Newcomer / Intro Repair limpets

Moadeeb · Dec 6, 2017

What percent does 1 repair limpet repair?

YinYin · Dec 6, 2017

Nothing in elite except your display works in %.

They repair hull integrity points depending on the controller module.

Moadeeb · Dec 6, 2017

My hull is at 92% and I am wondering if I am wasting a repair limpet over minus 8% hull

YinYin · Dec 6, 2017

You would need to figure out how much integrity those 8% are for your ship and how much your installed controller repairs.

Maymo · Dec 6, 2017

Class 1 can repair 60 hull integrity points per limpet.
Class 3 = 180
Class 5 = 310

If all you want to do is repair your own ship then you just need a D rated controller, if you want to repair other ships....well, you probably still just want the D rated controller. I think FD should rework the repair limpets to repair more hull from E-A rated controllers.

I used a 5D on my Gunship for BH and found it really useful, 8 limpets could repair over 2400 hull points.

Moadeeb said:
My hull is at 92% and I am wondering if I am wasting a repair limpet over minus 8% hull

Check your armour stats in the right panel.

Moadeeb · Dec 6, 2017

CMDR Maymo said:
Class 1 can repair 60 hull integrity points per limpet.
Class 3 = 180
Class 5 = 310

If all you want to do is repair your own ship then you just need a D rated controller, if you want to repair other ships....well, you probably still just want the D rated controller. I think FD should rework the repair limpets to repair more hull from E-A rated controllers.

I used a 5D on my Gunship for BH and found it really useful, 8 limpets could repair over 2400 hull points.

Check your armour stats in the right panel.

Thank you

YinYin · Dec 6, 2017

The higher grades only have more range/time then as usual? They don't even repair faster?

Chris Simon · Dec 6, 2017

YinYin said:
The higher grades only have more range/time then as usual? They don't even repair faster?

I think they repair more integrity points in the same amount of time. So technically they are faster. But I never actually measured it.

YinYin · Dec 6, 2017

Maymo just said they repair the same within a class.

Chris Simon · Dec 6, 2017

Hmmmmm... Then we have to believe him.

Moadeeb · Dec 6, 2017

I just checked I have a 3A.

Maymo · Dec 6, 2017

YinYin said:
The higher grades only have more range/time then as usual? They don't even repair faster?

They don’t even get more time...

All repair limpets through every grade/class get 300s to do what they need to and the movement speed is also 200m/s across the board. Only the range increases through E -> A.

Given that a 5D controller is 8t and uses just 0.3mw of power there’s no strong reason to buy a 5A which weighs 20t, uses 0.6mw of power just for an 800m range increase.

If you’re exploring and you need repair from a friend you’re just going to sit still while it does its work.

Chris Simon · Dec 6, 2017

CMDR Maymo said:
They don’t even get more time...

All repair limpets through every grade/class get 300s to do what they need to and the movement speed is also 200m/s across the board. Only the range increases through E -> A.

Given that a 5D controller is 8t and uses just 0.3mw of power there’s no strong reason to buy a 5A which weighs 20t, uses 0.6mw of power just for an 800m range increase.

If you’re exploring and you need repair from a friend you’re just going to sit still while it does its work.

Oh. That's... disappointing.
I only ever used repair limpets on my own exploration ship, so I didn't know that. Lame.