Repair limpets + Repair rats
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I would hope by now that enough people have suggested this for FDev to take a bit of notice
Although I would humbly like to suggest "Rescue Rats" so as to cover both re-fuelling and repairing of stranded ships.
I would hope by now that enough people have suggested this for FDev to take a bit of notice
The problem is that FD refuses to give us the ability to transfer credits to other players. I have no way to reward the fuel rat or rescue rat that traveled 10,000 LY to bail me out of trouble.
I would be forced to go back to my home system, grab my Anaconda, buy a full hold of something valuable, and abandon it so he can collect it with limpets. It really is a pain to do so.
There needs to be a way that we can thank our rescuers that is more efficient than the current buy and dump cargo for them.
The Rats don't accept payment of any sort though.
Isn't that is what Reboot/Repair is for? I can recall once (before R/R was added, and way before Wings) having to self destruct because my sensors were destroyed.
No.
Maybe a repair arm mounted on a hardpoint suited only for hull or canopy repairs. Or maybe the ability to align and dock with other ships to exchange fuel and parts and maybe even commodities or materials. In any case something that is believable.
The game is already on a downward slope with ethereal materials and instant synthesis, and I don't want to get to see floating red or green hull numbers, damage-over-time mechanics, flamethrowers in space and other kinds of abominations I've seen in other space games.
Maybe a repair arm mounted on a hardpoint suited only for hull or canopy repairs. Or maybe the ability to align and dock with other ships to exchange fuel and parts and maybe even commodities or materials. In any case something that is believable.
The game is already on a downward slope with ethereal materials and instant synthesis, and I don't want to get to see floating red or green hull numbers, damage-over-time mechanics, flamethrowers in space and other kinds of abominations I've seen in other space games.
I don't object to some sort of repair mechanic and drones (limpets) or some other module would be fine. In this case repair drones might make more sense than a repair arm to be honest - zipping around a ship making lots of little fixes seems reasonable to me.
I agree with ship to ship docking and exchange though, that would be great. I can see why FD are worried about that though so seems a long way off. But it could be lovely..
I would hope by now that enough people have suggested this for FDev to take a bit of notice
Rescue rats with ships in appropriated colors.
RED AND YELLOW!
Why? Is that really their official policy?
Yes it is.
They do it because they want too and lets face it, they are only losing the price of a bit of fuel
I recommended that there was a turret arm on our SRV that could weld or make hull repairs.. so it required us to land and manually repair the hull. Just have ammo for it such as paste or whatever..
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oh i could have used something like that last night. took some damage and the cargo door got jammed open so ended up disabling my fsd too