found planet killer wont repair

[gocdavies]

So found a planet killer. have had construction ship now repairing it for ages and wont go above 91%. its stuck at this amount. and i mean its been repairing it for a very long time.

is their a known bug that these cant be repaired or has to reach a certain part in the story line to repair it? im already at war with the shakturi. winning easy. and they have 3 planets left. they lost 5 so far. and they have 1 fleet left which is being killed as we speak. my spies destroyed their beacon so they cant get reinforcements.

what gives?

[ZumZoom]

It may look like it's stuck, because repairing it from 80 to 100 does take about 50 years even with steadily increasing your construction speed through research. Even with construction yard v5 (or is ir 4 for the top tech?) it takes a couple of years to repair 1% of that ship.
That planet destroyer has nothing to do with Shakturi storyline.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

The percentage only ticks up with each repaired component, the planet killer weapon is a very big and difficult component to repair. IIRC if you don't have the tech for a component it's repair speed by a construction ship is also reduced and you probably don't have the superweapon's tech.

[gocdavies]

of the items on the ship. only 2 items i have not researched, meridian shields and integrated command centre.

[gocdavies]

so 5 years on and still the planet kiler isnt repaired and still stuck at 92%. ive now got all tech on it. what is the dam point of having ship in game if it cant be repaired,. by sure now it is bugged?

[Gromov]

No. It *will* take insanely long to repair. Usually you (I) have my own cheap knock-off "planet killers" out of shipyard before the Original is repaired.

You might also try manually swapping the repair ship with one having upgraded repair module even that is supposed (?) automatically upgrade as tech goes up.

[gocdavies]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3417676464 i have a repair kit on ship and construction yard. so far its taken in total around 9 years and still stuck on 92%, it started on 91%

[ZumZoom]

9 years is nothing. It's closer to 20-30 years. Even a fully upgraded large spaceport with bonuses takes around 10 years to build a PD, so compare that to a Constructor wih a single shipyard module.

[gocdavies]

yes but its only repairing 1% of the PD. it was stuck on 99% all game for the actual ship. and the construction is 92% way through repairing that 1%. does not seem right. i can repair a fleet carrier with construction ship in a month i think

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

And what is the actual state of the planet killer itself? Take a screenshot of it's design screen and you should see which component is being repaired and how far along it is.

[SgtScum]

Yes. Repair speed will depend on how much higher a tech the component being repaired is. So it can seem to go fast on certain phases but when it hits a high tech component it slows to a crawl.

A side note. The planet destroyer is bugged in that if you decide to activate its core computer and it goes off on a rampage it runs out of fuel super fast and becomes harmless often before even leaving the system. Needs a design overhaul so it won't run out of gas and can actually rove around a while blowing stuff up.

[gocdavies]

the only tech i dont have is the integrated command. I have everything else.

4 items in repair. i have tech to 3 of these
11 destroyed items that i have tech for.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3418037612

[gocdavies]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3418038158

[Ax4711]

One advantage of the planet killer taking forever to repair is when the AI finds it first, you have enough time to let their engineer have a "work accident" and responsibly take over the job.

[gocdavies]

well actually i was not first to it. i had to declare war if i recall so that i could kill their construction ship. it meant for a while i was at war with them an his more powerful ally who was at the time my closest AI friend. had to take some effort to repair that diplomacy.

was their an alternative way? work accident?

[TheCr33pur]

May need to research a better construction ship and modules to speed things up or could require it for it continue?