Question about captured ships with special tech

Enigma · #1 April 12th, 2005, 07:00 PM

If I capture a ship with Religious Talisman. Will the Religioius Talisman work for that ship? I know that if it gets damaged I can not repair it, but until it is damaged will it work for the ship, giving it 100% hit probability.

Thanks

dogscoff · #2 April 12th, 2005, 07:05 PM

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Enigma said:
If I capture a ship with Religious Talisman. Will the Religioius Talisman work for that ship? I know that if it gets damaged I can not repair it, but until it is damaged will it work for the ship, giving it 100% hit probability.

Thanks

Yes, it will continue to work. Same for any racial tech, or any tech that you could research but haven't yet, or any ruins techs. Facilities too.

And just to confirm for anyone else reading, you are correct in that you cannot repair it.

Grandpa Kim · #3 April 12th, 2005, 11:37 PM

Nor can you analyze it.

Enigma · #4 April 13th, 2005, 09:50 AM

Thanks alot.

Parasite · #5 April 13th, 2005, 05:41 PM

You also can't retrofit any components on the ship and keep the tailsman or whatever. It is stuck at the level it was captured at. You can not, for example, add a Solar Sail if it did not have one initially.

If you have the tech, you can repair the items damaged. If you are still researching to that level they can be repaired when you get the tech.

That does bring up a question. If you capture a ship with organic armour, will it repair itself if it is in another battle somewhere even if you don't have the tech to fix it up?

dogscoff · #6 April 13th, 2005, 05:47 PM

I'm pretty sure organic armour will ix itself up between battles no matter who owns it. Only in later Gold patches though, not in classic or unpatched Gold. You'd have to check the history.txt on malfador's site to see exactly when this behaviour was fixed.

As long as it's not being shot at, it can repair itself *during* battle as well, in all versins of SE4.

Parasite · #7 April 13th, 2005, 07:19 PM

If you upgrade or have a ships armor totally [destroyed] it will not fix itself while being repaired, you must have the repair capacity and time to fix it all. A battle, like against a colony ship, will cause partially repaired Organic armor to fully repair. i have only tested this with me having Organic racial tech though.

Thanks Dog