Repairing .. what %

[SteveTheMad]

Afternoon,

Recently bought the game, and been repairing stuff left and right, had not really noticed that I was using salvage items when doing so.. ( until I ran out of some, lol.. really should take more notice ).

Is there a specific % you should wait to repair?

do you use the same amount of items if say its 50% damage as you would 90?

Can not find one in the first system, are there Merchants that sell salvage materials in other systems?

And off subject.. where can I buy mining drones or beacons, as not found anyone that sells them in the first system.

Just done the first FTL mission, 2nd in Lpg, other than that, just 3 of the Halamis mission in there laboratory ( do these run out.. or just there to give you cash until your bored and move on? ).

Thanks Steve.

[Oakshield]

Since I'm going to reply in a somewhat broader aspect, I will keep some of the reply vague to avoid spoilers. If you still want a more clear answer, let me know and I'll post a second reply later.

Now to answer your questions:

Armor can wait a while although having it at 80% or less will certainly be noticed.
Weapons are better to repaired after each fight or when you're having them at 90-95% as the more they're damaged, the worse they will become.

The good thing is, the more you repair items, the better they will eventually become due to the perks you unlock. Which means you can use them longer, which makes them more effective.

Item use for repair seem to be a bit random for me. But to get the repair items, salvage all the junk items you find. And that's because you won't be able to buy those items from a merchant.
It helps increasing your skill and gives you the items needed to repair armor, weapons and ship parts.

I prefer to salvage about everything I find and only sell off the Aznarian relics. Something you most likely run into later.
For ship part repairs, you can do that automatically or using certain items; which can be found when mining shipwrecks or salvaging three various parts of boarded ships.
And shipwrecks can be seen when you select a planet and use the magnifying glass to scan them. Shipwrecks appear as green circles in space.


Mining drones and beacons can be bought at the Ship Parts vendor - the same one selling you the turrets and ammo - which can be found at the Achmedius Trade Station. IIRC that's also the station the two doctors drop you off after the tutorial.

The missions for Halamis can be done for as long as you like. Just make sure you get the "Experimental Trans Locator" from them, as that will make it a lot easier to get back aboard your ship after a mission later in the game.

House Varadyn offers a good item as well, but since that one needs 780 tokens you will have to do 5 two hour missions or multiple shorter ones.
There's a third house that offers something like a "location scanner" which briefly shows the direction of enemies on a ground battle map. I can't remember which one it was, but I think one of the tool tips of the loading screen shows it at some point.


Hope this helped and have fun with the game!

Thorin

[SteveTheMad]

@Oakshield - Thanks Thorin

[starman01]

In regard to these explanations, i would like to ask something too.... Started boarding yesterday, and i'm not entirely sure about repairing systems.... So in each ship i find a box that contains some items, but are these items I get random and everytime i board a ship it is reset to zero (kind of a game of luck thing), or can i actually store these items and rather salvaging anything until i have enough parts to repair some on another ship ?

Also, if i read that right, if i repair a ship system to 50% i have benefits in the selling price or do I even receive the item ?

And since you can't buy salvage items, are the ship systems on boarded ships the only source. Or do i get some from salvaging destroyed loot ? Sofar i sell everything to desperatly collect some money :)

[Here]

Originally posted by starman01:

In regard to these explanations, i would like to ask something too.... Started boarding yesterday, and i'm not entirely sure about repairing systems.... So in each ship i find a box that contains some items, but are these items I get random and everytime i board a ship it is reset to zero (kind of a game of luck thing), or can i actually store these items and rather salvaging anything until i have enough parts to repair some on another ship ?

Also, if i read that right, if i repair a ship system to 50% i have benefits in the selling price or do I even receive the item ?

And since you can't buy salvage items, are the ship systems on boarded ships the only source. Or do i get some from salvaging destroyed loot ? Sofar i sell everything to desperatly collect some money :)

The finishing products needed for Repairing gear are different than the components used for using the Salvage/Repair interface on boarded ships. The components for Repairing ships can be stored up either by Salvaging ships and taking the components or by Mining Derelict Ships. So you should have more than you need if tunneled.

It is true that neither finishing product or the components to Repair boarded ships can be purchased.

If your Salvaging skill is high enough, as you Salvage a ship you may get back more components and can create a dynamo. But as Derelict Ships were added ...may be best to mine a few of those and store up some components.

All in all boarding does offer an alternative to Repairing and Salvaging gear to raise the Repair and Salvage skills ... albeit a bit slow.

[starman01]

Thanks, i ignored mining a bit since it takes so long, but i did mine one large wreck for a long time, guess that's where i did get the first big stash from.

When you say "salvaging a ship", you mean salvaging the three equipment parts, right ? Cause so far i could not see a way to either keep or salvage the conquered ship, it gets immediately sold.

[Here]

Yeah ... using the Salvage/Repair interactions on the Ship itself. I was refering to a player Salvaging all the components, then Repairing them all, then Salvaging again. It is possible to Salvage, Repair, Salvage over and over if you have the components. Of course it helps to have a lead on the Salvage Skill so that you pull out more than 1 component. Thus creating a dynamo.

I have not done a lot of boarding since Repair could be raised faster elsewhere {Boarding used to be the only source to raise Repair}. In all honestly you are best just to Board as you were ... do whatever and leave lol. I was just mentioning a slightly obsolete way to multiply components by Salvaging, Repairing, Salvaging over and over ... saving often and reloading if you get bad luck lol. Corny ... just something to reduce movement/travel.

But yes once you finish and sell the ship and leave that is that. You have to manually leave the ship though ... so can mess around as long as you like. I cannot recall if talking to Arkus
{or whatever that dudes name is} locks the interfaces ... just mess with them as much as you like before you are ready to leave.

[Oakshield]

You can only talk to Arkus if you have completed the following requirements when boarding:

1) Repair / salvage engines;
2) repair / salvage systems;
3) repair / salvage electronics (I think it was)
4) removed all the crew
5) place a beacon at the helm
6) initialize the beacon (meaning, talk to Arkus)

So as long as you haven't either one of those steps, I don't think you're able to leave the ship.
I haven't tested the "automatic translocator" we can get from the Halamis faction trader if one of the requirements hasn't met, but in theory that one shouldn't work either.

Payment is made the moment you click at [OK] to close the "conversation" with Arkus. After that the only thing to do is returning to your own ship or it that leaves you with checking if you've picked up all the lootbags, has looted all possible lockers, chests, crates and whatever and made sure you took the ship items from that large crate in the cargo area before you talk to Arkus.
Which means there isn't that much to do, actually. As you won't be able to interact with anything else.

A few seconds after you've left the boarded ship and entered your own, the crewless ship will enter FTL and will be gone "forever"

Thorin