2 questions

[Elowan]

1. How do you turn Cloaking on when installed on a ship or base?
2. Can you have more than 1 Repair Bay on a ship or base?
3. If you can have more than one - do the effects stack or does it repair more than one ship/base at a time?
4. Typically - a repair ship has to fleet with a ship. However - since we can't fleet bases with ships in 1.78 - can bases with repair bays still repair ships?
   

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Elowan:

1. How do you turn Cloaking on when installed on a ship or base?

1. When you have the ship/base selected, click on the cloak button (looks like a circle around a ship)
2. Can you have more than 1 Repair Bay on a ship or base?
   Yes. As long as there's room, of course.
3. If you can have more than one - do the effects stack or does it repair more than one ship/base at a time?
   The effects stack; all repair bays and shipyards in a sector stack together when the game determines how many components are repaired in a given turn; and the repairs can be scattered among multiple ships. I think that repairs are used to completely repair one ship before applying toward the next ship, though. So repairs aren't completely parallel.
4. Typically - a repair ship has to fleet with a ship. However - since we can't fleet bases with ships in 1.78 - can bases with repair bays still repair ships?
   That's just a convenience; simply being in the same sector will allow repairs to commence. That's why a planetary shipyard can perform repairs on ships in orbit, even though you certainly can't fleet with the planet.
   

[capnq]

How do you turn Cloaking on when installed on a ship or base?

Anything that can cloak will have the Cloak icon lit when that vehicle is selected. (It's the ship with a circle around it, between Scrap Facility and Use Component.) A cloaked vehicle will have the Uncloak icon lit (ship without circle, just below Cloak). IIRC, both commands are hotkey Z.

Can you have more than 1 Repair Bay on a ship or base?

Yes.

If you can have more than one - do the effects stack or does it repair more than one ship/base at a time?

Both Repair Bays and Construction Yards stack; more than one ship can be repaired if there's enough total capacity to finish one ship's repairs. [ Edit ] Oh, and racial/cultural modifiers to Repair apply to the combined total, not the individual components/facilities.

Typically - a repair ship has to fleet with a ship. However - since we can't fleet bases with ships in 1.78 - can bases with repair bays still repair ships?

This is incorrect; the repair ship/base/shipyard doesn't have to be in a fleet, just in the same sector.

[ September 17, 2002, 19:59: Message edited by: capnq ]

[Elowan]

Originally posted by capnq:
Both Repair Bays and Construction Yards stack; more than one ship can be repaired if there's enough total capacity to finish one ship's repairs.

Isn't it curious that a shipyard (construction) component will stack (more than 1 on a ship) - but you can only have one SY/planet?

[Suicide Junkie]

No, no. The Repair ability of the spaceyards will stack.

You are only allowed one spaceyard per ship, but you can have spaceyard + repair bay.

[rdouglass]

IIRC you can't have more than 1 SY per ship, but you can have more than one RB..... REpair stacks, not builds.

EDIT> I'm typing too slow SJ....

[ September 17, 2002, 20:23: Message edited by: rdouglass ]