DezNutz wrote:Unless or until ship build costs are paid (in part) for by the nation (directly), repair costs should come at the expense of the owner.
Disapprove.
I think you misread what this suggestion was Dez, it seems to me it wants it to be that when you repair your ship, a portion of the gold you spend repairing it goes to the port you repaired it at-as payment to workers at the port. You are paying out of your own pocket still, this just changes where that gold ends up. Instead of a void, it goes to a nation. Or at least part of it does.
So if for example someone suffered a nasty raid, and got some serious damage to their ships, and repaired it all for 100K gold, then the port they repaired at gets that gold, and it goes to the nation.
I think this makes some sense, as you are spending gold for workers to repair damage, so that gold should go to the port and nation.