what does repair aptitude _do_?

[dumbluck]

Unless I'm mistaken, you would have to increase it by 13% just to have any effect at all on your repair rate, and that's only AFTER you research repair to the max. (Top repair module = 8 components per turn.) That's a lot of racial points!!! Points that would probably be better spent somewhere else. Hell, you could lower it by 12% with no ill effects, right? Or am I totally off base here?

[Slaughtermeyer]

Although I haven't tested it, maybe it applies to the total repair capacity of a sector, which would mean that if you had many repair ships with a total repair capacity of 100 or more in the same sector then even a 1% change would have an effect.

[Suicide Junkie]

Plus, it rounds down, so taking 99% would mean one less repair per sector (2 if you have over 100 total repair)

[rdouglass]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Slaughtermeyer:
...if you had many repair ships with a total repair capacity of 100 or more in the same sector ...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

DO you guys put that many in your fleets or are we talking major construction yards here (doing lots of retrofits)?? How big are your fleets?

'Cause I know for me, the highest component repair capacity I've ever outfitted a fleet for was about 45-50. My fleet size usually max'es out at about 25 ships (including support ships). Maybe either my fleets are too small or I'm missing a major strat here. Don't get me wrong - I do see the value in putting points into repair attrib's (I generally put mine at 110%), just "inquiring minds want to know"....