Repair from mixed tech yard

posted on December 4th, 2010, 8:27 pm

Would it be possible to add a repair function to mixed tech yard?

It's a shipyard, can produce vessels so why should it not be possible to repair vessels. Right now i rarely see mixed tech, mostly because of the high resource cost.

If the mixed tech yard got a repair function, perhaps this would also give an impulse to the mixed tech.

posted on December 4th, 2010, 8:30 pm

Adding a repair function to a Mixed-Tech yard would be easy.

It's a shipyard, not a repair dock. They're different and being equipt for construction doesn't mean it's automatically equipt for repair. It's also a Borg-thing.

posted on December 4th, 2010, 9:20 pm

Adding a repair function to a Mixed-Tech yard would be easy.

It's a shipyard, not a repair dock. They're different and being equipt for construction doesn't mean it's automatically equipt for repair. It's also a Borg-thing.

The borg repair is because the borg have no other way to repair non-borg vessels. Construction & repair are two sides of the same coin, IMO it should be added.

[Tyler]

posted on December 4th, 2010, 9:30 pm

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Construction and repair are different activities. Typical yards are oufitted for both, Experimental yards are not and should stay that way. It would strip the Borg of something unique to them.

Borg MT yards are exclusively repair docks, the others are exclusively shipyards.

posted on December 4th, 2010, 10:07 pm

Mixed Tech yards for non_borg were designed not to have repair facilities in order to prevent using them as a first yard or substitute for a normal yard.

posted on December 4th, 2010, 10:24 pm

Mixed Tech yards for non_borg were designed not to have repair facilities in order to prevent using them as a first yard or substitute for a normal yard.

To be honest, that makes little to no sense. You don't build your first yard for repair if you cannot construct vessels yet.
Right now the only use for the mixed tech yard is mixed tech units (duh) which are rare because of the almost excessive research cost. So you have a building which is rarely/almost never used because of the high cost/long duration of research  to get to the mixed tech units.

Overall, the mixed tech yard is nearly useless. Adding the option of repair (possibly through a research/upgrade) would bring the mixed tech yard back from the dead.

[Tyler]

posted on December 4th, 2010, 10:30 pm

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In other words, make it a clone of all other yards and screw over the Borg's unique trait?

Adding repair wouldn't make it be built more often because it would still be inferior to regular yards due to the research cost and increased cost/time of ship construction that the others don't suffer from.

People build it when they want the ships it builds, that is all it's meant for and all it needs.

posted on December 4th, 2010, 11:06 pm

mixed tech is gonna be overhauled soon. so hopefully mixed tech will appear more.

personally i try to make my 3rd yard a mt yard if it has a good ship. like miranda 2 i lurve the miranda 2. edjen is also awesome.

posted on December 4th, 2010, 11:25 pm

"We're engineers and workers on this classified yard and proud to pump out the highest-tech vessels for you - we don't bother with repairing them as well!"

Elite ship builders should build ships and not waste time with repairing a beat-to-hell standard-vessel. Leave the repairs to the main yards.

[Andre27]

posted on December 5th, 2010, 1:48 am

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In other words, make it a clone of all other yards and screw over the Borg's unique trait?

Adding repair wouldn't make it be built more often because it would still be inferior to regular yards due to the research cost and increased cost/time of ship construction that the others don't suffer from.

For the Borg its a necessity or else assimilation of vessels would be futile.

The MT would still be inferior, but at least moderately useful due to the repair.

People build it when they want the ships it builds, that is all it's meant for and all it needs.

Agreed on the former, disagreed on the latter.
I realize that the developers want the game to rotate around the standard models and not the MT models.
However, unless you play with unlimited resources, the research cost/delay make the MT an empty shell.
With the option of repair perhaps the MT yard will get some real usage.

posted on December 5th, 2010, 10:51 am

However, unless you play with unlimited resources, the research cost/delay make the MT an empty shell.
With the option of repair perhaps the MT yard will get some real usage.

i disagree, the mt yards can be worth it. especially considering nice ships like miranda 2 and edjen. they are worth it.

posted on December 5th, 2010, 11:34 am

i disagree, the mt yards can be worth it. especially considering nice ships like miranda 2 and edjen. they are worth it.

Let me ask you this: how often do you see MT units in online play. Their rarity, despite the presence of some potent units, is sufficient proof that currently MT is hardly a viable option and hence an empty shell.

posted on December 5th, 2010, 12:04 pm

Let me ask you this: how often do you see MT units in online play. Their rarity, despite the presence of some potent units, is sufficient proof that currently MT is hardly a viable option and hence an empty shell.

i see them, i have used them to great effect and won with them.

i remember clearly a 3v3 on first strike where i built miranda 2s, and their solid defence was most useful for me.

i remember building dreads, and seeing my enemy building dreads.

there is a replay, a few months back, on nebula stream i think, where miranda 2s came out and tanked loads of damage.

i cant wait til i next play as klinks with a fed ally to build edjens.

mt isnt something that is done every game, but it is far from an empty shell. its a half filled shell

posted on December 5th, 2010, 12:31 pm

I'd love to see some replays with MT. Even though i check the youtube replays frequently i have not seen any matches with MT

posted on December 5th, 2010, 12:33 pm

I'd love to see some replays with MT. Even though i check the youtube replays frequently i have not seen any matches with MT

you must have missed the one with miranda 2s then. it was a couple months back i believe, on nebula stream, a 3v3.