Retrofit Problems

[Randallw]

I can see you're new so maybe you're not playing on PBW, but have you taken over another game. Perhaps the player removed all his repair skills. I tried this out once for a race that built alot but never repaired anything. Also you said you just defeated an enemy, are the ships in question yours by reason of the enemy surreendering them to you. If they have unique tech you don't know you can't upgrade them. On second thoughts forget that one, if you don't know the tech you can't be upgrading it.

[Slick]

Ok, 2nd question: Did the maker of your empire lower your Repair Aptitude when he/she created the empire? This can be checked by looking at your empire by clicking the alien head icon. You won't be able to see the exact percentage, but "pathetic" would be an indicator. This could have been lowered to gain empire points ( a common tactic) by down to 50% which would cut your repairs in half. You can see an exact number by saving the empire, then starting a new game and loading the empire as an "existing" empire to see the exact configuration.

edit: whoops Randallw already hinted at this, sorry.

edit2: are you sure that no repairs are occurring per turn at all? or could you be seeing a number less than expected? If there are no repairs happening at all, I'm not sure what's going on.

edit3: just to rule out another obvious one, you must have the ships in the same sector (same square on the system map) as the spaceyard/repair component(s).

[Alneyan]

It is a single player game, so not Empire take over, I think; if it *is* the case though, go to the Options menu, and save up your Empire, then edit it in a new game. That would allow you to check all the Empire values and your happiness type: if the Empire you've just taken over isn't Peaceful, you want to know it *right now*. Trust me on that one.

Incidentally, you cannot repair components if you lack the technology to do so, but I doubt it is the problem here, since it was you who made the retrofits in the first place.