Posted by: Brian Neumann
« on: December 28, 2010, 05:49:19 AM »You can give them missile launchers. They become a military ship though and will need maintenance.As long as they do not have any power plants or engines they are not likely to just explode. Those are the two biggest culprits of ships dying due to lack of maintenance. The part that failed will just not work. If that is an orbital module with 50,000 people in it then they are probably dead/transfered to the planet. If there is enough infrastructure to support them, my guess would be that they are fine. Just make sure to have lots of spares so they can fix their maintenance failures as they occur.
1 maintenance facility will support a 200 ton ship. A bigger ship needs more facilities.
Orbital Habitats are 250 000 tons per component. Good luck. =P
I wonder what happens if they suffer a maintenance failure... XD
Brian