#220: every berth past the first paid one costs 1.12x the one before it, on
top of the flat per-vessel charge. A linear bill makes the tenth hull no more
of a decision than the second; compounding weighs each addition against the
whole fleet behind it. Shallow on purpose - the thirteenth berth costs about
three and a half times the second, the twentieth about seven and a half.
Fleet Offices gain a menu naming the whole bill per minute, a line per paying
berth with its multiplier, and the arithmetic in words. It renders
fleet_upkeep_breakdown(), which is the calculation the charging loop itself
runs: a readout that summed independently could quote a bill the game does
not take, which is the thing worth preventing here. The test pins that what
the menu quotes for a berth is what that office is charged.
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#219: fleet capacity is a built, supplied thing rather than a researched
one. The eight fleet-size doctrines are gone; capacity is one berth free
plus one per Fleet Office standing. An office charges every 25s for the
vessel in its berth, priced off that vessel's own build cost so an expensive
hull is expensive to keep, and drawn from its own store the way a gas burner
draws gas. An office that cannot pay goes dark, its vessel is scuttled, and
the player is told through the same queue quest lines use - which reaches
them on a planet surface too.
An empty berth is idle rather than starved: an office is only failing while
there is something in it to fail, and holding it disabled would leave a
berth that could never be crewed and so could never be paid for again.
Ships have no hit points and a shield absorbs a hit wholesale, so the lost
vessel is scuttled rather than damaged - otherwise a shielded hull would
survive its own eviction.
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