Maintenace Value

[DavidG]

So is there a bug in the Maintence value for your racial trait?? I just experimented with this and the results you get are clearly not in line with the values you select. ie you would think that if you choose 110% for maintenance you would be 10% better that a race with the default 100%. But this is not the case!!! Could be why I'm getting my but kicked in a PBW game.

[Fyron]

It isn't a bug, so much as an oversight. That trait lowers the base maintenance, not the maintenance paid.

You can fix it in mods though. Make the base maint. paid be 100%. Give all ship sizes 75% maintenance reduction, and bases 96% (IIRC). Then, 1 point in Maint Redux actually lowers maintenance paid by 1%. Of course, then you need to raise max level of Maint Redux and lower its cost and raise the threshhold level, as 10% becomes worth less than 500 points. Look at the Pirates and Nomads mod for an example of a mod that fixes the Maint Redux trait.

[Krsqk]

Right now, you get better performance than what the numbers indicate. A 10% increase in your maintenance trait lowers your base rate from 25% to 15%--a 40% improvement. Some mods, including PvK's Balance Mod and SJ's Pirates and Nomads Mod, seek to address this issue.

[Fyron]

Krsqk, the numbers tell you how much it will lower base maintenance. They lower it by exacty what they indicate.

[Krsqk]

To-may-to or to-mah-to?

If you're thinking it lowers it from 25% to 15%, you're right. If you're thinking it lowers your maintenance total by 10%, you're getting a better deal than you think.

[Fyron]

I think that it does say it lowers base maintenance costs somewhere official.