Repairs

[mottlee]

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Originally posted by Q:
Already now it's a good tactic not to destroy enemy ships but to cripple them. Or to gift/trade crippled ships. Your enemy will have to continue to pay maintenance for them and even for a human it's a pain to send a repair ship to the location of the damaged ship.
Yup it is......

The AI does not do it at all as far as I know.
Yes it can and did on me

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mottlee@gte.net
"Kill em all let God sort em out"

[raynor]

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That maintenance fee is quite high, glad I don't have to spend 25% of the cost of my car each month to maintain it!

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I'm not sure that is a fair comparison since your car can't travel 6-12 sectors per month and doesn't mount shields and a wave motion gun.

I seem to recall someone in a different thread explaining the maintenance cost as the total cost to operate the vessel for a month including personnel costs. If you were to assume that you needed four people to operate your car and included all four of their salaries as part of the yearly maintenance of the car, I think that cost would actually be much more than 25% of the cost of the car.

[Nitram Draw]

If I need 4 people to operate my car I sell the bugger
I still think it is high, even taking pay into account, considering how advanced the techs are.

[jc173]

I have my doubts as to whether modern warships and aircraft have operational, maintenance, and personnel costs that run to 300% of the vehicle's cost every year. Granted a space craft would likely be more complex, but I think the relationships should be fairly close. But then again I suppose it depends on if you count only the crew and direct support personnel ie for a plane the flight crew, the plane captain, the maintenance crew etc. I suppose if you total up the indirect support costs it might be 25%, ie quartermasters, cooks, chaplains, JAG's, MPs for base security, construction engineers to maintain a base ad infiniti.

[Suicide Junkie]

Don't frget to include fuel costs as well as replacement parts. And insurace for major repairs.

[Nitram Draw]

Somehow I have trouble imagining getting insurange on my Battleship! Heck I can barely afford my car insurance and I only had one fender bender

[Suicide Junkie]

$5,000 a month on a $20,000 vehicle is quite steep, and I think the insurance company would go for it.