Questions about MSP use at a maintenance module/facility.

[Llamageddon (OP)]

In the changes logs it says "While a ship is being maintained, it requires total MSP per year equal to Class Cost / 4. A ship undergoing overhaul requires total MSP per year equal to Class Cost."

Does this mean if class cost is 2000 BP then 2000 MSP is needed for a full overhaul and 500 MSP to maintain it for 4 years, or does the class cost in this example refer to the MSP cost the cost of replacing every component once?

Either way I assume this means a maintenance ship should have a pretty large ammount of miantenance storage modules on it to be able to operate without having to regularly return to a planet with maintenance facilities and resupply.

[TheTalkingMeowth]

Class cost is BP cost to build the ship.

But, it's not quite as bad as you think. The overhaul per year cost is the cost to spend a year in overhaul...which would knock 3 years off the maintenance cycle time.

What's going on is this: if you keep a ship maintained by parking it over a maintenance location, its cost over time is 1/4 its BP cost in MSP, every year.
If you keep a ship maintained via periodic overhauls, you pay an average of 1/3 its BP cost in MSP for every year of existence. Plus MSP expended for maintenance failures.

[StarshipCactus]

In my personal opinion, the maintenance cost is very high. I also think you should be able to mothball ships.

[Llamageddon (OP)]

Mothballing ships would be a great idea. Useful, makes a lot of sense and pretty realistic.