Repair Laser

[MacAulay]

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

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[Mastermind]

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.

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[Silent_M]

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.

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[Guest]

Any ship hit by a - damage at 100% hull is killed. PVP abuse incomming.

[Andrew_Bonesovich]

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...

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A criminal always returns to the crime scene.

[Nightwind]

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.

[pragun]

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..

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Retired

[Guest]

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)

[hribek]

Does it repair equipment as well?

[I_m_rdy]

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.

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