Like the ECM changes.

Why not just convert captured CMCs into automines?

I read some earlier posts about MSP and then had a little mishap of my own which got me thinking. What if bigger engineering departments could reduce MSP maintenance cost? Which would give us something to consider when designing to manage fleet MSP consumption.

The source of this idea is a little story in its own right which I will explain. I am still playing v2.1.1 so forgive me if I am missing out later versions' maintenance mechanics. It happened recently in my current game at a well populated outpost in Proxima Centauri that through 'administrative negligence' the colony's MSP ran out and PPV orbitals with varying MSP storage and build costs accrued deployment at different values per class, which puzzled me until I realised colony MSP ran out followed by the orbitals' onboard MSP, resulting eventually in deployment clock starting then component failures. It became apparent that box launcher based orbitals lasted longer than turret based orbitals due to lower build costs and thus lower maintenance costs and as luck would have it slightly higher onboard MSP stores.

I found this interesting and in digesting this mishap wanted to direct the empire towards an MSP consumption economy drive, wondering if I had missed a way to influence vessel maintenance cost in some way, besides making cheaper PPV vessels and avoiding deployment and concluded I had not. As I understand it engineering volume improves maintenance life and reduces the 5yr MSP requirement significantly but does not change maintenance costs.

The C# wiki rules say maintenance cost is 0.25x build cost per annum regardless, so orbitals can have very small engineering components and it will make no difference to maintenance cost as long as EMR (effective maintenance rate) from maintenance facilities is 100% and they have MSP supplies. If I understand correctly, its only when EMR is less than 100% that maintenance life and 5yr figures come into play in relation to the maintenance failure hazard, as happened at Proxima Centauri causing an alert for component failure and inability to repair due to lack of MSPs, which caught me by surprise! 

e.g. a 1000t ship with build cost 280, can have different sizes of engineering bays giving practical maintenance life of between 7.5 to 1.5 yrs and figures for 5yr use between 150 and 1500 MSP respectively but maintenance cost will always be 70 MSP/pa. What if maintenance cost was a bit lower or higher depending on engineering space, to reflect the better maintenance life and repair facilities that larger engineering departments provide? Just thought it might be worth a mention.

Used ChatGPT to put together some ship names based on my favourite book Series Red Rising.

Creates names from charactor names to place names along with some common phases from the whole series.

Examples:

Reaper’s Revenge
Cassius's Honor
The Gorydamned
Thorn of Ilium
Society’s Fall
Breaker of Chains
Blood of the Rim

New Casus belli unlocked. Harvasting those sweat XCM mines.

Whats the best way to capture these without accidently blowing them up.

Big support on the ECM/ECCM change that just hit 2.6.

Incredibly big support. Huge support. I want to thank that post multiple times, but I'm pretty sure alts are against forum rules (they usually are).

Off topic, Spinal Particle Lance sounds so scary. MacroFAC/"corvettes" running one single spinal particle lance is going to be such a threat now XP

If/when I stop my current forever game (or put it on pause), next run is speccing particle/gauss and ignoring lasers.

In light of this ECCM change... how to do this? Probably have similar W*(0.75)^(Enemy - Own), where W is constant base weight like 5 (current even tech behavior) or 3-4 (slightly worse at even tech, full power above even tech, much better at lower tech). So decoys are always helpful but only a tiny bit if your ECM is drastically overpowered, and ECCM is helpful if better tech.

I personally think if there's an upper clamp then Even Tech should put it slightly below the upper clamp but that's just my opinion, and I've only played for a month or so.