repairing ships about space-tycoon HOT 3 CLOSED

Good question.

Free repairs would be easier for the players because they don't have to figure out if they should be using the money for something else.

Paid repairs have a weird edge-case where if you repair your ship you have lowered your net worth. (You have less money but the ship didn't increase in value/worth.) This feels weird to me.
This could be solved by making ships worth proportional to their HP. But I'm not sure if I like the idea that your net worth gets lower because your fleet took a bunch of hits in a fight.

One disadvantage of free repairs could be that people can attack others and then recover without any monetary cost. But I think that wouldn't be an issue if we make sure that it's not easy to repair a lot of ships at once. Either by requiring a shipyard for repairs or by slower repair speed.

Ultimately, imho, there just has to be something that makes sure that people can't repair everything too quickly. The bottleneck/limitation can be:

• paid repairs
• slower repair speed
• shipyards repair one ship at a time
• ??? (something else)

I think we only need one bottleneck/limitation.
Currently, I like the idea of having repair as a command for shipyards which means that you can repair one at a time by each shipyard. And because of this limitation the repairs could be free and reasonably fast.

I do like the idea of making the shipyard-capable ships important for the overall gameplay. I imagine that it could create exciting situations and strategies - e.g. having more shipyards, moving your shipyards, destroying enemy shipyards, etc.

Sorry for the wall of text.

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Suggestion: add 'healer' ship class.

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Solution:

• Ships have small passive regeneration.
• Ships also have a command to quickly repair themselves at some price.

Reasoning:

• Cargo ships can depend on passive regen, which shifts focus of combat ships on other combat ships.

Other notes:

• Shipyards repairing other ships: more complex implementation, difficult planning (shipyards are usually slower, so the ships that want to get repaired have to cooperate, and to plan to not wait for it).
• It is undesirable to make attacking way too damaging as that could make the game end with a stalemate.

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