Repairing engines and other non-weapon parts & other ide

[Clear Air Turbulence]

I think there should be a way to repair your damaged equipment, although it shouldn't be particularly easy. It's annoying to drop 20000 Rin on a 500MW engine and have it reduced to 400MW soon after from a badly timed shield failure while fighting enemies that have damaging attacks.

I can see a couple of options. The first, and most obvious, is to have Tinkers do it. To make it interesting, you could have it so that having a Tinker repair your engine has a small chance of making it slightly more powerful than it was before repairs, though if you did that you would probably want to add the option to have a Tinker work on an undamaged engine for a cost and have the same chance of a small improvement so that people wouldn't have to deliberately try and get their engines damaged to get that benefit.

The second would be to have repairs available at any drydock that has a tech level high enough - a good rule of thumb would be that if a dock can install an item 2 tech levels above your damaged item, they can repair it.

A third option would be to have a barrel of advanced repairing nanomachines available as an item to loot or order from a trading post. These should be able to repair armor or items up to a certain tech level. For fun, you could make it so that giving a few of these barrels to Tinkers for Custom Work would cause them to assemble a random item.

[Arisaya]

You can use longzu spheres to repair anything but non-energy weapons and armor.

They're really awesome- they can also enhance non-weapons to 120% (so you can get a 1.2GW hyperion reactor).

When upgrading reactors though, it IS a random chance thing, so it really sucks if you use 10 spheres and all you do get get refueled and your reactor is still damaged and stuck at 800MW. Its similar to the heliotrope fuel.

Also the domina power ingenuity (just raid a couple sung slave camps, take the slaves, and dump them off at a sisters station, and you get all the usable domina powers in a single go) has a random chance of upgrading or repairing one of your items.

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I do like your tinkerer idea, especially for early-game situations where you don't have longzu spheres.

Also I agree dockscreens should be able to repair at least some of the more basic items. I mean its kind of sad (well, really sad) if ringers can't fix your damaged IMX laser turret...

[Clear Air Turbulence]

I tried Ingenuity for the first time recently (I had a bunch of coffins from a slaver transport I blew up for a mission) and it didn't do anything. Wasn't sure what it was supposed to do, so I'll re-try it.

[Arisaya]

I tried Ingenuity for the first time recently (I had a bunch of coffins from a slaver transport I blew up for a mission) and it didn't do anything. Wasn't sure what it was supposed to do, so I'll re-try it.

I think the base % chance for nothing happening is 20% (Something like that), and that for every device (including armor) installed, the rest of that 80% is divided amongst it. So if it tries to upgrade something that is already upgraded, it will do nothing, thus the more upgraded equipment you have, the higher the chance of nothing happening is.