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I'm using the 1.6 release version. The Pragmatic Ideology Trait Vigilant IV gives the player 3 FREE ships in each system. But the ships given are not free. please see the screenshots. each system that has 3 ships in it I am being charge 218 maintenance for every turn. I figured this out only after my empire went bankrupt:
They are free in the sense you don't construct them, not that they don't have a maintenance cost.
I thought that vigilant trait would give free ships + they would also come with no maintenance cost. It was a big surprise that they have maintenance cost, it almost cost me one campaign game. I just immediately grabbed all the costly escort ships and hurled them all at the nearest meatgrinder target to get rid of all of them immediately and gain territory at drengin's expense.
It needs to be relabeled you gain 3 escort ships for each controlled planets, starbases etc. Then I will understand that maintenance for them isn't free. Cuz people will read the word "Free" and assume no maintenance cost.
The definition:
this bugs me too. i now avoid that pick completely unless i am swimming in $
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