repair in drydock?

[Vinny]

I thought an update added this ability, but I'm not seeing how to do it. Am I missing something?

[Gilmoy]

You must be landed at a zone where you have 1+ ships in Drydock.
In the Repair box, click the upper-right arrow to open the menu.
From there, you can select any of your ships in Drydock.

(It's not under the Dry Dock menu, it's available from the Repair box.)

[_] Apparently, you cannot queue a repair to be done asynchronously.
When you repair a ship in Drydock, the full repair time passes immediately.
So this won't save you from the 10.4 weeks to repair a Warhammer Hyperwarp Drive

[Vinny]

Thank you for the answer.
I'm surprised the devs would defeat the point of repairing in drydock by not allowing you to que it up. Sounds like I have to replace, rather than repair, to get around this annoying design issue.

[JimmysTheBestCop]

Repairing is setup for instantly happening.

It would be an entire new game mechanic to add queues to repair as well. It's not how normal repairs work.

Might not be worthwhile endeavor considering it's probably already a limited number of players wanting drydock repair.

Think it was only added because people couldn't fly ships if they damaged the claimed ship severely in combat.

But most probably just sell claimed prize ships.

In 400+ hours I've never had the need to repair a 2nd ship. Guess it can happen. But the average player can't come across it regularly.

Adding new mechanics always has to be weighted in terms of how many people will actually use it.

[Trese Brothers]

Originally posted by Vinny:

Thank you for the answer.
I'm surprised the devs would defeat the point of repairing in drydock by not allowing you to que it up. Sounds like I have to replace, rather than repair, to get around this annoying design issue.

Thanks for the feedback. I am also surprised we missed that, but we're just 2 humans lol. If only we had the memories of the Zendu, I am sure I would have caught it ;)

I have added this to the short list to fix.

[climbingeastofwinter]

Originally posted by Trese Brothers:

Originally posted by Vinny:

Thank you for the answer.
I'm surprised the devs would defeat the point of repairing in drydock by not allowing you to que it up. Sounds like I have to replace, rather than repair, to get around this annoying design issue.

Thanks for the feedback. I am also surprised we missed that, but we're just 2 humans lol. If only we had the memories of the Zendu, I am sure I would have caught it ;)

I have added this to the short list to fix.

I'm not really sure why, but I always read it as 'Tres Brothers', and figured there were at least three of you. :)

[Trese Brothers]

There are actually 3, but Martin only sounds us on certain projects -- in this case TBF and CKF. And of course, there more than 2 on our team. I'm just too used to saying that. Lame excuse anyway, we should have caught the option to queue.

[Vinny]

Originally posted by Trese Brothers:

Thanks for the feedback. I am also surprised we missed that, but we're just 2 humans lol. If only we had the memories of the Zendu, I am sure I would have caught it ;)

I have added this to the short list to fix.

For such a small team, you've made such a fun and immersive game. I appreciate the dedication to responding to forums and making improvements. Thanks!

[Vinny]

Originally posted by JimmysTheBestCop:

In 400+ hours I've never had the need to repair a 2nd ship. Guess it can happen. But the average player can't come across it regularly.

I've seen 50+ week repair times, and I have a fleet of Titans. If I have a nasty battle, it makes sense to hop into a standby ship and let the damaged one be repaired while I'm off fighting xenos.

My crew has better things to do, like getting drunk in the spice hall.

[Trese Brothers]

#StarTradersLife

[Tuidjy]

Originally posted by Vinny:

Originally posted by JimmysTheBestCop:

In 400+ hours I've never had the need to repair a 2nd ship. Guess it can happen. But the average player can't come across it regularly.

I've seen 50+ week repair times, and I have a fleet of Titans. If I have a nasty battle, it makes sense to hop into a standby ship and let the damaged one be repaired while I'm off fighting xenos.

Seconded.

I practically never repair my expensive ships while I wait. It's combat repairs, or on-landing repairs, or exploration repairs, or drydock module replacements.

I'm not waiting four months for repairs.

[Shad1902]

same here...just came out of a tight battle, flew back to my "main planet" where my second ship sits in dry dock (I have 1 for combat and 1 for exploration / hauling cargo).

I thought I could hop in my cargo hauler, but if I can't repair my battleship in dry dock it defeats the purpose of having more than 1 ship.

[Trese Brothers]

You can repair ships in dry dock today, implemented months ago. pop up the repair detail in the zone and switch ships.

[Trese Brothers]

Originally posted by Jimmy:

I must have mis-read something. Indeed, one can repair ships in the dry dock. I thought the thread was about queuing the repairs in the dry dock. Please forgive me.

One can queue upgrades on ships in the dry dock and sail away while new components are swapped in. Cannot the same be done with dry dock repairs? Is there a need for the crew to hang out while repairs are made?

I would like to be able to hop into a spare ship and continue to run missions and trade instead of waiting the weeks (or months) the yard takes to repair hull or warp drive.

Ah, gotcha. Sorry I thought you were asking about what the OP was asking about.

It is on our list and I am not sure why it isn't done yet :D Will get it added soon!