Maintenance Formula

[LintMan]

There's a setting in the Settings.txt file that lets you set the ship maintenance cost percentage. Unfortunately, it may not be working...

The default is 25% of the ship's original cost, per turn. I tried to adjust this to 10%, but the game still seemed to be working off the 25% figure. (Last week sometime I posted a message about this is some detail; you can still find the post if you look back a ways.).

The other factor in the maintenance cost is that you can use racial points to raise/lower your maintenance. It appears that if you pick a 10% maintenance reduction, the total maintenance percentage is reduced by 10% of the base percentage. So instead of 25% maintenance, you would have 22.5% maintenance cost.

As a side note - isn't that maintenace cost horrible? The 25% a turn means that maintenance costs for a ship add up to 250% of its build cost per year. If you won't need a ship for more than 4 turns, it's cheaper to scrap it and build a new one when you need it!