I was in my Python and lost my canopy. I escaped and then dropped down to repair. I had an AMFU onboard with plenty of ammo but when I tried to put the canopy into repair mode with the AMFU activated it wouldn't go inactive. I even tried it with the AMFU disabled and the result was the same. Has repairing the canopy been patched out? I even tried repair limpets and while they did repair my hull, they didn't repair the canopy. I didn't expect them to, but not being able to repair the canopy was disappointing to say the least. It's not really the re-buy, although that 6 million did sting a bit. I had just assumed that the canopy would still be repairable. Is this something I need to make as a bug report or is this normal behavior?
Cockpit canopy no longer repairable?
- Thread starter KellyR
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I THINK the canopy is only repairable until it completely gives out. Then you have to go to a station to get it 'replaced'
Thank you. I didn't realize that. I have repaired a blown canopy in 2.3 or 2.4. Haven't tried it (until now) in 3.X.
Oh? I had always just assumed they couldn't be repaired after blowing out. That being said, I've never escaped with a blown out canopy that I can recall, at least not since early 2015. Most likely just saw it on YouTube videos, but I digress.
Maybe it wasn't totally blown, just damaged, but I could have sworn I repaired one that was actually blown out. Oh well. Having to replace it after it's actually been blown out does make sense.
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You completely lost your canopy?
As in, you were exposed to space, life support kicked in?
If so, that's working properly. You can repair a damaged canopy, which only has cracks. But if it's gone completely, and there's no window, you need to dock and replace.
As in, you were exposed to space, life support kicked in?
If so, that's working properly. You can repair a damaged canopy, which only has cracks. But if it's gone completely, and there's no window, you need to dock and replace.
You couldn't get to a station?
Dismiss and recall ship if canopy is broken.
With life support synthesis and good supply of cheap materials, you could fly to Colonia without a canopy. Never any reason not to be able to make it to a station.
Once I found it wouldn't work, I set course for the nearest station and engaged Supercruise. Unfortunately I didn't have quite enough time and ran out of oxygen shortly before I could get inside. My own fault. I'm not blaming anyone but me and I'm not asking to have the funds replaced. If it was working as intended (which it seemed to be), that's the breaks. That will teach me to fit a Class A life support from now on. So lesson learned.
Edit: Dohhhh!!!! Forgot all about Life Support synthesis!!!
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Wait.. what?
You can land on a planet and exit your ship as an emergency measure when your canopy is gone. At least it used to be that way
I can't find the thread now, but there's this crazy bloke who actually did this...
I can't find the thread now, but there's this crazy bloke who actually did this...
A guy called Paroxsym did bubble to Beagle Point without a canopy recently.
Yes, and canopies working this way makes sense. What doesn't make sense to me, now that we have repair limpets, is why one of those can't restore a blown canopy. If repair limpets were limited to repairing no more than 10%, 15%, or 25% of your hull, then I could see the rationale making sense. But repair limpets (or multiple limpets) can fully repair your hull from 1% all the way back up to 100%. The AFMU can do the same for modules. What is so special about the canopy that nothing in the field can fix it if it's blown, yet it can be repaired by the AFMU if it's still barely intact?
They should really change it so repair limpets, in addition to repairing your hull, can give you a minimal canopy back (say at 10%). Then the AFMU can do the rest.
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the canopy is clear, it's a different material than the hull and the repair limpits are not designed to handle that material.
At least, that's my rationale.
Right, I imagined it the same way. Holes in the metal part of the hull can be welded shut, but blown-out (highly specialized) glass isn't so easy to repair.
Someone suggested to just weld an armour plate over the hole and then run the 1984 Elite on the HUD until it's repaired at a station
Sure would make docking different.I don't think it's glass at all. I think it's most likely Transparent Aluminum or something like it. And we actually do have Transparent Aluminum now. It's called ALON. Aluminum Oxynitrate. Expensive as the ens ($10 to $15 per square inch), but I can see the price coming down to marketable levels, especially by 3200 or so. 1.6" of this stuff can stop a .50 Calibur bullet, while a 3.7" thick piece of glass laminate won't. See the video below.
[video=youtube;DduO1fNzV4w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduO1fNzV4w[/video]
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I must disagree with the theory that it's transparent aluminium.
Metal doesn't shatter the way it does in Elite. Glass, however the looks exactly the same, when broken.
Metal doesn't shatter the way it does in Elite. Glass, however the looks exactly the same, when broken.