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Originally posted by henk brouwer:
There should be some kind of drawback to mothballing ships. At this point it's a far too easy way to keep huge fleets on standby without paying maintenance.
Maybe mothballed ships should receive some random damage to components depending on the time they have been mothballed. After all they don't pay maintenance so it seems pretty reasonable. This would also mean that mothballed fleets need some time to be repaired before they can be properly used again. These changes will make the game more realistic, and improve gameplay as well....
Or simply limit the time you can have ship mothballed to a number of years (could add a flag in settings.txt for that one), after which the ship will be automatically unmotballed with all the necessary resources used or simply lost if you don't want/have resources to spend.
Re: Does the AI use mothballing?
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