Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This was mostly already suggested in this topic, but I feel that we need to think about it again.

With the current fitting requirements, it is almost impossible to use the Remote Hull Repair Systems on any ship. Even Small versions take up so much PG on a BC, for instance, that there is hardly any PG and CPU left for something else. This should be changed. And the cap requirements for them are excruciating. Even one a Guardian with 2 large Energy Transfers on it, the cap goes dry.

Also, Hull Repair bots aka Hull Repair Drones are overdue.

And ships with a Remote Hull Repair Bonus are needed. Yes, the Remote Hull Repair is not used often, but when it is, it is a major pain in the back, because you have practically no range, no cap, no repair amount and no fitting left for other things.

I think that hull repair modules were made inefficient intentionally: hull represents critical damage that is dealt to the structure of the ship through armor and thus should be very hard to fix (some may say that duct tape and hammer are enough for minmatar ships). But with Rubicon hull (and armor for shield tankers) repairing was made much easier with mobile depots. Use them to fit local reppers and stop whining.

Can you show me how I can fit a Hull Repairer on my True Sansha Energy Neutralizing battery and how I can board the battery so that I can activate the module and rep the structure? I'm totally unaware of that this was possible.

That left aside, I didn't say that the cycle time should be reduced or the repair amount increased: it just needs to be put in line with the rest of the repairing system. At the moment, it's more like a double punishment if you receive hull damage to your POS modules (and the RHRS isn't really used for something else) or your fighter bombers or Scaps: You have to repair the tiny bits of structure on your mods in order to get them back online and it makes the ship completely vulnerable because you can hardly fit any defense on it, let alone offense.

Nice fitting, and it proves my point completely: you are nothing but a flying clay pigeon.

How is this a problem? The hull you have to repair is tiny. Unless someone with fighterbombers trolled you and punched your 99% resistant mods into half-hull, the amount of time to fix the hull on a single pos mod should be pretty insignificant next to all armor repping you'll be doing (even though its bonused). As for defending your hull-repping ship, you can anchor and online additional mods to cover you, you can fit buffer and some WCS, you can do whatever and use any t1 ship. Even if your pos is reinforced it you can rep the armor by shield hugging and then its only a minute or two max to repair and online a few gun turrets. If hostiles are watching your RF'ed pos so closely that you can't rep a few guns, then those guns don't deserve to be repped unless you get some friends to cover you. You can also fit capital hull reps on a carrier and shield hug if its so hard.

When you first posted about making hull reps more viable, it sounded alot like you wanted it to be a viable active tanking system.

It is that way by design, so that logi can't keep things like the new mobile cyno jammer alive. Devs even said so in the recent blog.