New races-maintenance reduction

[Suicide Junkie]

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I think I'll just mod it so that all components cost half as much and all vehicles have built in 50% reduction. Then I'll go laugh at all the maintenance reduction races for a game, then give them other abilities.

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Sooo, 5% maintenance races, getting half off maintenance, and half of the cost of ships, leaves races with
1.25% maintenance
Do you recall back in v1.35 or so, where zero maintenance races were possible?
1% maintenance races are just as bad!

Play a large galaxy with few AIs, and feel the wrath of thousand-ship fleets.

[Egregius]

Err...do you mean maintenance reduction is cumulative instead of multiplied?

Like say I give all vehicles -50% maintenance, and a race takes 20% maintence reduction they have 30% reduction as opposed to 40%?

Ok so that gets halved too leaving 15%.

But where did you get 5% maintenance races from anyway?

[Suicide Junkie]

The racial characteristic "maintenance reduction" does adding & subtracting.
The Vechicle/Component ability does multiplication/division.

So if the race takes 20% maint reduction,
25% - 20% = 5%
50% mantenance ability on the vehicle hull:
5% * .5 = 2.5%
Half price on components, makes the total bill come to the equivalent of 1.25% maintenance in Standard SE4