Annual and Routine Maintenance

[far-trader]

Now, if I can only find out how much it costs for the annual overhaul...

That one is a little tougher. There is some errata but it didn't make it into the errata file or the second printing far as I know. The rules are in the Travelling section in the back, page 349 in mine, Routine and Annual Maintenance.

It is NOT "0.01%" as shown. It IS "1/1000th" as shown. It would be easier if it were shown as "Ship Cost* x 0.001".

* Before any price discount imo, but it's never been clear. Do not include expendables and independent items like missiles, vehicles and small craft. Expendables need to be refitted on a per case basis and vehicles and small craft should be maintained separately as required imo.

Now T20 threw in a another wrinkle, Routine Maintenance, and goofed on that formulae and/or description too. I don't recall off hand what the correct work is and don't have it handy. The book doesn't work it right though. If you can't find it (I did it up on the board here ages ago) check back here later tonight, I'll try to figure it out again.

 

[far-trader]

I got time to do a search and the post I made earlier came up easy, so here you go, my take on routine maintenance from a couple years back...

[FONT=arial,helvetica] The routine maintenance formula only seems to work out to the 20% savings if you "purchase" it as a package of 12 units (1 per month), though (as noted) you are allowed to skip 2 units and still get the full benefit.

Therefore what I've come up with for my game is making it a combination of maintenance and repair parts and tools totaling 12 units. Each unit is good for one monthly maintenance attempt (the Engineer may fail and need to use up another unit) or a single damage repair attempt. The units fit within the ship's lockers but must be purchased separately, at 0.0025% per unit, typically at the time of the annual maintenance. Extra units could be purchased but would require storing in cargo volume (how much space? imtu it's based on the bridge size, I think my current calculation is 10% of bridge volume is the ship's maintenance lockers).

A generous referee might allow a discount for purchasing the full routine maintenance package, I'd say 20% off, but perhaps only with the annual maintenance program purchase.

Naturally the units are specific to the class of ship and using units for another class would impose a severe penalty on the check. Such as in cases where PC's are scrounging parts from other ships.[/FONT]

 

[Nightshade]

Thanks Dan.

Looking on page 349, routine maintenance would be 0.0025% monthly, for a Scout ship MCr42.258 that works out to Cr 105,645 a month. That seems a little steep to operate a Scout/Courier. But of course you really only have to complete this 10 out of 12 months to get the discount.

Annual maintenance would be Cr 42,258 so I see where the goof is. It wouldn't make sense for an annual overhaul to cost less than the monthly maintenance. If we add just one more decimal point to the routing maintenance cost 0.00025 then we get a much more reasonable figure of Cr 10,564.

 

[elstreak72]

Looking on page 349, routine maintenance would be 0.0025% monthly, for a Scout ship MCr42.258 that works out to Cr 105,645 a month.

Actually. 0.0025% of MCr42.258 is Cr1,056.45:

0.0025% of x = 0.0025*x/100 = 0.000025*x

At Cr10,564/month, routine maintenance for a year would cost 5 or 6 times as much as the annual overhaul... it would be much cheaper to skip the monthly maintenance and just pay twice as much for the overhaul.

 

[Doyle Hunt]

Monthly maintenance costs 2.5% of the annual maintenance cost, per month, so 12 months' worth would cost 30% of the annual maintenance. Since it also saves 50% of the annual maintenance, it's a bargain.

On a side note, you'd only ever need 11 months of monthly maintenance anyway, because you would not need monthly maintenance the same month you do annual maintenance, so that's one of the months you get to skip.