Preventing Repair?

[Diazo]

I was wondering if there was some way to keep a unit from being repaired.

I know there is a cap set on engineers not assisting large projects that can be set, but I am not aware of anything like that for repair.

What has happened is I managed to capture a Mk IV ion in a border system so I am keeping it alive to help with my defenses, which include a fort nearby.

The Ion cannon took damage in the last attack and now the for is repairing it. The problem is that at 40+million of each resource, the fort is tanking my economy at -20,000 of both crystal and metal.

I've currently set the fort to low power mode, but that's a large chunk of my defences offline.

Is there some trick I'm missing or does this functionality not exist?

D.

edit: Actually, my perfect solution to this would be a repair cap where you can set "this unit only gets repaired at 1000m or c per second" type thing, but I know that's new code.

[Nodor]

Can you move the fort out of repair range?

Also, I think the "don't assist large queues" logic works for engineers on repair values.  But that logic may not extend to forts.

[Wanderer]

Yeah, you want to adjust your value for 'don't assist large construction items'.  CTRLs menu, center column, last value.

[Volatar]

Don't Assist Large Projects default setting makes it so that Engies don't repair Mercs, so it does have some effect on repair.

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, it works on repair too.

[Diazo]

Alright, thank you.

I'll look into it.

D.

[TechSY730]

That reminds me, the assist cutoff still does not take into account that repairing is 10x cheaper than initial construction, right?

[TechSY730]

OK, I just duplicated this. Fortresses ignore the auto-assist cutoff. Have not tried MRSs yet.

I can give a save if you want, but this sounds like one for Mantis.