Maintenance Cost

Description

Ships now have four maintenance levels, in order .

Main features

• []The maintenance levels set the max HP % of the ship.[/]

  []The max HP % maintenance levels is a soft bound. Crew can only repair the ship up to the max HP %. Carrier or equipment dock can repair to 100%. However, HP over the max HP % will gradually decrease to the max HP %.[/]

  []Maintenance level will increase by one after an interval. The larger the ship size and the higher the overall star rating, the longer the interval between interval change.[/]

  []Ship suffering a heavy hull damage from a single hit has a tiny chance of increasing the maintenance level by 1. If ship is already in Junk state, this will immediately kill ship.[/]

  []Ships docked or without a pilot will not increase maintenance level with time.[/]

  []Restoring maintenance level to New requires performing a Recondition at an equipment dock / ship building facility / carrier / resupply ship.[/]

  []Two new orders to "Recondition" at a selected place and to automatically find a place to "Recondition Nearby". Automatic resupply will also auto perform recondition if maintenance level at "Damaged" or below.[/]

  [] Automatic recondition prefers equipment dock over ship building stations. Automatic recondition will NOT consider carrier and resupply ships due to the large volume of wares required.[/]

  []New maintenance level panel in the player property menu.[/]

  []Recondition a ship requires a fraction of the wares to build that ship. The higher the maintenance level, the more the ware costs.[/]

  []The credit cost of recondition is fixed to be twice the max total price of the wares consumed.[/]

• []Ship building wares from different building method can be used interchangeably for recondition. E.g. A terran ship requires terran wares to recondition by default. If not present, recondition will attempt to consume wares from other building method.[/]

  []Ships in the Junk state and with HP below 25% have a tiny chance to self-explode every now and then.[/]

  The maintenance level stats:

  New:           Max HP 100%

  Scratched: Max HP 80%, 10% of ship ware cost to recondition

  Damaged:  Max HP 60%, 20% of ship ware cost to recondition

  Junk:          Max HP 30%, 30% of ship ware cost to recondition

  Attention: This mod will add significant pressure to logistics and production capability.