                            Concept : Maintenance

NAME
   Maintenance - The cost to maintain ships, planes, and land units.

Level: Expert

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

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

           .001 * cost of thing * ETUs/update

The cost to maintain a plane is:

           .001 * cost of thing * ETUs/update + 5 * mil_cost * crew

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

