Repair ships

[Ricktehdead]

How do repair ships currently work in this game? Equip them with repair drones and turrets then telling them to patrol sector or attack? Etc. I'm curious how the AI will repair the ship, or what command makes them.

Thanks in advance!

[JD]

If your vessel is crewed with enough mechanics
(above 100% efficiency up to a 130% max.) it will repair damage on its own.
If blocks of your ship have been destroyed (broken glass symbol on the top center of your HUD), fully repairing your ship will cost less credits and resources if you let your mechanics replenish your ship's HP first.
The AI currently does not repair its ships as far as I know.
Auto-targeting repair turrets will heal vessels in range automaticly if slapped on a station or ship and set to autofire.
If you want to help your AI allies you have to repair their ships yourself.
As for pure repairships themselves, I never tested them.

[ouch67]

I always keep a squad of repair fighters on my ship. They help quite a lot. Tell them to attack to use them. Or tell them to defend to repair yourself.

I use a mix of 6 hull repair fighters and 6 hull and shield repair fighters.

[Ricktehdead]

TY

[rickcarson]

Apparently repair lasers are strong enough to necro a four year old thread which has already been marked as answered, but not powerful enough to actually start their own thread. Huh.

:-p

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If you move towards the enemy or the enemy moves towards you, your escorts will start fighting them.

If you want to retreat everything from a battle, just jump out and the escorts will all follow you automatically.

.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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(Apologies if I mis-understood the question, which I think I must have?)