Howdy Rupert,

The details on what takes place while the ship is inport is, in my opinion, vague.

IIRC Timothy Collinson has mentioned that while he sailed on the library ship when they where inport during working hours some of the crew spent time doing maintenance, doing the library stuff, while others went out to purchase supplies and more stock. After working hours some of the crew stayed on the ship as security and did more maintenance. When there was something they needed help with the hired local help.

IIRC MT/TNE/T4 compute maintenance points that are modified by the ships computer and have the similar issues.

The maintenance system that I used in the USN looked at each system and broke them down into the man-hours needed working with the manufacturer. How exactly this was determined is beyond my knowledge.

Tom Rux

> On 10/16/2021 8:08 PM Rupert Boleyn - rupert.boleyn at gmail.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>
> On 17Oct2021 1522, Thomas RUX - tmr0195 at comcast.net (via tml list) wrote:
> > Hello Rupert,
> >
> > My understanding is that most of the texts do not state clearly one way or the other on how maintenance is done.
> >
> > Based on my background on maintaining ship's equipment the tasks are broken down into chunks that 1 or two bodies can perform.
> I'm sure they are, and I'm sure that a fair bit of crew time is spent on
> maintenance. However, there is no mention of having to spend the time on
> the ground in this, or of hiring shore teams to do this - it would be a
> significant expense and thus something that would be mentioned if it was
> the case, given that one of Traveller's focuses has always been the
> 'merchant campaign'. Also, it's noted that the crew generally gets time
> off on-planet once cargo and passenger off-loading and other basic
> chores are done. The amount of maintenance we're seeing from that
> formula would preclude this.
>
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