How do I send out repair drones?

[Sillls]

Im on a cap ship and even with my shield up they still damaged me eng gone and some of my turrets. I'm dead in the water. My capt. won't send out repair drones.

What should I do?

Also says repair drones unavalible. Why?

[Alith-Ahnar]

if the unavailable text shows up for your repair drones they actualy doing work.

[Sillls]

How do you use drones?

[Benzin]

I too have seen this.
My frigate remains damaged for hours and hours, and there are 5 repair drones in it. The captain never sends them out, and i see no way of sending them out myself.
Is this (yet another) bug?

[Alith-Ahnar]

Originally posted by Benzin:

I too have seen this.
My frigate remains damaged for hours and hours, and there are 5 repair drones in it. The captain never sends them out, and i see no way of sending them out myself.
Is this (yet another) bug?

you don't send em out manual your service crew does on it's own.

your onboard crew can not repair your ship beyond a certain percentage that is set by your crews skill.

Should your ship not have a drone launchbay you will not see the drones be launched but the crew still will use em internal.

[cwsumner]

In the other games, when drones have been launched they show as "Unavailable". Are you sure they have not been launched?

But "hours and hours" does seem longer than it should be to see -some- repair. Note that crew and drones might not be able to get to 100%, but it should get stuff working.

[Benzin]

An example from my current game, I have two cerebrus frigates patroling a sector. One of them has been sitting at arround 40% hull integrity since monday. It hasnt been repaired even by 1%.

[cwsumner]

Originally posted by Benzin:

An example from my current game, I have two cerebrus frigates patroling a sector. One of them has been sitting at arround 40% hull integrity since monday. It hasnt been repaired even by 1%.

Did they repair any of the equipment? Lower level Engineers only repair small stuff, I think.

Also look to see if any crew have leveled in engineering. If they are working they should be leveling. I think in X4 the crew are assigned to jobs automatically, except for Pilot and Manager.

[SharxX8]

One thing i can say for sure after some boarding is that the ship repairs itself to 66% hull. Funny enough it even worked without repair drones or service crew.
But the freshly boarded ships seem to act funny in a lot of ways so it might be connected to that

I,too had instances where ships would not repair at all though. Might be an issue with the frigate.

Edit: To answer the question, from my experience in order for the modules to repair itself you need to assign a captain to the ship (maybe service crew as well but did not seem to matter).
The modules will then slowly repair itself.
I'm not sure if it is actually connected to % of the hull but i don't believe it is as neither repairing the hull or trying to repair to modules manually helped in any way.
It just takes a certain amount of time.

Not a 100% sure on that in case you don't have any crew available though

[Sillls]

I don't know what was up with the drones but the crew was slowly repairing the ship. Very slowly atfirst. then the drones starting working. I don't know what happened.

[Set-115689]

Try using only one drone and see what happens.

[Set-115689]

Originally posted by Benzin:

An example from my current game, I have two cerebrus frigates patroling a sector. One of them has been sitting at arround 40% hull integrity since monday. It hasnt been repaired even by 1%.

Are they captured ships?