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Repair Laser - MacAulay - 03-23-2009
Just an idea. How about creating a repair laser spcifically for use on the Repair ships. The laser could be a beam weapon modified to channel a stream of nanobots at the target vessel. Instead of damaging a ships hull it actually repairs it over time. Not sure if do-able or suggested before. I mention it as it seems the repair ship is a somewhat redundant vessel and the scope for RP would be good
Repair Laser - Mastermind - 03-23-2009
It's doable I've seen in on I think hamburg city.
I think it would be cool to have one on a repair ship, it shouldn't repair that quick and have absolutely no large range. And they should only be mounted on repair ships, cuz they can be very abused in combat.
Repair Laser - Silent_M - 03-23-2009
It's been discussed before, the way it works is that the weapon deals negative amount of damage, but I heard that it is prone to some glitches like instakills ect... so if i recall correctly the general consensus was no.
Repair Laser - Guest - 03-23-2009
Any ship hit by a - damage at 100% hull is killed. PVP abuse incomming.
Repair Laser - Andrew_Bonesovich - 03-23-2009
' Wrote:Any ship hit by a - damage at 100% hull is killed. PVP abuse incomming.
Make it sanctionable? Or... just extremely unuseful in fight, like slow refire, slow projectile etc...
Repair Laser - Nightwind - 03-23-2009
' Wrote:Any ship hit by a - damage at 100% hull is killed. PVP abuse incomming.
I have to contradict that. Flak has a Repair Gun and it works very well. Without any instakills or glitches. And balance seems to play a very important role there...
Give it a huge energy consumption. Btw it is the repair vessels JOB to actually repair ships.
Repair Laser - pragun - 03-23-2009
cant there be some sort of checking code in the programming ?? Like the "if" command in C++
If the hull is full, it does nothing at all,
If its not, it simply repairs..
I m not sure if this would work technically, but just a hypothetical thought..
Repair Laser - Guest - 03-23-2009
Silent M is partially correct. This Has been discussed before.
However, its not done by negative damage (reasons already explained)
Its done through FLHook (cant remember who said it in the other threads)
Repair Laser - hribek - 03-23-2009
Does it repair equipment as well?
Repair Laser - I_m_rdy - 03-23-2009
' Wrote:Does it repair equipment as well?We could try that on Hamburg City... Or just ask v0dk4.
It's a good idea methinks, gives the repair ship more use than just being a bot/bat container. But make it only equippable on a repair ship, maybe... Yes, it's done through FLHook, so we could like on the Mining Lasers increase the repair rate on repair ships rather than others.