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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That would be a good idea. Of course, then you could design small ships with the engineering department, and get really low maintainence ships.
True. Early on the Engineering dept will be large enough and offer little or no maint reduction though so that should not be abused. Later in the game though once the eng dept gets small enough to use on the smaller ships and the maint reduction comes into play it could be a valid comp to put on a smaller ship and the lower maint should help to keep them a viable option, which is part of the goal of this whole thing.
Geoschmo