[Sesquipedalian]

Personally, I'm inclined to think that if this were hard-wired, it would be well received.   The engine code's logic should run like this: "Is the fighterbay's subsystem strength set to something besides zero in the table?  Yes, so we'll display a hitpoint percentage for it on the hud, or no, so we won't."  

You can be pretty sure that if someone writes the table entry in such a way that the fighterbay has hitpoints in the first place, they will want a damage percentage to be displayed for it.

[Goober5000]

Hmm.  That makes a lot of sense.

Maybe I'll do that.  Does anyone else have any objections?

[Goober5000]

It's done, barring any objections.  Fighterbay damage will now display unless fighterbay subsystems have been assigned a max damage of 0 in ships.tbl.