Mod idea: Repair pods

[Wardad]

Originally posted by Puke:
the problem with using drones, is that once launched, they stay launched and eventually run out of juice and die. so they would be disposeable repair pods...

It could be an interesting way to resupply ships.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
Can you send drones to your own ships? I don't think the Attack button works like that, and that could be a problem for repair drones.

Good point. Drones would nto work at all. Well, not very well anyway. You could move your pod ferry to the site of the damaged ships and launch the repair drones I suppose.

Geoschmo

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Wasn't that being fixed in the next patch? To where you can move drones without the attack order? I may be mistaken, in fact I probably am.

[dogscoff]

Wasn't that being fixed in the next patch? To where you can move drones without the attack order? I may be mistaken, in fact I probably am.

Yes. And no. The next patch will allow drones to "attack" warp points and warp through them. You still can't give a drone "move to" orders.

[Phoenix-D]

Hmm. Drones only have an attack order. Can you order them to attack your own ships? Or an ally's?

See, if you do that with ships what happens is the ship follows the target. I don't think it works on your own ships, but I don't think I've tested it either.

Phoenix-D

[geoschmo]

Attack ally's, yes. They will tag along whereever the target ship goes, lagging a move behind them each time. Attack your own, no. Unless drones are different then ships. That is the case for ships I know.

Geo

[F Te antKe]

Let's say I want to create Repair Satellites.
Which method is better?
Should I create a small Repair Bay component
That can only be used in a Satellite
or
Create a Satellite with the Repair ability?

[Fyron]

It all depends on what affect you want to create. Neither is necessarily "better" than the other.