[TC] Where the heck can I find a Repair Laser ?

[gapper4]

Title says it all. I'm spending a fortune repairing captured capital ships.

[Kor'ah]

Shift+E

There's your repair laser. It's part of your spacesuit.


I don't waste time repairing captured capitals. The time is better spent captureing more capital capital ships.

[gapper4]

lol, ya, I know about my spacesuit but many ship turrets indicate that they can mount repair lasers, and I assume ship-mounted lasers should be able to repair faster than a guy floating in space holding a pop gun

[mrbadger]

lol, ya, I know about my spacesuit but many ship turrets indicate that they can mount repair lasers, and I assume ship-mounted lasers should be able to repair faster than a guy floating in space holding a pop gun

The tractor beam, mining laser and repair laser all share the same slot. Therefore the repair laser shows as a compatible laser, even though it's not something you can buy in the game.

The only one you have is in your suit, and that can't be ejected.

[gapper4]

I see. So it doesn't exist, then. But the mobile mining laser and tractor beams do, don't they ? Too bad. I was going to capture a Boron flagship of some kind and assign it the ignominous duty of repairing other captured ships.

As you can probably tell, I hate Borons.

[scaseman]

If you are happy to have a modified tag. There are scripts to add repair lasers and factories to produce them.

[gapper4]

If you are happy to have a modified tag. There are scripts to add repair lasers and factories to produce them.

Ah, thanks, I'll look for it.

A bit OT about the "Modified" tag. I don't get it why anyone would mind it. Ok, I understand that adding cheats for things like "add money" and "add ship" to the game is considered, well, "cheating". But there is some much room for improvement in the vanilla game that a lot of mods are simply rectifying obvious problems. My fav so far is "improved boarding". The vanilla menu is horribly clunky and, if you think about it, in real life (or at least within the "real life" of a sci-fi universe), a ship's captain would simply give the board order for his Marines to go while staying focused on ships' positioning and dealing with shields. Yet, this mod will result in a "modified" tag ?

[scaseman]

I use loads of mods. I always point it out however as some people are strickly vanilla. A shame in my opinion as they miss so much of the game.


Mr Badger (see below) is quite correct. Its the price of having more options. I do keep a vanilla install for a time when I feel like uploading stats. I did have a top 100 before I started using Mods.

[mrbadger]

If you have the modified tag, you can't upload stats

[gapper4]

Guess it makes sense. I can see why including people with mods in the stats would skew the rankings. A shame, though, as many of these mods are works of beauty and truly enhance the game.

[eladan]

If you have the modified tag, you can't upload stats

Unless it's changed: You can still upload with the modified tag, but the stats won't be considered for the rankings.

[Venutian]

If you don't mind script, I'd recommend MARS. It is THE script to have for your capital ship turrets and it does come with repair drones. It doesn't repair to 100% but just for capping and selling, it's fast and works well.

[gapper4]

Thanks Venutian, I'll look into it.

[shireknight]

I earned my modified tag by a genuine mistake, I never used any scripts but I downloaded a Battlestar Galactica ship mod just because I wanted to see what the ships looked like.

I copied my entire Egosoft folder and installed the mod into that and left my vanilla copy alone but even though I took that precaution I still ended up with a modified tag

I think what happened was that both TC installations were using the same save game folder in my documents and so as soon as I typed in the there shall be wings thing it immediately gave both my vanilla and BG versions of TC the modified tag and now I'm stuck with it forever.

[scaseman]

There is a program which enables save file swapping. X3TC Save Game Manager. This may help in the future. If its any consolation I did exactly the same thing that you did and made my saves modified. But it was a blessing in disguise as I now embrace mods completely.

[kelmen]

there's also a script to utilize marines onboard to repair ship/station overtime

[Destroyer235]

I read something in the manual about being able to repair ships at shipyards.I think that would be better that sitting in space with a tiny laser taking 5 hours to repair the darn thing

[maphys]

I read something in the manual about being able to repair ships at shipyards.I think that would be better that sitting in space with a tiny laser taking 5 hours to repair the darn thing

Just dock at one, pay up and the ship is fixed. How I fix anything larger than an M3. Expensive though.

M

[Nanook]

I earned my modified tag by a genuine mistake, I never used any scripts but I downloaded a Battlestar Galactica ship mod just because I wanted to see what the ships looked like.

I copied my entire Egosoft folder and installed the mod into that and left my vanilla copy alone but even though I took that precaution I still ended up with a modified tag

I think what happened was that both TC installations were using the same save game folder in my documents and so as soon as I typed in the there shall be wings thing it immediately gave both my vanilla and BG versions of TC the modified tag and now I'm stuck with it forever.

That's not quite how it works. The *modified* tag is saved with the savegames. As long as you don't try to use the same savegame for both vanilla and modified, you only get the *modified* tag in your modified savegame. And only the modded game should generate that tag on a savegame. If you never load a vanilla savegame into the modified game, and save over it, you should have no problems. If you do get that tag starting a new game in vanilla, then your so-called 'vanilla' game isn't.

[patrick hazel]

train your marines to 100% and they will not damage the hull at all