Fighter maintenance and repair

[Mormota (OP)]

So the mothership needs to have a damage control module?

[Charlie Beeler]

So the mothership needs to have a damage control module?

No, but it does help.  Absolute minimum is a hanger and engineering enough to provide the required maintenance supplies.

[Yonder]

So the mothership needs to have a damage control module?

When you design a ship it will have a Damage Control number assigned to it. Maintenance Facilities Engineering Sections (thanks Charlie) are multi-purpose equipment that lower breakdown chance, come with Maintenance Supplies, and provide a small amount of damage control, so just normal maintenance will allow repairing at a slow speed (and that may be sufficient for repairing light damage to small fighters).

The various types of Damage Control just increase the Damage Control ability of the ship, but they do so at a much higher rate than Maintenance Facilities Engineering Sections.

[Charlie Beeler]

Just a point of clarity and is not complete.

Maintenance Facilities are gound installations for maintaining ships in orbit, as long as there are the required minerals in the colonies stockpile.

Maintenance Modules are ship components that allow ships to function as Maintenance Facilities when in orbit of a colony that has the required minerals stockpile.

Engineering Sections are ship components that reduce maintenance failure chances, provide a limited storage of maintenance supplies and can use maintenance supplies for damage control to repair damage.

Damage Control are ship components that provide a higher rating for repairs.

[Girlinhat]

Just what do damage control modules do?  Cost less supplies per repair job?

[Panopticon]

They allow for faster repairs if I recall correctly, on the level of hours or minutes instead of days. Mostly useful if you have a speed advantage over an enemy obviously.

[sloanjh]

They allow for faster repairs if I recall correctly, on the level of hours or minutes instead of days. Mostly useful if you have a speed advantage over an enemy obviously.

If you look at the damage control rating (speed of repairs), you'll see it goes up something like 10 per damage control, but only 1 per engineering.

John