What about just giving the recently repaired ship a stacking debuff lasting 30secs which lowers its stats by X% each time it's repaired so when you're chain-repairing ships they get weaker and weaker until it's useless.
That would make a repair useless. I'd rather put it back anywhere on the map and wait for self-repair. Decreasing stats is not an option.
If you build a proxy yard, it would be cool, if it only can do one thing: Repairing or Building. When you build a ship, you cant repair. If you repair, you have to wait until the repair is complete and THEN you can start construction.
Also the repair rate of vessels could be done /3 per time. So the ship will sit in the yard unable to do anything while the enemy fires.
A cool feature would be this:
Hot-Dock for dominion shipyards:
A dominion ship can dock onto the shipyard giving it turret abilities. The shield regeneration and hull repair rate is increased by a large amount, but the ship cant move.
While the ship is fused with the station, it can be attacked and destroyed, but the station will give the ship enormous regen-rates. This could be a good "frontline" tactic, a little more offensive turtling so to say.
In order to hot-do(g)ck, you need hot-docking-places that are only available after research and building them out.
--> A yard could be a pretty good turret. Disadvantage:
In order to repair your ships, you MUST set them into such a hot-dock. There is do other way to repair them.
So, you get back to the shipyard, get into the hot-dock and will have an increased repair and regen-rate, BUT not such "instant" like we have now. Because this is a pretty heavy penalty, you get the ability, to fire from such a hot-dock and you have more than one...
Advantage:
- The instant-repair is no longer a flaw and enemy ships which are short on lifepoints will die... even with increased regen.
- You can repair 4 or 6 or 8 ships at once (No road to disney land)
- While hot-dock is active, you cant build ships or the construction is halted
