Repair drones

[Firestarter]

Add a new repair control module that can deploy drones to repair a ship. The drones can be directed to any ship - your own or someone else's.

If you direct drones to another ship they will have to drop their shield so a certain level of trust will be involved.

 

[Jaiotu]

Great minds think alike. I just posted a similar thread earlier tonight (and I'm sure we aren't the first two to think of it either).
My thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=167588

I like the idea of having to drop the shields... it would make repairs performed in a combat zone more risky. Repairs should also not be immediate nor should they buff the damaged subsystem to 100% and should be ineffective in repairing hull damage. Subsystem repair only.

 

[Firestarter]

Indeed. Repairing a hull would involve a lot of raw materials so that makes sense - maybe a few percent representing a few welds but not more.

Having drones makes for a lot of potential uses like ferrying cargo for large ships to a landing pad (that they can't dock at) or to other ships.

Or transferring demolition charges to another ship's hull.

Or planting a beacon on some resource in deep space so you can find it again. Or planting a beacon on another ship so you can track them - only removable at high tech stations.

Or sending a camera to investigate something with a private video feed back to you.

 

[Psycho Romeo]

Fuel drones carry your fuel from you to your target right? Similarly, repair drones should carry your AFMU ammunition over to your target (and use it to repair the module).
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Remember modules have to be off to be repaired.