Put them on a carrier. Their deployment won't drop while they are aboard. You can actually do this for anything you can fit in one of your hangars.

Interesting, will a commercial hangar work? If so, I think I need to build a big fleet training station.

Edit: I did go look at the change note for Commercial hangers, it says maintenance will increase, but says nothing about deployment time. I can't find the documentation regarding military hangers. If someone can link that to me I would be grateful.

Sorry for the very volley of newbish questions. I made the mistake of leaving a bunch of FACs with 3 month deployment time in a training command and giving them orders to overhaul when deployment exceeded. Seems they never took vacation despite the overhaul happening, and that was not very consistent.

Do I need to move them out of the training command when the overhaul clock expires? In an older version I know I got a warning every tick if a ship was in a training command and in overhaul, but that seems to have not happened this time. I also think they were getting shore leave when I got that warning in the past, but it has been a long time so I am not sure. This is definitely the first time I remember checking on a fleet that has been in a training command for a while to find it had gone from 0 to -8% training.

My assumption is I need to notice when the 3 months is up, and manually move them to a different command for shore leave, but I am really hoping there is a less tedious way to do this. Is there?



For near future reference: If I have them on their carriers, will they train? and will they need the same treatment as when training alone? Carriers should be built in a little over a year.

I strongly suspect I am missing something because it was pre-2.2 last time I played. But I completed research into my first missile (Trident AMM for a missile defense frigate), but it is not available for ordnance construction, or on the Ordnance & Fighters tab of class design, or visible in the technologies window.

Have I missed some step in the process? Or have I hit a bug? I suspect the former, but if y'all say it is the latter I will move this to the proper thread in the bug forum.

Attached a few screenshots and a zip with other screenshots and the database. Need to re-learn how to use this forum for inline images and such.

I am a fool! I kinda remembered (wrongly, but it's been a few years) that your first ship was free so I didn't need to retool... But I still need to assign the class of course! No faceplam is enough to decribe what I'm feeling right now...
Thank you kindly for your answer and your time, it was great help!

Thanks for the answer. I checked all of the above mentioned possible problems before posting but it'not that.
Here's the Survey Vessel:

Abdiel class Survey Vessel      2,804 tons       42 Crew       310.5 BP       TCS 56    TH 250    EM 0
4458 km/s      Armour 1-17       Shields 0-0       HTK 15      Sensors 16/0/0/2      DCR 0-0      PPV 0
Maint Life 3.30 Years     MSP 534    AFR 126%    IFR 1.7%    1YR 74    5YR 1,110    Max Repair 150 MSP
Captain    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 18 months    Morale Check Required   

Apollo Commercial Ion Drive  EP250.00 (1)    Power 250    Fuel Use 5.30%    Signature 250    Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 150,000 Litres    Range 181.6 billion km (471 days at full power)

Thermal Sensor TH1.5-16.5 (30%) Thermal Sensor TH1.5-16.5 (30%) (1)     Sensitivity 16.5     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  32.1m km
Improved Geological Sensors (1)   2 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Survey Ship for auto-assignment purposes

I even designed a pure commercial ship just to double check (so it's pretty random\bad):

Acheron class Freighter      34,962 tons       57 Crew       344.2 BP       TCS 699    TH 500    EM 0
715 km/s      Armour 1-95       Shields 0-0       HTK 19      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 1-0      PPV 0
MSP 6    Max Repair 62.5 MSP
Cargo 30,000   
Commander    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 13 months   

Apollo Commercial Ion Drive  EP250.00 (2)    Power 500    Fuel Use 5.30%    Signature 250    Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres    Range 24.3 billion km (392 days at full power)

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Freighter for auto-assignment purposes