Posted by: Vandermeer
« on: November 23, 2015, 12:29:50 AM »I believe the maintenance cost for standard maintenance(which you'd pay regardless) is 10% of a ships value per year. Hangar PDCs can alleviate this if you don't need ships out and about.Correction: 1/20th of build cost.
I once calculated that when you try to save those costs with planetary PDC, it will roughly need 22 years to make a profit from that, assuming the hangar is always full. However that is also not a fair calculation, because the PDC hangars costs are nearly completely Duranium and Vendarite, while with the stored ships you end up saving something much more valuable: Gallicite. Late game shortages are always in Gallicite, so a hangar will quickly be worth it once you are out of any Duranium crunch phase you might face on early stage.