Ship Repair

[Mike]

I am playing my first game. I read the steam page that the dev made about repairing ships.

I am inside a ship that is in pretty great shape, 3 floors, repair terminal, no enemies.

Only one floor has any damage at all. I have an officer with repair skill 2 so I can repair floors and walls.

I have 12 repair kits.

2 problems:

Problem 1: no scrap metal. How do I get it? I always explore every planet in every system and I always explore every ship and clear every dungeon (depth 12 is the deepest I went so far). I have 6 officers with level 2 skills (including repair 2) but no activated abilities on them related to repair.

I always tow ships and sell them. Should I instead be blowing them up? Will that give me scrap metal to repair other ships?
I also don't have the gadget to repair more special things. I read that blowing up ships gives gadgets, should I be blowing them up instead of towing them?

Problem 2: The life support device on this ship I want is broken and it is beside one of those explosive fields. If I approach the life support device to use a toolkit on it the field will explode and maybe destroy the damaged life support pod? Can I get around that somehow?

Thanks! Awesome game!

[David Gervais]

Hi, to get scrap metal just blow up shipwrecks. (shipwrecks in the first 2-3 sectors should get you a head start on scrap metal and rare parts.) mid level sectors are good to give a boost to your credits by towing the shipwrecks to a station. (I tend to split the wrecks half blow up and half tow.) if you 'move onto' the life support you'll take damage but as far as I know the life support wont. (at least that has been my experience) you need a repair kit to repair the machines like life support. Cheers!

[IBOL17]

there are also ways of dealing with short circuits, like the EMP activated skill, or shooting it with a scrambler weapon.
Leave yourself a note on that ship, keep exploring other places and come back when you have what you need. It's not meant to be a trivial accomplishment.
Life support will probably need a "gadget" to repair anyway, so blow up shipwrecks and search them, you'll eventually find what you need.

development is happening constantly and there will be other ways of getting more specific gadgets in the future.

Good luck!

[Mike]

Thanks, I blew up a ship and got the gadget I needed to repair life support but there is another system that I didn't have the gadget to repair.

I will give some feedback:
It is unintuitive that blowing up ships is better than towing them. Presumably there is a salvage option that is better than blowing it up after you tow it.
The fact that you can only get gadgets by blowing up a ship is surprising. If the gadget is in the ship I should be able to get it through towing and properly salvaging it or something.

Add a help pop up explaining gadgets, how to get them, and what they do please.
Page 3 of help (Terminology) does not list gadgets.
I clicked through every UI button I could find but couldn't find what gadgets I own anywhere.

Unrelated to ships:
Half the action buttons are in the top right (Shoot, cloak) and half are in the bottom center (scan, hail). Maybe put those all together so the UI feels less random.

[Mike]

btw I absolutely love how active IBOL17 is. It is the highest I have ever seen on any game. Great work on the game and on responding to all the forum people.

[ZAAVEL]

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[Mike]

3 year old thread, surely you didn't mean to necro this.

[ZAAVEL]

Originally posted by Mike:

3 year old thread, surely you didn't mean to necro this.

The link from game developers still leads here. Do you know more relevant thread?

[IBOL17]

What info are you trying to find?

[ZAAVEL]

Originally posted by IBOL17:

What info are you trying to find?

Thx! I've find the actual topic about the daily codes. Can you please, change the link, foe gamecodes exchange to the actual ones in Steam and Discord?