New player struggling

[tesco samoa]

Battle stations have a reduction in Maintance by 50%. (Then again it could just be the mod I am playing.)

So build them and use them.

A good stag is to build some space yard stations 500 kt size with the command units ( non computer core ) 1 ship yard and 2 point defences.

Then use these to build the larger space stations ( for defence away from planets or in conjunction with planet yards)

That way you can que up these yards and let them build away.