hmmmm how useful are repair bots anyway. Armour is cheaper and lighter and four times more effective at taking damage so to compensate, in theory, a repair bot would have to repair 4 things, this would take approximatly 40 turns!
On mass they are effective but also expensive and heavy, currently i cant decide if i should load the rear of my ships with 4 repair or 4 stealth, or a combination of both. At this level in the game stealth is less useful as I have sturdy rear armour and there are loads more baddies to spot me, but are the repair bots worth my while?
So any opinions? Are repair bots worth the cash and the weight?
Also, can repair bots repair civilians?
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by Joshua » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:43 pm
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by Sean OConnor » Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:02 am
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by Old Man Johnson » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:50 am
Wait, so there's no advantage to having more than 4 repair bots?
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by OrigamiGuy » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:16 am
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by Sean OConnor » Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:12 am
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by BoxZone_Author » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:31 pm
Sean,
If only four repair bots do anything why not impose this restriction on your designs (as you do for missile launchers).
I supposed there is a slight advantage to having more than four in case you get some of them destroyed
If only four repair bots do anything why not impose this restriction on your designs (as you do for missile launchers).
I supposed there is a slight advantage to having more than four in case you get some of them destroyed
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by Admiral Slim » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:44 am
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by BoxZone_Author » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:15 pm
Sean,
I am highly confident that the '1 in 10 chance' of a repair bot repairing something does not apply to shields, only to 'components'. Are you willing to share the rule for repairing shields?
Also I have a suspicion that shield repair (even though much less frequent than 10% of the time per bot) may have a problem in that once all the right hand side shields are repaired, no other shields are repaired! Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
I am highly confident that the '1 in 10 chance' of a repair bot repairing something does not apply to shields, only to 'components'. Are you willing to share the rule for repairing shields?
Also I have a suspicion that shield repair (even though much less frequent than 10% of the time per bot) may have a problem in that once all the right hand side shields are repaired, no other shields are repaired! Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
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by Fusion_power » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:59 am
Shields are not repaired at all. Watch carefully and you will see that components inside the shields are repaired. The shields never are. Sean was afraid a ship that could repair its shields would be too invulnerable. His fix was to limit the repair bot to only inner components.
You should have seen a bug in one of the early betas. The repair bots would repair damaged engines but the ship would never speed back up. It was a minor bug where a variable had to be incremented to correspond to the number of engines in the ship. Of course, the current version ironed out almost all of the glitches!
What I sometimes wish the repair bots could do is generate more missiles!
What about it Sean, you game to consider that one?
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You should have seen a bug in one of the early betas. The repair bots would repair damaged engines but the ship would never speed back up. It was a minor bug where a variable had to be incremented to correspond to the number of engines in the ship. Of course, the current version ironed out almost all of the glitches!
What I sometimes wish the repair bots could do is generate more missiles!
What about it Sean, you game to consider that one?
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by BoxZone_Author » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:15 am
I'm sure I've seen the repair bot repair shields (only occasionally though). I'll watch very closely and report...
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