Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: horza on January 21, 2012, 12:04:08 PM
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.