Reboot / Repair failed! - Was this a bug?

Roraima

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Took my T7 Mining dredge into a HI-RES just now. I've done it before with no real issues. If I get pirated I can usually boost away while the shields and hull soak up the damage (it has grade A and D shield boosters, 4A Shield Gen, Size 5 and Size 2 Hull reinforcement packages and military grade composite hull).

Anyway, this time the problem was that I got scanned by two pirates simultaneously, and I think one was also in a wing. So now I am mass locked in the 'roid field with 4 ships attacking. Started to boost away. Shields went down - no biggie. Then with the hull on about 85% the thrusters got shot out completely. I did the reboot repair but it kept saying the process had failed! The thrusters would briefly come back online, then quit again. I tried to reboot / repair 3 times, when finally with the hull at around 50% my T7 exploded and I was at the insurance screen.

I've only ever used reboot / repair once before - is that normal?

Thanks!
 

Synther

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Reboot / Repair is kind of like rock, paper, scissors, as far as I know. The R/R needs stuff to work with to cannibalize into other systems. You might not have had the necessary stuff to work with.
 

shadragon

shadragon
My Arctic Survival Course instructor began his first lecture with , "This is an environment where you can do everything 100% correctly, and still die."

I think the same advice should be taken here.
 

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Mark Allen

Programmer- Elite: Dangerous
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Reboot/repair will report failure in the case that either:
1) - You don't have enough healthy modules for it to cannibalise and repair everything ("healthy" in this case means above 10%). It will still repair everything it could though, I'm not 100% sure if it reports success or failure on a partial repair.
2) - It repaired all the modules fine, then they got blown again before you repowered.

The primary objective with that feature was to give a way out for people who'd had their engines shot out by a pirate and were then left to float, using it in combat may save your bacon but is no guaranteed thing!

Note that there are no exceptions to what the repair will cannibalise - it takes health in chunks weighted towards the most healthy modules first. In some cases it could hasten your death by eating bits of your power plant for example, though will never drop anything below 10%.
 
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