Repairing ships and star-bases

Starships repair themselves, but the speed depends on their location. They heal faster in orbit of a planet than out in space. You can take the repair attribute to start to speed it, as well as the micro repair bots galactic wonder. It's been said that starbases repair themselves very slowly, but I don't think it's much of an issue, as they don't ussually last more than one or two attacks. Just my opinion though.

If it is essential to repair a ship or a class VERY fast, and you are willing to spend on it, save their current configuration to to a new ship class name, then upgrade to that.

Its about the cheapest upgrade cost, but it WON'T be free, and it will take 1-3 turns, depending on ship size, actual/average distance from base, etc. Remember while ships are upgrading, they have 1 hitpoint.

I don't know of any way to fast repair starbases, but I admit I am not sure what happens to hip points when you add a module. (I'm at work; can't check it out.)

Oh, and if you have refurb Precursor ships that you don't know the base techs for yet, this won't work because you can't save an alternate version to "upgrade" to.

Let's see...other repair factoids. Oh...repair seems to occur on a percent-of-ship basis, and repairing in orbit really is significantly faster. So it really pays to take your big ships (read, Lucky/Precursor Rangers) back to orbit for a few turns when someone manages to land a few hits on them. There is less total payoff to returning a squadron of lighter ships with a couple of wounded birds. My preception is that you get back 3 hp on a 30hp-ship in about the same time that you will get back about 40hp on a 400hp ship.

drrider

While the upgrade part probably works, I have a problem with theupgrade system. It doesn't make sense that a ship anywhere in the galaxy, whether in orbit or deep in enemy space, can all of a sudden, upgrade into something new with new parts. I honestly think either there should somehow be a limitation that a ship can only be upgraded either in orbit, near a planet you control with a starbase, or not at all. JMO.

I'm not alone ! I find it weird also. IMO, upgrades should be allowed only at a planet orbit (only if a starport is present), docked inside a bigger ship (if carriers will exist someday) or at a starbase having a "docking bay" module (which would also allow the player to put his small ships inside).

Note that because "carriers" and "docking" are dead horses, well military starbases could allow you to upgrade your ships if it is placed next to it.

And again you think the same way has I do. Starbases don't last very long so...
JMO also!