[Fyron]

You probably shouldnt mess with the settings file to much if you lower the maintenance settings below 90% you will probably break all the Crystalline Races and after you upgrade to the Last engineering section component or build the Systems Maintenance Facility for all players you will probably end up with negitive maintence numbers in a lot of of places and break the game whole game.

I don't think you can get negative maintenance values from combining just base maintenance rate setting and maintenance lowering abilities. Negative maintenance has to be acquired from having abilities on a ship that total more than 100% reduction. Maintenance value is not quite just gotten through pure addition. Look at the stock game, for an example. Base maintenance rate is 25%, bases have 50% maintenance reduction. This does not lead to -25% maintenance for bases, but 12.5%.

[ May 14, 2004, 21:00: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]