Maintaining start conditions in prod

[Michael Pokraka]

Simple question:
Are start conditions supposed to be maintained in a production
environment?
 
I seem to have it remembered that one can change start conditions in
production - i.e. adjusting limits etc is not necessarily a
transportable change.
 
At present I'm working on a 4.6c system and the way it is configured is
that they can be changed in QA (but other config/development is blocked), but
can't be changed in Prod... so now I'm confused.
 
Cheers
Mike