mothballing ships?

[gwichman]

what exactly does mothballing a ship do? Could it be used to protect a ship from being mutinied? right now i'm losing a ship a turn to mutiny.. i need to scrap all my warpships so they aren't used against me. i'm wondering if i can mothball them instead? or can they sitll be mutinied?

[Baron Munchausen]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by gwichman:
what exactly does mothballing a ship do? Could it be used to protect a ship from being mutinied? right now i'm losing a ship a turn to mutiny.. i need to scrap all my warpships so they aren't used against me. i'm wondering if i can mothball them instead? or can they sitll be mutinied?<hr></blockquote>

Well, it will stop mutiny, but it will also stop you from moving or otherwise using the ship. Mothballing means you park it and shut it down, sending the crew away. No crew, no mutiny. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif But you lose all experience for the ship. When you re-activate it you'll have a 'novice' ship again. A rather high price to pay if your enemy has trained ships when you bring it out to fight again. And while it is mothballed it's just sitting there. If an enemy ship attacks the location where it's sitting it cannot defend itself.

[ 12 December 2001: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]</p>

[MegaTrain]

As discussed in the other thread about mutinies, your best bet for that is counter-intelligence.

The most common use for mothballing is to stop the payment of maintenance. If you have a large fleet just sitting around and waiting for a war to be declared, they use an incredible amount of resources in maintenance.
It'll cost you a tiny bit to mothball them, and a little bit more to unmothball them, but they don't cost you a thing in between the two.

[CW]

it certainly costs you some cash to unmothball, but are you sure it costs you to mothball too? I never knew that.

[Aristoi]

I believe that mothballing is free. It would be awful hard to use in a financial pinch if it cost money.

Of course, un-mothballing costs.

[Growltigga]

just checked, mothballing costs you diddly, as Aristoi says, unmothballing costs and then some