this is no longer true - you can repair armor in a hangar anywhere.

[Mormota (OP)]

Actually. A lot of my fighters have damaged components, and they are now finally in my mothership, landed and everything, I checked in the fighter tab. But they're not getting repaired. So... how to repair them?

[Hawkeye]

Never having repaired fighters, my guess would be on the "Individual Ship" screen (F6), select the PDC/Carrier and look where damaged parts are listed.

[Charlie Beeler]

Fighters only use the damage control for repairs.  As long as they are in a hanger they draw supplies from the host ship and can also repair armor.