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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Cavgunner on June 18, 2012, 03:42:51 AM

Title: Fighter Maintenance
Post by: Cavgunner on June 18, 2012, 03:42:51 AM
Do fighters that have access to a Hangar Deck but not a maintenance facility suffer from maintenance failures?
Title: Re: Fighter Maintenance
Post by: Steve Walmsley on June 18, 2012, 03:55:19 AM
Do fighters that have access to a Hangar Deck but not a maintenance facility suffer from maintenance failures?

No, they don't. In fact, fighters can only use hangar decks to avoid maintenance failures. Maintenance facilities don't work for fighters.

Steve
Title: Re: Fighter Maintenance
Post by: Cavgunner on June 18, 2012, 06:09:22 PM
Thanks, after discovering how bulky maintenance modules are now, I was actually hoping that this would be the case.  This means I can still build one-squadron fighter outpost PDC's to watch over outlying systems.  :)
Title: Re: Fighter Maintenance
Post by: metalax on June 19, 2012, 09:50:00 AM
No, they don't. In fact, fighters can only use hangar decks to avoid maintenance failures. Maintenance facilities don't work for fighters.

Steve

Is this a game balance decision? It kind of make sense that a planet with maintainance facilities would be able to maintain fighters that are based on the ground at airports/spaceports.
Title: Re: Fighter Maintenance
Post by: Steve Walmsley on June 19, 2012, 12:40:04 PM
Is this a game balance decision? It kind of make sense that a planet with maintainance facilities would be able to maintain fighters that are based on the ground at airports/spaceports.

It is a game balance decision. Because one maintenance facilities can support an unlimited number of ships, a couple could support hundreds of fighters. This rule encourages you to have somewhere to base fighters before you build them.

Steve