Military organization and maintenance

[roug (OP)]

Hello.

I am well in to my first ever serious game of Aurora4X i am using low research rate so everything goes slowly.

I just have a few questions.
I am just wondering, is it only sphipyards that can rewind the maintenanceclocks?
On militaryship how long are your maint life usually?

I am asking because i would like to have a militaryfleet in all my populated systems, but how do you store them so they dont use much maint supplys? if i have a planet without shipyards a long way from home, and i have a big fleet there, how do you do it?

[Black]

Overhauling ships is mainly done by maintenance facilities. You decrease maintenance clock in shipyards during refit of the ship.

So if you want to deploy ships to your colonies, you need to provide maintenance facilities. They need population and can make MSPs if you have resources on planet. Or you can ship MSP from different place. You can also use maintenance ship or stations, they do not need population but are quite large and they do not produce MSPs.

Check this post by Steve for more info: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg101959#msg101959