Unable to Overhaul

[horza (OP)]

Not sure if this is a bug, or I'm missing something.

I have a line of light carriers (23k tonnage) I've been training up.  I'm trying to overhaul them now and I'm getting:

{carrier} "cannot continue wth her overhaul as there is no maintenance facility of sufficient size"

I have 3 shipyards free, 39k tonnage, even tooled for the CVLs.  So why can't I get an overhaul to work?

[Panopticon]

Shipyards are not the same as maintenance facility. You build MF from industry, and can track your level by looking at your summary tab, I believe it is one MF per 200 tons, so you are going to need something over 100 MF for your carriers.

[horza (OP)]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have 68 MF at the moment, which should be enough for all my overhauls.  However I have a lot of ships in orbit at the moment - are the MFs considered in use if there are ships to maintain? NB I've been able to overhaul my smaller missile cruisers and escorts without a problem.

[scoopdjm]

That shouldn't factor in, as I remember you can maintain any number of ships at the same time as long as you have enough tonnage (in MFs)

Make sure you don't have a ship being built that will be placed in the fleet as that prevents overhauls

[horza (OP)]

D'oh.  Failure of basic math there : 68MF is definitely not enough for a 23k carrier.  Thanks to both for the replies, but Panopticon had it right.

[Thiosk]

Incidentally, no math required.  Check out the Planet Summary screen, and usually on the top right of the chart you'll see size of maintenance facility in tons.