We have heard many great things about the repair and items system. My question is during a fight will we have time to do all of the wonderful things? Once a Constellation starts taking damage in a fight, it seems to have about 1-2 minutes before we are dust.asked by Voidhunter

The goal would be to have the repair system and running around doing stuff in the bigger ships have some effect and it really all kind of a balance job. So right now I think the bigger ships like the Constellation and the Retaliator in combat we haven't fully balanced that and they probably get destroyed and damaged a little too quickly for what they really should be able to do. We need to work, and we are working, on the balancing that, we haven't finished out the damage stuff we haven't implemented the repair stuff fully yet so that will also have some impact, because as you're taking damage if you're going around, managing to sort of patch up and repair things, then you're sort of putting back your damage and keeping your ship active longer. So yes maybe if you don't run around and you're taking lots of damage your ship goes up in two minutes, but if you managing to seal the leaks or shut down a fire in a certain area of corridor or something, then the ship can last for longer or even maybe last through the fight.So that's still an ongoing task as we roll out the repair system and the item system, which will be down the road here. We're quite far along on the item system 2.0 and a bunch of the functionality like the interaction, which is a question here later about, so I'll save that answer for that then. We need to balance the multi-crew ship experience, so it is definitely more enhanced when you and your friends are playing and you have someone's flying, someone's in a turret, and someone's running around putting out fires for instance. The likelihood is you'll last more than 1 or 2 minutes if you are doing that.