Fighter Maintenance

[Cavgunner (OP)]

Do fighters that have access to a Hangar Deck but not a maintenance facility suffer from maintenance failures?

[Steve Walmsley]

Do fighters that have access to a Hangar Deck but not a maintenance facility suffer from maintenance failures?

No, they don't. In fact, fighters can only use hangar decks to avoid maintenance failures. Maintenance facilities don't work for fighters.

Steve

[Cavgunner (OP)]

Thanks, after discovering how bulky maintenance modules are now, I was actually hoping that this would be the case.  This means I can still build one-squadron fighter outpost PDC's to watch over outlying systems. 

[metalax]

No, they don't. In fact, fighters can only use hangar decks to avoid maintenance failures. Maintenance facilities don't work for fighters.

Steve

Is this a game balance decision? It kind of make sense that a planet with maintainance facilities would be able to maintain fighters that are based on the ground at airports/spaceports.

[Steve Walmsley]

Is this a game balance decision? It kind of make sense that a planet with maintainance facilities would be able to maintain fighters that are based on the ground at airports/spaceports.

It is a game balance decision. Because one maintenance facilities can support an unlimited number of ships, a couple could support hundreds of fighters. This rule encourages you to have somewhere to base fighters before you build them.

Steve