Newbie Repair question

[Hydraa]

Is the ship or repair base cloaked? This may cause repairs to not take place. I don't know if this is the case but I have noticed that cloaked ships do not show in the refit list nor will they recieve training.

[Sinapus]

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Originally posted by Vesuvius:
Thanks guys.
This is a ship i refit that needs about 10 components fixed now. How long should that generally take?

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How many and what kind of repair bays/space yards do you have on the repair base? You can fit two repair IIIs onto a space station hull (three if you don't want to put any defenses on the station) which can repair 16 (24 if you neglected defenses) components per turn. Plus whatever the repair rate of the space yard you use to refit and any other space yards in that sector.

I usually have a location close to the front with one or two repair bases with as many repair 3's I can squeeze in. It makes ship repair and refits go a lot faster.

(Want a challenge? Lower your repair rate in the racial stats to 50%. It *will* affect things.)



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[Vesuvius]

It was just a 1st shot station with 3 or 4 repair - I's in it.

The only thing I can think of is the ship was already there before the station was built and it won't pick up on it unless a ship moves into the planet square.

I'm done playing for now but will test that out later.

Thanks guys.

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- Ves

[Hydraa]

It was mentioned to perhpas mothball the ship that was to be repaired. Did you check to see if that your repair base was mothballed. It probably won't work if it is.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Vesuvius, is your damaged ship a captured one from another race ? They seem not to be repair-able...

[Suicide Junkie]

You do need to watch out for captured ships. You can only repair things that you can build in the first place!

[Dracus]

He is right, You can not repair something from a higher tech level then you have or from a type of tech you can never develop.
tech. You capture a ship That has Crystal tech and you can not gain that tech then You can not repair the damaged area's of that ship that use that tech. You can repair the engines as long as they are not from a level you have not researched yet. When i capture ships that will not gain my anything by breaking them down. I add them to my fleets and use them until they get damaged. I will then either trade them to my allies for other ships or give them off as a gift to an allie.
That way I don't continue paying for a damaged ship. (ps. I rarely ever scrap a ship for any reason.)