Newbie Repair question - Page 2

Dracus · #11 May 12th, 2001, 07:14 PM

He is right, You can not repair something from a higher tech level then you have or from a type of tech you can never develop.
tech. You capture a ship That has Crystal tech and you can not gain that tech then You can not repair the damaged area's of that ship that use that tech. You can repair the engines as long as they are not from a level you have not researched yet. When i capture ships that will not gain my anything by breaking them down. I add them to my fleets and use them until they get damaged. I will then either trade them to my allies for other ships or give them off as a gift to an allie.
That way I don't continue paying for a damaged ship. (ps. I rarely ever scrap a ship for any reason.)

ZzZ · #12 May 12th, 2001, 07:18 PM

@ Vesuvius

Does the ship have that wrench-symbol? You haven't answered to that yet.

ZzZ

ZzZ · #13 May 12th, 2001, 07:33 PM

Is there no way to analyze the alien ship ... and gather the new/higher developed/unique tech from it? Even with intelligence projects or something?

Would be interesting. I only know that you can't trade a unique tech ... although it's possible to make good deals when offering a unique tech to a neutral race ... let's say you offer your Massive Shield Depleter for 10.000 minerals in return ... and the Cynarra Holdings will give you the 10k minerals every turn although they never receive the tech ...

I know .. this is exploiting the game. I just found it out accidentally because in one game I tried to strengthen the CH against the Phong (I was in war with the yellow bastards) but they always stayed at the same tech level.

ZzZ

jc173 · #14 May 12th, 2001, 10:50 PM

Yes you can break down a ship and analyze its components and it will give you research bonuses for the technologies that the ship contains. You can't acquire racial or unique techs this way though.

Vesuvius · #15 May 13th, 2001, 04:50 AM

Ya, it had the wrench and the station had the repair symbol...and it was my own ship design.

Didn't get a chance to try to duplicate it, and have moved on to another game. If the situation comes up i'll test the ship before the repair yard thing again.

Thanks guys!

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- Ves