Hiya! I'm trying to train my task force. So far it is working: my ships are accruing training grade. I got my fighters properly docked as well, and they're doing great. To deal with the fuel issue, I set the fleet to refuel and resupply at earth, then move to earth on a cycle: they're basically sticking around on Earth as they train. However, with the rate that they're accruing maintenance- and crew deployment time, I'm afraid they'll suffer from disastrous failures and/or terrible consequences due to low morale.
For that purpose, I wonder how other people do it, and whether...
(1) ... I can safely overhaul the ships during the training without messing up their training gains.
(2) ... it's safe to ignore the increase in maintenance time so long as I keep them supplied (and whether it will swiftly drain my supplies).
(3) ... morale affects fleet training gain. If it doesn't, I should be capable of ignoring morale entirely while training, right?
Thanks in advance!
I have standing orders for training fleets to refuel or resupply when a ship goes below 20% - . I usually include a tanker and supply ship in the training fleet so that all the ships keep topped up, and its the tanker or supply ship that triggers the resupply/refuel action.
I periodically overhaul the entire fleet when they go over deployment. Most of my warships tend to have the same 1 year deployment, I don't tend to bother with training for survey ships or scouts (generally speaking speed of response to orders is usually not a problem for these)
It does require manually moving the fleets out of the Training admin org to avoid the "ship XX cannot benefit from training while in overhaul" spam, and then moving them back once the overhaul is done, and I ignore the one-off warning about the tankers & supply ships not able to be overhauled (as they're CIVs).