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Ship Maintenance Arrays and Fleet Hangars
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Busker van Kelsen
Honest Guvnor Industries
#1 - 2015-10-29 19:58:32 UTC
What's the difference between them?!
Jack Hayson
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2015-10-29 20:32:43 UTC
Fleet hangar is for items, ship maintenance array is for assembled ships and allows refitting.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#3 - 2015-10-29 21:16:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
A few different things are being confused here.


Fleet Hangars (used to be called "corp hangars") are a type of specialized ship bay that the pilot can allow other pilots in the fleet or the same corp, access to. Like all regular cargoholds, they cannot hold assembled ships, but can hold packaged ships.

Ship Maintenance Bays are a type of specialized ship bay that can ONLY store assembled ships. They also provide a Fitting Service, allowing other pilots in the fleet or the same corp to refit their ships in space (like a Mobile Depot).

Ship Maintenance Arrays are a player-owned starbase (POS) structure. They are similar to Ship Maintenance Bays.

Only cargoholds can be expanded by fitting modules or rigs, not ship bays nor fleet hangars.


FYI: Deep Space Transports (DST) are the smallest ships with a Fleet Hangar, and it is quite large. DST have a small cargohold instead. The ORE Freighter, Bowhead, similarly has a quite large Ship Maintenance Bay but a small cargohold.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2015-10-29 22:38:45 UTC
Yeah fleet hangers are for stuff and maintenance bays hold fitted ships.

The only time you are likely to come across a maintenance bay if you are a new player is if you have a friend with an Orca.
Busker van Kelsen
Honest Guvnor Industries
#5 - 2015-11-03 18:32:11 UTC
Thanks, all.

My main confusion was caused by wondering why the Nestor has a SMB that's only 5k m3 - unless I'm missing something, that's only big enough for an assembled shuttle so I was thought modules could be put in there as well!
xttz
GSF Logistics and Posting Reserves
Goonswarm Federation
#6 - 2015-11-03 20:32:23 UTC
Busker van Kelsen wrote:
Thanks, all.

My main confusion was caused by wondering why the Nestor has a SMB that's only 5k m3 - unless I'm missing something, that's only big enough for an assembled shuttle so I was thought modules could be put in there as well!


The main purpose is to allow nearby ships to refit modules in space. The shuttle is just a plan B in case you **** up.