Hi guys, this want be a general recal on the ship maintenance rules, which are still partially unclear to me, as I still make confusion with Aurora VB6 rules.
First of all, I have read two major post:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg101959#msg101959and
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg116381#msg116381So, if I well understood:
1) Commercial ships do not require any maintenance facility while at a planet or in the space, they do not need overhaul, they only need spare parts (MSP) to be repaired if damaged after a fight. They can in theory sit in the deep space forever.
2) Military ships require a maintenance facility at a population or in the space they need a bigger ship with maintenance module (like the huge WWII ARD that were acting as an harbor for the battleships).
3) Military ships while docked at a maintenance facility or bigger ships consume MSP (which are producted from the main. facility and they require some minerals).
4) Each main. facility means 1000t, so having 10 of them means the possibilty of docking 10000t military ships without malus.
Now the questions:
1) In the Naval Organization panel under Logistic Report I can see for each ship, "Deploy" and "TSO" label, what do they are?
2) Always in naval organization - Ship overview - Ship design display I can see "Deployment clock" and "Maintenance clock". What do they are exactly? Which is the relationship between TSO, Deploy, Depl. Clock and Maint. Clock?
3) Where I can check a general MSP consumption trend?