New repair system

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@ orriginal post:

12 000 seconds is more than 3 hours, and 12000 damage is a rather small amount.

the kind of damage that forces you to flee n a fight costs much more than that... leaving your ship knocked out for what.... several days?

Also, you can buy bots, launch, repair, and buy more bots.

This can be done using a FLHook coded respawn/relaunch timer, there's no need to crunch numbers of repair points and time in seconds.

Have a set amount of time a ship must remain in the base it last docked with until it can launch again. Obviously, time would increase from fighters to battleships. If you try to launch a ship in repair (respawn delay not expired) you'd get a message telling you said ship is still under repairs.

This is much simpler than your original needlessly complex idea and will work in the same way.

I think the problem with with any time-based repair system is that for it to be long enough to discourage anyone from repairing during a fight, it would have to be long enough that it would also discourage people from repairing in any "normal" circumstance where they dont intend to re-engage. That may also enourage them to log of and install another mod.


My solution would not require any flhook, but some dev ballancing:

Make bases where you can dock and/or repair more selective.

For example dont let caps dock anywhere...

Only at shipyards, perhaps only in guard systems.

Let the trading factions dock in a lot of places (and also remove their permission to use fighting craft), but the "warring" factions will only be allowed to dock on their own bases. Maybe this can be controlled by only allowing docking for green and not white status, and with ultra-strict rep-ninja.

In addition, dont make lanes and gates that are red with you let you dock.

Those measures would make travelling times in hostile territory take longer, and thus also reduce the advantage one gets from fleeing, docking, and heading back if you are far from "home".

The restricted cap docking, and lane and gate docking would also tie up some loose RP ends that give everythign an "unrealistic" atmosphere.

Yes, this would give certain factions an advantage and otheres a disadantage, depending on where you are.

Rheinland will have a disadvanatge when they are in liberty. Liberty will have a disadvantage in rheinland. Outcasts will have a disadvantage in Liberty.

But that would be a GOOD thing because it makes everythign feel more realistic.

This whole concept of "every fight must be fair, no matter where and who" is rotten to the core. It absolutely ruins RP atmosphere, strategic thinking, and the thought that all fights must be fair makes people whine without end.

If you dont like that you dont have an advantage in a certain place and you think its not fair, go to a place where you have the advantage.

End of story.