Posted by: Llamageddon
« on: October 20, 2020, 09:09:10 AM »Mothballing ships would be a great idea. Useful, makes a lot of sense and pretty realistic.
Posted by: StarshipCactus
« on: October 19, 2020, 09:35:32 PM »In my personal opinion, the maintenance cost is very high. I also think you should be able to mothball ships.
Posted by: TheTalkingMeowth
« on: October 19, 2020, 08:46:03 AM »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.
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.
Posted by: Llamageddon
« on: October 19, 2020, 06:31:00 AM »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.
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.
