Repairs

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-	''Stress'' is indicated by a rising red bar on the left side of the '''''Equipped Items''''' window. Completely maxing out the stress bar will cause damage to your tool. (This is hard with the default tools, and requires some very well-timed clicking). Damage is represented in the same box as stress. If the damage bar gets full too, the tool will be broken, and must be repaired at a '''Sharepoint''' before it can be used again.	+	''Stress'' is indicated by a rising red line on the left side of the '''''Equipped Items''''' window. If this line reaches the top, damage will occur to your tool. (This is hard with the default tools.) Damage is represented in the same box as stress as a fat red bar (instead of the line representing stress). If the damage bar reaches the top, the tool will be broken, and must be repaired at a '''Sharepoint''' before it can be used again.
	===Quality===		===Quality===

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Revision as of 05:00, 24 March 2006

Contents 1 Repairs 1.1 Damage Types 1.2 Targeting 1.3 Basic Tools 1.4 Repairing 1.4.1 Hint: Two Hands for beginners 1.5 Stress 1.6 Quality 1.7 Charges

Repairs

Damage Types

Before you start repairing anything, you need to assess the repair job at hand. When you mouseover a repair job, selection brackets and at least one status bar will appear. The status bars represent:

• Contamination (Orange bar, biohazard symbol)
• Electrical Damage (Red bar, lightning bolt icon)
• Electronic Damage (Green bar, interconnected spheres icon)
• Mechanical Damage (Blue bar, cog icon)
• Structural Damage (Purple bar, pillar icon)

Targeting

In order to repair something, you must first move close to it, and highlight the repair job withe your mouse. It should display selection brackets, and a few status bars. Left click to bring up the pie menu, and click Target (three converging arrows).

In order to gain an AP reward, you must fully repair all damage types of a repairjob.

Basic Tools

Starting out in the tower, you will have a Basic Build Kit, Basic Mech Kit and Bio Sponge, to repair Structural, Mechanical and Contamination damage respectively.

To equip the tools, open up the Assets menu (second from the top) and then left click the appropriate tool to bring up a pie menu. Select Equip (hand holding a blue object) and you should see the Equipped Items menu pop up. If not, you can open it by clicking the topmost icon on the left.

Alternately, you can simply open the Equipped Items menu, and drag a tool from the Assets window.

For tools beyond the starting gear, check the List of Tools

Repairing

With your Equipped Items menu open, you should see four slots, each of which represents a sub-tool (Screwdriver for Basic Mech Kit, Crowbar for Basic Build Kit and BioSponge for Bio Sponge.) Click the tool, and watch as the repair timer (light blue status bar behind the tool name) move from right to left. If you have the right tool for the job, you should see the appropriate damage type diminish slightly.

Repeat, until the damage type has been cleared (the object you're repairing should visually change). Then move on to the next damage type by equipping the appropriate tool and doing the same.

Hint: Two Hands for beginners

Note: tools in the left hand no longer function, and a note in the patch notes says that this will no longer work. The best way to approach repairs is to equip an appropriate tool in each hand, by manually opening Equipped Items, and dragging the tools from the Assets window. Then, you can alternately click each tool, and the repair process is twice as fast.

Note, however, that some tools may require two hands. When you equip such a tool, like the Multicleaner, both hands are shown holding the tool. In such a case, if you equip any other single-handed tool, the two-handed tool with be unequipped (from the other hand, obviously).

Stress

Stress is indicated by a rising red line on the left side of the Equipped Items window. If this line reaches the top, damage will occur to your tool. (This is hard with the default tools.) Damage is represented in the same box as stress as a fat red bar (instead of the line representing stress). If the damage bar reaches the top, the tool will be broken, and must be repaired at a Sharepoint before it can be used again.

Quality

NOT implented yet

The trade-off skills you use might affect the quality of the repair. When the quality is low, the service hatch will be more vulnerable to damages.

Charges

Note: Charges are being redesigned, so currently in the beta test, no item is consuming charges.

If you're using an item that has a limited number of charges, then the green bar on the right side of the Equipped Items window indicates the remaining charges. For example, the Bio Sponge has 150 charges, and use 1 everytime you use its Biosponge function. An item that has run out of charges can likewise be recharged at a Sharepoint