Military vs Civilian Upkeep

[Qwestyngbeast]

I am curious to know specifically which units are considered civilian. My question relates to the special research which can eliminate upkeep for non-military units. I would assume that colony ships and transport ships would be considered non-military. Are there any other units whose upkeep would be negated by this special research? In particular, I wonder about the space station units such as the outpost and database.

Please forgive my English. My education did not include German.

[Anonymissimus]

In addition to colony ships and transporters, only the probes given to Terraneans at the start. I don't know what you mean by database, but no space stations of any kind are considered civilian.

[blotunga]

In addition to colony ships and transporters, only the probes given to Terraneans at the start. I don't know what you mean by database, but no space stations of any kind are considered civilian.

The Database is a new feature added by me into the Java version . And yes this is correct. Btw. there is an ancient bug that I've recently discovered, that special research isn't correctly applied to existing ships. It's fixed now on my side.

[Anonymissimus]

That's not a bug. The zero upkeep is only applied to newly built ships, so you have to take care to consume the existing ships first.
Perhaps it was a bug originally, but nobody else other than me had ever complained about it, so it became a feature.

[blotunga]

That's not a bug. The zero upkeep is only applied to newly built ships, so you have to take care to consume the existing ships first.
Perhaps it was a bug originally, but nobody else other than me had ever complained about it, so it became a feature.

It's not just about upkeep, no other special research is applied to already existing ships. I don't think that's ok. So I've changed it

Btw, troop upkeep is never subtracted, but I won't fix this even on my side because it might imbalance things.

[Qwestyngbeast]

Thanks for the answers guys. "Database" was intended to be "starbase". I guess it was changed by autocorrect and I failed to notice.

By the way, I agree that the special research result which eliminates upkeep should be applied to existing ships as well as newly built ships.