Newbie Repair question

Vesuvius · #1 May 11th, 2001, 11:08 PM

It was just a 1st shot station with 3 or 4 repair - I's in it.

The only thing I can think of is the ship was already there before the station was built and it won't pick up on it unless a ship moves into the planet square.

I'm done playing for now but will test that out later.

Thanks guys.

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- Ves

Hydraa · #2 May 11th, 2001, 11:47 PM

It was mentioned to perhpas mothball the ship that was to be repaired. Did you check to see if that your repair base was mothballed. It probably won't work if it is.

PsychoTechFreak · #3 May 12th, 2001, 04:35 PM

Vesuvius, is your damaged ship a captured one from another race ? They seem not to be repair-able...

Suicide Junkie · #4 May 12th, 2001, 06:25 PM

You do need to watch out for captured ships. You can only repair things that you can build in the first place!

Dracus · #5 May 12th, 2001, 07:14 PM

He is right, You can not repair something from a higher tech level then you have or from a type of tech you can never develop.
tech. You capture a ship That has Crystal tech and you can not gain that tech then You can not repair the damaged area's of that ship that use that tech. You can repair the engines as long as they are not from a level you have not researched yet. When i capture ships that will not gain my anything by breaking them down. I add them to my fleets and use them until they get damaged. I will then either trade them to my allies for other ships or give them off as a gift to an allie.
That way I don't continue paying for a damaged ship. (ps. I rarely ever scrap a ship for any reason.)

ZzZ · #6 May 12th, 2001, 07:18 PM

@ Vesuvius

Does the ship have that wrench-symbol? You haven't answered to that yet.

ZzZ

ZzZ · #7 May 12th, 2001, 07:33 PM

Is there no way to analyze the alien ship ... and gather the new/higher developed/unique tech from it? Even with intelligence projects or something?

Would be interesting. I only know that you can't trade a unique tech ... although it's possible to make good deals when offering a unique tech to a neutral race ... let's say you offer your Massive Shield Depleter for 10.000 minerals in return ... and the Cynarra Holdings will give you the 10k minerals every turn although they never receive the tech ...

I know .. this is exploiting the game. I just found it out accidentally because in one game I tried to strengthen the CH against the Phong (I was in war with the yellow bastards) but they always stayed at the same tech level.

ZzZ