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How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« on: April 02, 2011, 02:39:17 AM »
In my current game i have found a 25039950 ton wreck, but every time i try to salvage it i get a message saying that my salvage task group failed to salvage the Wreck.

How do i salvage a wreck this big?
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2011, 09:50:18 AM »
Maybe your salvager task group doesn't have cargo space to actually store what they would gather from the wreck.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2011, 12:14:58 PM »
Those ships/wrecks are bugged and shouldn't exist.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2011, 06:26:42 PM »
I don't know about that, but they can still be salvaged, and you don't get as many minerals as you'd think. :-\
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2011, 05:47:49 AM »
I've tried but I havn't tried adding enough cargo ships. Attempting to only causes me to have overflow errors. Presumably to do with measuring remaining time for the salvager to do its job.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2011, 01:23:33 PM »
Those ships/wrecks are bugged and shouldn't exist.
After seeing in my log what that race calls these I've changed my mind. They, the Precursors, call them "Orb Hab" and from the size they have 100 orbital habitat modules.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2011, 01:52:59 PM »
Board them?  ;)
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2011, 02:01:00 PM »
Planning on it.  ;D I've got troops stationed on the planet, just waiting for the drop ship to train up.

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And done. 1 Heavy Assault Battalion would've done the job, though I had 4 ready so I used them.

Not much else to say. 1279 of the 3285 crew remained which got me a size 6 missile design that isn't much different than my own. 7 of the modules are damaged and it would be decades before I had a yard to repair them. It's got more engineering that it needs but not enough to fix battle damage.

It seems size doesn't matter for scrapping it. That would be the only sane thing to do with it. It's so big my tugs could only move it at 2km/s and it's orbitting a colony cost 0 planet.

Though, I think I'll try out the less sane and very cheaty option of transferring it back and try boarding it again.  ;D
« Last Edit: April 05, 2011, 04:12:21 PM by Ziusudra »
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2011, 05:30:23 PM »
Though, I think I'll try out the less sane and very cheaty option of transferring it back and try boarding it again.  ;D

Whoops, do that enough and you kill all the crew at which point you get division by zero errors and can't capture the ship.  :-[

Oh well, time to let my orbital weapon platforms rip apart.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2011, 07:41:17 PM »
Damage to orbital habitats raises an interesting question. Given the crazy size of habs, is there any real way of repairing them?
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2011, 10:21:26 PM »
You can't repair armor without a shipyard with the capacity. So, the short answer is no.

If a ship has enough maintenance supplies, it can repair components. These needed 400 to repair the modules, they had 15. 1 Maintanence Storage Bay should provide enough, though.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2011, 10:47:30 AM »
You can't repair armor without a shipyard with the capacity. So, the short answer is no.

If a ship has enough maintenance supplies, it can repair components. These needed 400 to repair the modules, they had 15. 1 Maintanence Storage Bay should provide enough, though.

Perhaps you could build PDCs with sufficient carrier capacity to hold the entire hab.  You can repair armor with carriers now.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2011, 01:07:45 PM »
You mean like 25 million tons of hangar capacity? :P

2.5 million BP just to fix some armour on a lousy orbital habitat?
« Last Edit: April 06, 2011, 01:11:32 PM by Shadow »
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2011, 01:16:32 PM »
Shadow ninja'd me:

For smaller habs, maybe. For this hab, you would need 25,040 hanger decks, 2,556 crew quarters, 2,550,260 BP, 1,878,000 vendarite, 645,113 duranium, 25,560 mercassium and a bit of neutronium and corbomite in 10,584 sections.

But, even for a hab with a single module you'd still need 25,869 BP and 18,825 vendarite. It makes more sense to me to just scrap damaged habs and build new ones.
 

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Re: How to salvage 25039950 ton wreck
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2011, 03:05:45 PM »
The last time I checked any ship could repair its own armor.  The benifit of being in the carrier is that the carriers damage control rating and supplies can be applied to the repairs.  You do have to go in manually and tell them what to repair in either case.

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