Star Trades Help Manual

Damage and Repair

Your Cargo Ships will sustain damage over time from normal wear and use, or from being attacked by pirates. Pirate ships will also sustain use damage, and will usually be damaged in a ransack attempt, especially if the victim has Phasers installed or if an alliance armada is patrolling nearby.

Pirate ships can be attacked once per hour by any alliance armada that has been instructed to search and target that specific pirate ship. The damage sustained from an armada attack depends on the firepower of the armada ships.

Taking damage will not affect the use of your ship unless it reaches the maximum damage limit of 5,000 damage, at which point it will go critical and explode, costing you the ship and all of its cargo. The Fleet Status will warn you of ships approaching the limit.

You can repair damage at a Spaceport. Repair prices are fixed by the STA across all Spaceports in the Kentaran Galaxy. The cost to repair a unit of damage depends on the amount of equipment installed on the ship.

Damage can be prevented enroute between Star Systems if the ship's Engineer has sufficient training.

Rename a Ship
To rename a ship, direct it to a Spaceport. The option to rename it will appear at the bottom of the screen for doing business at that Spaceport. The cost of renaming a ship is fixed by the STA at 100 credits.

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