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EARTHDATE: January 17, 2010

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SETTING UP A REPAIR YARD

by Hazed

For POs, adding a repair yard is a simple matter of flagging a location with the Ship Repair property. You can then do your best to ensure that all the commodities needed for repairs are available in your stockpiles. When ships are repaired on your planet, if the goods come from the exchange, then the treasury gets the money, and your stocks are reduced - but if the goods are sourced elsewhere, you get zilch. So it's well worth setting things up so you have everything needed readily available, and then encouraging battered ships to make your world their first port of call.

Since ships which are registered to your planet will get a discount on their repair bill, it's worth you encouraging people to buy their ships from you - because then you're guaranteed the repair custom later. (That's on top of the other benefits that registered ships bring to the efficiency of your exchanges, of course.)

Here's the schedule of what commodities are needed for repairing the various bits of a ship:


Engines

For each point of damage the following commodities are required (amounts are in tons):

Alloys - 2
Monopoles - 1
Xmetals - 1


Shields

For each point of damage the following commodities are required (amounts are in tons):

Crystals - 2
Lanzarik - 1
Xmetals - 1


Computers

For each point of damage the following commodities are required (amounts are in tons), subject to level multipliers:

Monopoles - 3
Semiconductors - 4
Nanos - 3
Biochips - 5
Firewalls - 1
Alloys - 3

Level multipliers mean the commodities needed increase for each extra level:

From level 1 to 2 - x 1
From level 2 to 3 - x 1
From level 3 to 4 - x 5
From level 4 to 5 - x 10
From level 5 to 6 - x 30
From level 6 to 7 - x 50

For example, the monopoles needed to repair a level 5 computer which has been reduced by damage to a level 3 or below would be 3 x 5 x 10 = 150 tons.


Clearly, fighting is going to be a rich being's hobby!

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