Ships repair overtime, there is no quick repair option at this point.

Repairing is very slow...and worse if you make a custom and make that trait even worse!!  I had a big fight with pirates and my ship won it with 1hp...at 1hp/turn back it took 63 turns to be fully healed..ok well 62.  I docked it at a planet and the shipyard, it all healed the same.  This is something they will need to work on.

It would be nice if the ships got more HP back when they are docked in shipyards, maybe 2 or 3 HP/turn.

A military starbase should also be able to repair ships in range, maybe with a repair drone hanger once you unlock hull repair systems.

I'm playing a custom race with poor repair rate and dense ships. I thought that the extra space the dense ships attribute gives would even out the poor repair rate attribute. That is, avoid damage with extra defence modules so I don't need to repair after battle.

Turns out that's a horrible idea.

My armed survey ship (16,0,0 attack, 6-6-6 defence, 189 hp) only just survived taking out a pirate base (3,3,3 attack, 3,3,3 defence) with a single hit point left. So then it heals at the rate of 1hp/turn. Total estimated time to repair? 188 turns! Time to build the same ship again? 2 turns.

So repair is useless for me. It just makes sense to rebuild the ship and decommission the damaged one.

It would be nice if starbases could repair ships at the same rate they build. It would make ships feel less like disposable canon fodder. Especially survey ships which gain bonuses over time.

FAST REPAIR (like GC2)

Did you know that upgrading a ship fully restores HPs?

Make a minor change to the ships design (minimize upgrade cost) ... Upgrade ... 1 turn .. full HP

Totally agree this makes the most logical sense .... I would hate it though

I think ships should be able to "fortify", like units in Civilization can, which speeds up their healing. Maybe takes 8 to 10 turns where they cannot move/are docked at a starport to repair. In that time, they are sitting ducks with reduced weapon/defense maybe, or it should only be done near a starbase. However, I think there should be a faster way of repairing without spending money. Would make the game better IMO. Same for upgrades. I do not constantly use my shipyards but shut them down often. In that time, maintainence could be done, autoupgrading existing ships over several rounds.

I haven't even tried repairing a ship in months. As far as I know, ships repair at 1 point per turn no matter where you send them. In GC2 you could put them in a planet's orbit and they would repair at (I think) 6 points per turn.

Does anyone know for certain if putting a ship in orbit makes it repair faster, and if so, how much per turn?

1 point per turn is just ridiculous - major damage to a big ship is unrepairable because it soaks you for maintenance for 50+ turns while being pretty much unusable.

Workshop will come in the first (major) patch after release.

I thought of this aswell. There should be faster variant of a single ship repair if you "lock it down" like in Civilization, and starbase modules (e.g. for military starbases) to increase repair. And a module to create "fleet repair ships", "Mobile Tender" sort of thing. This will add an additional level of strategy to the game.

I've unlocked the technical support ships which supposedly repair ships but the problem is their fecking unarmed!

I am guessing no one plays the Iconian or a custom race with their tech tree. Pick up healing hulls and you never have to worry about your survey ship's hps again. Late game you can get living ships to boost healing even more, along with no ship maintenance. 

I would argue that race with suped up healing does not make the base system correct.