Concept : Maintenance

Expert

During each update, nations must pay to maintain their units, ships and planes.

The cost to maintain a ship, plane, or land-unit is:

	.001 * cost of thing * ETUs/update

Note that this cost can be changed by the deity.

Also note that if you have purchased high-tech items, and your tech is not at least 85% of the item's tech, you are charged double to maintain the item.

Also note that engineering land units costs 3 times what normal units cost, after the tech is figured in.

If you can not afford to pay maintenance costs or you choose not to pay them (see info budget) then your unit will lose ETU/5 points of efficiency. Thus, if you were playing in a 60 ETU game, and you did not pay your maintenance costs for a 50% frigate, then the frigate would drop to 38% efficiency.

See also : Unit-types , Ship-types , Plane-types , Ships , LandUnits , Planes , Update