Repair Priorities

Fyron · #1 February 1st, 2003, 11:32 PM

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

couslee · #2 February 1st, 2003, 11:45 PM

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

Fyron · #3 February 1st, 2003, 11:57 PM

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

Arkcon · #4 February 2nd, 2003, 01:25 AM

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 · #5 February 2nd, 2003, 01:44 AM

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?

couslee · #6 February 2nd, 2003, 01:46 AM

Another way to set up a test, is make a design with numerous obsolete components, then copy the design and replace each different component on a seperate design. kinda like retro-series tactics.

Then retro fit each ship in the order shown in the info window. This is kinda what I had done when i noticed this. The CSM ships had ion2 engines and CSM1 missles. the PDC ship had 5 ion3 engines and no other weapons. I didn't want to upgrade the engines, just the missles. And the PDC ship had a DUC added, and one ion3 engine. I had to remove a couple of PDCs to make it fit. The end result was 2 damaged components on each one.

couslee · #7 February 2nd, 2003, 01:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 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?

I love cross Posts. lol listed in the order they were shown in the info window:
ship 1> Two CSM1 components upgraded to CSM2, no other upgrades
ship 2> exactly the same as ship one
ship 3> replaced two PDCs with one ion3 engine and one DUC.

post repair:
ship one and ship two fully repaired, ship three engine repaired and DUC still damaged.

Edit in:
this is with patch 1.84 installed.

[ February 01, 2003, 23:56: Message edited by: couslee ]