Hello Chris, CIG has said in the past that ships will require maintenance due to deterioration. Does that mean that the ships in my hangar will degrade due to time even if they are not being flown, or does this only happen if they are actively being used? Also, does this phenomenon apply to handheld weapons, clothes, space helmets, shipping containers, decorative hangar objects, etc?asked by AragornBH

So, yes ships will require maintenance. We're going to try and have them the same way they are in the real world. That you have to maintain them, you have to sort of keep them in good working order. But that will be mostly due to operational. So if you keep them in your hangar where other than the fact that you may keep something in your hangar for a couple of years and now it's an outdated model. We're not really going to have it deteriorate there. But if you take it out on missions, it's flying, stuff is getting inside combat, then it will have some level of sort of deterioration. We've got a whole sort of blend layer setup for wear and tear. So over time you'll start to see more wear and tear and then you can bring it into a repair shop or so on and pay them some credits and they will sort of buff it back out to new. Maybe not 100% new but you know fairly close to it. And that will also apply to using hand weapons. Hand weapons, clothes, you as a character, everything will sort of age with use.