Maintance overhaul

[S-P]

Anyone know how the cost is calculated and how the amount of upgrades installed effects the overall cost? Also how long is it between overhauls?

[CommRLock78]

Anyone know how the cost is calculated and how the amount of upgrades installed effects the overall cost? Also how long is it between overhauls?

I'm not sure about the details of how things are calculated, but basically it has to do with how much damage you receive, particularly when you shields are spent, and of course, how long since your last overhaul.

[Cody]

I think it's 1% of the ship's total value (including kit), and the frequency is variable, depending on how much combat/number of jumps.

[CommRLock78]

I was just on the wiki poking around - it doesn't appear to have anything in the manual or FAQ about overhauls - perhaps there should be some details about how overhauls work since it seems to be a common inquiry.

[Cody]

 Maintenance - that covers the basics.

[CommRLock78]

 Maintenance - that covers the basics.

Ah geez - - I should have figured . That's what I get for not typing "maintenance" into the search form . Although, it does look like the article could be expanded .

[Eric Walch]

If you want to puzzle. The used formula in original code is:

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- (double) renovationCosts
{
OOCreditsQuantity shipValue = [UNIVERSE tradeInValueForCommanderDictionary:[self commanderDataDictionary]];
double costs = 0.005 * (100 - ship_trade_in_factor) * shipValue;
costs += 0.01 * shipValue * [self missingSubEntitiesAdjustment];
return cunningFee(costs, 0.05); // rounding
}

The value ship_trade_in_factor varies between 75 and 100. (read it as a percentage) It will never drop below 75 during combat.

A renovation is only offered when the ship_trade_in_factor drops below 85. And the resulting repair is calculated as:

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ship_trade_in_factor += 5 + techLevel;	// you get better value at high-tech repair bases

So, anyone that wants to update the wiki page with above in plain English.

EDIT: This was still missing in above puzzle:

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- (NSInteger) missingSubEntitiesAdjustment
{
	// each missing subentity depreciates the ship by 5%, up to a maximum of 35% depreciation.
	NSUInteger percent = 5 * ([self maxShipSubEntities] - [[[self shipSubEntityEnumerator] allObjects] count]);
	return (percent > 35 ? 35 : percent);
}

[S-P]

Many thanks for clearing that up for me guys.

[Eric Walch]

The calculation was always a bit vague, but now the value itself is exposed to the JS system, it is better that scripters know how Oolite itself deals with it.