Repair Priorities

[couslee]

I hate to disturb a topic that by all reading has settled before, but I must.

when you set your repair priorities, the repair function is suppose to do the following:
1> Checks ships for damaged priority components.
2> Tries to complete all repairs on that ship before rechecking the list.

Then perhaps someone can explain this. I have 3 ships in need of repair. Two have 2 damaged weapons each, one has 1 engine and 1 weapon damaged. The ship that has the engine damage is shown Last in the info box.

According to the above, the ship with engine damage should have been repaired fully first, then the other two repaired, with one of those still needing 1 component repaired. (5 repair planet based space yard only).

This however is not what happened. Both of the two ships that had two weapons damaged were repaired fully, and the one with engine/weapon damage only had the engine repaired.

So either the game repaired the engine first, then moved to the top of the list and started on weapons (meaning it does not try and repair all components once started on a specific ship), or it did repairs based on what ship was listed first and ignored the priorities list.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of weirdness? Or perhaps can offer some explaination to why it did that?

[Fyron]

Are you sure you have the items on the right side of the list in the repair priorities?

[couslee]

yup. I don't have anything listed on the left side. I have vehicle control, engines, shields, armor, then weapons, then the rest

[Fyron]

Not having access to se4 here... is there some setting to use or ignore repair priorities?

[Arkcon]

Hmmm... a quick and dirty test confirms that repair priorities are not followed. I attacked some ships with engine destroyers, shield destroyers and weapon destroyers. They attacked a fleet of ships:

Ship #1 - engines only destroyed,
Ship #2 - gutted, only other components remain
Ship #3 - just shields and weapons

Repair priorities left at default: Control, shields, engines, weapons.

They were repaired in numerical sequence, although #2 and #3 should have won out over #1, it was repaired first.

[Suicide Junkie]

Did you look at the details of which components were repaired first on the ships that were receiving repairs?

IE:
First damaged control components were repaired, then shields then engines with weapons Last.
Then it moves on to the control components of ship #2, and so on?