Repair ship idea?

[atlantis2112]

I have yet to see one of these. Perhaps we could make some incentive to get one?

Maybe make it so that there is a special class of gun/turret that can deal "negative damage" to a target (not sure if this is possible) and repair the ship?

I'm just thinking how in Star Trek:Armada there were these nifty little repair ships that buzzed around and shot tractor beam-like things that healed ships.

Discuss?

[Sprolf]

I think the problem with this is when you repair something with full health, the health goes into the negative ranges and effectively destroys the ship.

If we had these weapons out there, we would have people destroying ships in two hits.

It would be brilliant if it could be implemented, but as far as I know, it can't due to the aforementioned reasons.

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[Cellulanus]

From what I understand such a turret would be plagued with many glitches.

One of the more serious ones would be it couldn't repair hull when the shield was up if I recall.

[ophidian]

Just have a big cargo spaced ship that can carry LOOOTS of Bats and Bots and give it to the other ship as a repairing "aid".

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[Grumblesaur]

Just have a big cargo spaced ship that can carry LOOOTS of Bats and Bots and give it to the other ship as a repairing "aid".

It already does. 4000 Batteries and 4000 Nanobots.

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[jenya]

make a bot/bat missile turret:
if you have been damaged, itll fix you. if you have full hull and full shields, itll just drop bots/bats, and you can tractor them back

[Cris]

the problem with the actual repair ship is that it requires to make a trade request accept and etc etc, precious time is wasted there so the idea of this repair beam would be cool, but maybe via server command the repair ship could send bots/bats to the damaged ship fo its use adn whatever excedent would be jettisoned, destroyed, etc... Not sure if such command can be done however, just an idea, I think it would work like the almighty /givecash.

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[reavengitair]

You don't need a trade request. Just fly right up to the ship you want to heal and jetison some bb.

I think this was brought up before... negative damage turrets...

[atlantis2112]

You don't need a trade request. Just fly right up to the ship you want to heal and jetison some bb.

We need Repair ships do not drop shields after jettisoning if that is the case.

Otherwise, unfortunate things happen. Shields go down, 300 bots are jettisoned, Repair ship takes a massive beating, enemy sucks up the bots with their tractor beams (Some, have lightning fast B fingers. I've seen, its impressive).

[Shagohad]

We need Repair ships do not drop shields after jettisoning if that is the case.

Otherwise, unfortunate things happen. Shields go down, 300 bots are jettisoned, Repair ship takes a massive beating, enemy sucks up the bots with their tractor beams (Some, have lightning fast B fingers. I've seen, its impressive).

I tried being a repair jockey at a battle or two. It gets into a mess as both the side you're intending to help and the enemy race for the new source of health....

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