Posted by: Paul M
« on: December 11, 2012, 03:03:11 AM »See http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,4835.msg56433.html#msg56433
If you have less than 3 months deployment time for a ship, it will be classed as a military vessel. Although most commercial vessels will not be affected by low morale, they still suffer from it. The three month requirement for commercial is to ensure that freighters, etc. will have some room for the crew.
Sometimes it will be worth having longer than 3 months for a commercial vessel though, such as a commercial-engined geosurvey ship.
Steve
Ok I missed the part about a change to military for less than 3 months. But my current freighters/fuel harvesters have 24 months crew endurance as the trips they are on are minimum of 1 year long. I'm fairly sure most of my comercial ships have endurances of 12 months although there are exceptions. I hate the constant pestering about morale. I do use the morale message for my geosurvey ship to know when to pull the team off the rock they are ground surveying and go back for a break. My tramp freighters have less endurance but they are planned to go from one settlement to another so they can always go on shore leave.