Repair Priorities

[Purna]

I want "repair bays" to be my highest repair priority, so that they can be used the next turn. According to Components.txt, these are "Construction" Category, so I put construction first on my repair priorities. However, my shipyard still seems to insist on fixing the ships with busted up engines first. What am I doing wrong?

[Fyron]

Are the construction components on the right side of the window? If anything is on the left, I think it gets repaired Last. And the top item is repaired first, and it moves down the list.

[Ed Kolis]

So it does use the component Groups from Components.txt? So if I want to change the Groups then I ought to change RepairPriorities.txt? (If that's so, where are Religious components on the list?)

[Purna]

I don't know. Maybe it doesn't use those component Groups. That could explain why my repair bays are not getting priority.

[Fyron]

No, I've rearranged them and seen Repair Bays be repaired first. Is Construction at the very top of the list?

[Purna]

Yup,

Construction
Vehicle Control
Engines
...

Weapons are way down the list, and it fixed broken weapons before my repair bays! Oh, well...it's finally fixed everything.

[Fyron]

Well... I don't know what to tell you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I have moved Construction to the top of the list (well, 2nd, after Stellar Manipulation), and it repairs the repair bays before anything else.

[Grandpa Kim]

I'm finding its repairing ships one at a time (PBW 1.49). Using the repair priorities on each ship, yes, but it completes a ship before moving on to the next. I have a repair ship that has not yet been touched but older ships are ready to roll. Like Purna, construction is at the top of the list.

Actually it would be a nice feature if you could choose to repair ship by ship, (by design date or reverse design date), or by component type.

Kim

[Purna]

Ah, yes...that seems to be the ticket. I don't know how it decides whether to repair ship A or ship B first, but it doesn't seem to look at repair priorities. It only applies the priorities to the components on a particular ship, once that ship is chosen. (This is 1.78, BTW.)

[Krsqk]

"If that's so, where are Religious components on the list?"

They get added to the list when you research a Religious component. Similarly, if you remove a component from the list and have not yet researched it (i.e., Armor), it disappears until you research it.