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I believe hull repair should be added to the patch list. It makes no sense to go into battle with your hull at 18%.

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I believe hull repair should be added to the patch list. It makes no sense to go into battle with your hull at 18%.

<chuckle>

Ever thought of the TRANSFER command?

Let someone else have it while you take a ship in better shape [:'(]

You should be able to send a ship into a dock, X ammount of hull points per day. A Destroyer should take over a week to repair from say 10% armour left.

Tex

You should be able to send a ship into a dock, X ammount of hull points per day. A Destroyer should take over a week to repair from say 10% armour left.

It would be nice to be able to send ships out of the campaign for repairs, but really you need to be grand admiral to have that level of control.

Is there a withdrawl function for the campaign engine? I noticed a reserve element.

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

I believe hull repair should be added to the patch list. It makes no sense to go into battle with your hull at 18%.

<chuckle>

Ever thought of the TRANSFER command?

Let someone else have it while you take a ship in better shape [:'(]

Only problem with that is the damaged ships can't provide any sustained support. You can't take out 2 DDs with one good one no matter how good you are!

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A week? To repair a destroyer!

Hahaha! [;)]

Realistically it would take at least months to patch up a severely damaged vessel. It would be interesting if there were a hardcore mode wherein subsystem damage was persistent....

ORIGINAL: whammo11224

Only problem with that is the damaged ships can't provide any sustained support. You can't take out 2 DDs with one good one no matter how good you are!

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I beg to differ on that point. I have, do, and can take out odds 3:1. All Spectres.

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

It would be nice to be able to send ships out of the campaign for repairs, but really you need to be grand admiral to have that level of control.

What you say? Have you got grand admiral already and done that?

Re; Pheagey. Only if you screw up their deployment so they cant salvo torps on you. [:'(]

*EDIT*

Yep I just ran through it a bunch of times and the only way I can conceive of winning that one in a Spectre is to timeskip yourself under them so you get a clear shot at the fusion generators. You simply take too much punishment closimg from 50 KMs. It wrecks all your offensive weaponry, even if you survive it. I even tried going in backwards-ffacing, but I lost the fusion plant for my troubles.

I think I could've taken them with the CA Vendetta if the damned missiles didnt work for some reason. CA Devestator worked fine. Didn't try Courageous or a Marakan destroyer (might be a good idea; they have better PD.)

ORIGINAL: TexMurphy

You should be able to send a ship into a dock, X ammount of hull points per day. A Destroyer should take over a week to repair from say 10% armour left.

Tex

could someone explain how this is done?

I suppose that if technology never stagnanted far enough, the ship could be dry-docked in a nanotechnological paste that systematically replaces the components and hull as dictated by a mainframe system with a schematic of what the ship is supposed to look like. All-in-all, with such a system ships could be brought back from the brink as long as the computer system could make heads or tails of what was left.

could someone explain how this is done?

It can't be done ... we are talking about *adding* it as a feature that would be nice [;)]

ahh right! damnit ^^ would be a nice feature indeed

for now I'll just have to survive by editing the save game file [8|]

for now I'll just have to survive by editing the save game file

[:D]

ship_kill = -1000

add a few spares eh? [X(]

lol is that possible? ^^

nahw im no cheater.. I just think its rather lame that u cant repair a ship.. so I take faith into my own hands when my ships hp drops below 30% :p

I think you need to change your philosophy and don't get hung up on a particular ship. Think in terms of your fleet, not just one particular ship. I've completed all but one of the campains so far and have mannaged in all cases to keep "most" of my fleet intact. I just take the badly wounded and fall them back to carrier to help in defense.

By the way, hull repair was added in 4.0.2. All ships with less than 50% hull remaining receive emergency hull repairs between each mission, to the tune of about 10% increase in hull strength each time. Basically, little guys in space suits go out and spot-weld spare hull plating over the larger leaks in each boat.

Naturally, just to be fair, enemy ships get the same benefits.

ORIGINAL: John DiCamillo

By the way, hull repair was added in 4.0.2. All ships with less than 50% hull remaining receive emergency hull repairs between each mission, to the tune of about 10% increase in hull strength each time. Basically, little guys in space suits go out and spot-weld spare hull plating over the larger leaks in each boat.

Naturally, just to be fair, enemy ships get the same benefits.

i finish about 2 mission with the DD shadow, but never have the option to repair my hull...
I did two escort mission with my DD and no option to repair.. maybe my hull was at 50..
and i got the patch 4.02 download from starshatter web site

Hull repair is automatic.