[Phoenix-D]

A slightly better maitence scheme. What I'm thinking of is a empire slider for maintance, and -maybe- another one a the ship or fleet level. So you can over-fund or under-fund your fleets.

Over-funding would give a temporary bonus to experience (well rested crews), under-funding would do the reverse, and ships would not be able to completely re-fuel at resupply depots, repair themselves, or retrofit.

Ex: base maint is 20%. You fund at 10%. This is spread evenly over all your ships, so they must stay at a resupply depot two turns to be fully resupplied, their repair, construction and retrofit rates are at 50%. Each ship also has a 50% chance of taking damage each turn (if something breaks, it can't be replaced)

Underfunding, whether by choice or by budget starvation, becomes less the "ok, I'm loosing one ship per turn now" and a more realistic approach to what would happen in this situation.