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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Zook on September 07, 2012, 06:50:15 PM

Title: Why do my fighters explode?
Post by: Zook on September 07, 2012, 06:50:15 PM

When I forget to put newly built fighters in hangars and they hang around a while in orbit, they tend to suffer engine malfunctions and explode. The have no engineering spaces, but shouldn't maintenance facilities prevent that?

Title: Re: Why do my fighters explode?
Post by: Erik L on September 07, 2012, 07:06:12 PM

Maintenance facilities only deal with ships, not fighters.

Title: Re: Why do my fighters explode?
Post by: sloanjh on September 07, 2012, 08:35:49 PM

And the reason for this is to represent the cost of basing facilities, i.e. so that 1 maintenance installation can't support 10K fighters....

John

Title: Re: Why do my fighters explode?
Post by: Redshirt on September 08, 2012, 05:43:44 PM

You pretty much need to put them into hangers quickly. Fighters are wings strapped on barely controlled bombs. Long range fighters should take engineering sections. They come in a fighter-sized version at a fairly low tech level.