The repair ship is, as far as I know, a practically useless ship in the game now, with the bot/bat feeding nerfed it renders the point of that ship useless in game now. I was thinking about something different I can do for DSE and I was thinking about the engineering side and remembering that all our engineering ships were repair ships. It reminded me of why they are there but the lack of things it can do.
So here's the thing, the repair ship is designed to basically be a versatile little craft but there's no way we can do that in game. It then dawned on me 'why aren't they mining ships'? Technically, it has all the abilities to recover metal considering it attaches metal to bases, trade lanes and jump gates and large ships in its RP capactity.
What if we gave the repair ship the ability to mine with a small bonus on scrap metal? It suits the job and gives people a reason to play with it more. It's also a very neutral style ship so relatively diverse in who can use it.
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