I'm a little confused by these numbers you list for Maintenance modules in conjunction with your given design. If the bays will now be 125 hull spaces then they should be 6250 tons each.Sorry, they ended up as Size 100, or 5000 tons.
Now THAT is an incredible macromanagement change! Thank you Steve! So, if I understand correctly, assigning ONE fighter to ONE mothership of a class will then continue to stock that ship class until all carriers are full?If there is a a mothership in the destination fleet that has fewer of the newly produced type of fighter in its hangar bay than specified in its class strikegroup, then the new fighter will be added.
There are also some changes to maintenance modules for v5.20:
1) They are now commercial systems
2) They can carry out overhauls
3) They are size 125 instead of size 25, although their cost remains at 200.
...Code: [Select]Wolverine class FAC Tender 39,100 tons 850 Crew 1608 BP TCS 782 TH 1200 EM 0Steve
1534 km/s Armour 1-102 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
Maint Capacity 1026 MSP Max Repair 200 MSP
Cargo 5000
Maintenance Modules: 5 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 1000 tons
Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive (6) Power 200 Fuel Use 6% Signature 200 Armour 0 Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 500,000 Litres Range 383.5 billion km (2893 days at full power)
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[code]Mackenzie class Maintenance Vessel 57,400 tons 1423 Crew 2503 BP TCS 1148 TH 1000 EM 0
871 km/s Armour 1-132 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
Maint Capacity 27 MSP Max Repair 200 MSP
Maintenance Modules: 10 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 2000 tons
Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive (5) Power 200 Fuel Use 6% Signature 200 Armour 0 Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 26.1 billion km (347 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
As fighters can't use maintenance facilities in v5.20, I have added some more intelligence to the location of newly produced fighters. At the moment in v5.14, you just assign a fleet as the destination for the fighters and you need to sort out assignments to motherships manually. In v5.20, for each new fighter produced the program will look for motherships in that destination fleet. If there is a a mothership in the destination fleet that has fewer of that particular type of fighter in its hangar bay than specified in its class strikegroup and it has available space, the new fighter will be assigned to that ship and placed in its hangar bay. This allows you to designate a carrier fleet and let the fighter factories add fighters straight into the hangar bays of the carriers.My races are normally major users of fighters; so all I can say is THANKS!
Steve
Wolverine class FAC Tender 39,100 tons 850 Crew 1608 BP TCS 782 TH 1200 EM 0
1534 km/s Armour 1-102 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
Maint Capacity 1026 MSP Max Repair 200 MSP
Cargo 5000
Maintenance Modules: 5 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 1000 tons
Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive (6) Power 200 Fuel Use 6% Signature 200 Armour 0 Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 500,000 Litres Range 383.5 billion km (2893 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposesThe ship below is more of a bare bones design, intended to provide or supplement maintenance facilities for an existing colony. It doesn't carry any supplies of its own. Five of these ships operating together would provide sufficient maintenance facilities for ships of up to 10,000 tons.Mackenzie class Maintenance Vessel 57,400 tons 1423 Crew 2503 BP TCS 1148 TH 1000 EM 0
871 km/s Armour 1-132 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
Maint Capacity 27 MSP Max Repair 200 MSP
Maintenance Modules: 10 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 2000 tons
Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive (5) Power 200 Fuel Use 6% Signature 200 Armour 0 Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 26.1 billion km (347 days at full power)
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposesSteveQuote from: "Steve Walmsley"It sounds like the consensus opinion is moving toward the simple change that maintenance facilities don't work for fighters?
Steve
That would certainly resolve the original problem that led me to ponder the dual orbital/ground nature of the maintenance facilities in the first place. It just feels wrong to have large numbers of fighters floating in orbit over inhabited planets with no obvious support networks. Especially when it would be fairly easy to make large PDC's with hangers for the fighters.
