Posted by: sloanjh
« on: July 13, 2011, 11:48:28 PM »I think we have a misunderstanding. You said "My ships' maintenance clocks are advancing even though they're in orbit of Earth and Earth has more maintenance capacity than the size of any ship". (Paraphrase)
I said "How did you get your ships into orbit of Earth?"
You said:
If what you're actually saying is "oops, my ships started moving away from Earth at speed 1, so they weren't in LEO even though I thought they were" and "What is the reasoning behind having ground-based maintenance facilities only work on ships in LEO", then the answer is "Because they only work on ships that are 'at' the planet, and if you move away even a tiny little bit the game considers you to be 'not at' the planet."
John
I said "How did you get your ships into orbit of Earth?"
You said:
I didn't get them into orbit. So that's why it's not working then. Though I'm curious to the reasoning behind having ground based things only work in orbit.This sounds like you're saying "I didn't get the maintenance facilities into orbit. Why should they need to be in orbit if they're ground based?" then you didn't understand what I was saying.
If what you're actually saying is "oops, my ships started moving away from Earth at speed 1, so they weren't in LEO even though I thought they were" and "What is the reasoning behind having ground-based maintenance facilities only work on ships in LEO", then the answer is "Because they only work on ships that are 'at' the planet, and if you move away even a tiny little bit the game considers you to be 'not at' the planet."
John