[Fyron]

Originally posted by LostCommander:
Yet another question... How exactly is the final maintenence value of a vessel determined? Say with the original maintenance set at 50, a 1K resource cost base (-50% maintenance bonus) of a race with a 125 maintenance aptitude is 250 resources in maintenance per turn. If a component is added (base still costs 1K) that reduces maintenence of a vehicle by 10%, when and where is it applied? Would the base's maintenance be 225, 200, or 75 resources per turn in maintenance costs (or something else entirely)?

Thank you very much!

The Maintenance Aptitude trait bonus is subtracted from the base 25% value. 120 MA means you pay 5% maintenance for ships. 50 MA means you pay 75% maintenance. Maintenance reduction abilities on vehicles and components are multiplicative instead of additive. Bases get 50% maintenence reduction. So, a base owned by a race with 120 MA pays 2.5% maintenance.

Note: Ships are hard-coded to have a minimum base maintenance cost of 5%. If you take 120 MA and Merchants culture, you still pay 5%, not 0%.

The maintenance trait can be fixed (made multipilicative instead of additive) by making the base maintenance cost be 100 and giving all ships 75% maintenance reductition (and bases get 95 IIRC, check P&N for the exact value). The MA trait should then have its max increased, and cost per % lowered.