On Monday, August 24, 2020, 05:18:45 PM MST, xxxxxx@gmail.com <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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And I agree with you re segregating port/yard facilities.
Ports should strictly be the processing and movement of people and goods. Yards should be a different beast.
I also think yards maybe ought to have a maximum tonnage limit as well as a tech level limit for repairs and construction.
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In CT there was a rule that annual maint could only be performed in a shipyard that was the same or higher TL than the ship.
ISTR but can't give a citation, that shipyards were restricted by there system's TL.
The annual maint issue came up on this list way back in the '90's when someone pointed out that the detachment of 'Tigress' class BB's (TL15) that enforce the RED ZONE imposed on the two Droyne systems in the Five Sisters subsector of the 'Marches, would have to travel way over to Glisten in order to get their annual maint.
It was suggested by someone that if a IN naval base was coincident with a shipyard then it should be capable of annual maint on ships of any TL.
The situation has never come up in my experience though.
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