Repair Ships

[Ikarus_Hagen]

Well, yesterday I dusted off my repair ship and asked me, why are there not more of them? After some minutes I realized: they are boring as f... f... fidget spinners! Very boring. So I thought about them and kind of found a way for myself to make them more interesting.

I have suggestions for three new ships and two new upgrades:

1. Small Repair Ship:
This could be the current ship, no changes except for 4 gb turrets instead of 3 transport turrets (they are useless).

2. Medium Repair Ship:
This one have 8 gb turrets, twice the hull strength and core power, balanced cargo/bots/bats/remaining stuff. Also twice as big as the small one. The nanotool slot stay at one.

3. Large Repair Ship:
This could have something like 6 or 8 cruiser turrets, two nanotool slots, 3x the core of the Small one, 3x the hull of the small one and the size of the Donau or whatever. The rest is balanced.

The two Nanotool upgrades could be:

1. Shield Booster:
This fires one projectile with the speed of a (??) Solaris projectile, consuming a lot of energy (too much for the Small) and having a long reload time. This could have the power to fully regenerate a cruiser shield. The balance has to be worked out.

2. Core Booster:
Same as the Shield booster, but for the core. Only one difference, it only can work when the shield is down.

And now I want to know what you think about it. Stay nice to each other

//with my great skills I posted this into the general discussion thread. Can someone move it to the mod discussion, please?

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For a better Sirius!

[Epo]

I'd love to have more variety in this, yeah. Also cruisers being capable of mounting healing guns instead of damaging ones <3
Tactical support Vidar, Corvo or LSC / Obstinate - it's just <3

[Goliath]

So you basically want to make repair ships like gunboats and crusiers with a nanotool arm? Thats something new.

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[Ikarus_Hagen]

So you basically want to make repair ships like gunboats and crusiers with a nanotool arm? Thats something new.

They just need some protection, the Transport turrets are useless.

[casualty]

Allow nanotool upgrade as auxiliary weapon to freighters. Repair ships don't need protection, they must be protected by those ships they repair.

[Docent]

Allow nanotool upgrade as auxiliary weapon to freighters. Repair ships don't need protection, they must be protected by those ships they repair.

i like the idea. we don't need to make the repair ship more appealing, just make the repair feature more applicable.

although i must note that it depends on you how much fun you will have with your vessel. i myself have flown a repair ship for quite some time and did some most fun RP with that. sure, you won't get any direct pews, or at least not likely survive any, but this ain't what this ship is about.

[Ikarus_Hagen]

bump. I don't want to let the discussion/ideas die that young

[Techpriest]

Allow nanotool upgrade as auxiliary weapon to freighters. Repair ships don't need protection, they must be protected by those ships they repair.

i like the idea. we don't need to make the repair ship more appealing, just make the repair feature more applicable.

although i must note that it depends on you how much fun you will have with your vessel. i myself have flown a repair ship for quite some time and did some most fun RP with that. sure, you won't get any direct pews, or at least not likely survive any, but this ain't what this ship is about.

+1 Agreed. The Repair Tool has so much RP potential, but yet no one wants to drive a Repair Ship casually because of how dangerous it is to actually fly out there.

[Ikarus_Hagen]

That's why I think a buff/implementation of the types above will save the Rep. Ship. Allowing transports or freighters to mount those guns will kill a vanilla ship, and that is not wanted, since this is the only type of it. That's why I disagree with this idea.

[diamond1]

So you basically want to make repair ships like gunboats and crusiers with a nanotool arm? Thats something new.

They just need some protection, the Transport turrets are useless.

That's the point. They're not meant to fight back.