[Beta] Canopy repairing

[Ember]

Currently in the beta it is now possible to repair your ship's canopy with an AFMU. Which is fantastic to explorers... However it leaves me wondering..

Can the AFMU repair a canopy that has been breached? And does the Repair/Reboot option also repair a breached canopy to 1%? If anyone could inform me on that, that would be great.

If the answer to either of those is yes, then I really see no reason anymore to fit anything but D rated life-support... since canopy breaches wouldnt really be something to worry about beyond the immediate lack of HUD.

[Ottomic]

Why would you carry more than a D class for exploring anyway? It's not like you're gonna reach civilized space if you get a breach 1000 LY away.

[Ember]

Publicado originalmente por Ottomic:

Why would you carry more than a D class for exploring anyway? It's not like you're gonna reach civilized space if you get a breach 1000 LY away.

I wasn't saying it just for exploring, I was just saying in general, there would be no reason to carry anything but D for the lower power use and higher jumprange, even in a combat ship where canopy breaches are a very real threat (I normally carry a C or A on a combat ship so if it breaches I can still fight for a resonable amount of time before getting repaired)

[Ottomic]

Publicado originalmente por TuxedoSt3v3:

I wasn't saying it just for exploring, I was just saying in general, there would be no reason to carry anything but D for the lower power use and higher jumprange, even in a combat ship where canopy breaches are a very real threat (I normally carry a C or A on a combat ship so if it breaches I can still fight for a resonable amount of time before getting repaired)

...if you carry an AFMU around, which I don't.

But eh, I guess it'd make sense for it not to restore breached canopies. I haven't tried it myself.

[Taako]

From what I gathered, your life support's oxygen reservers wont restore to normal/back to full. I mean even if your canopy is breached and, lets say, you lose 1 minute of oxygen of your D rated life support system - D rating gives you about 7 and half minutes of oxygen IIRC - once your canopy is repaired and life support is back online, your oxigen reserves will still be at 6:30.

[Ottomic]

That would make higher grades actually more desirable for explorers. Good point.