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ships help: engineering

An engineer is perhaps the most important person on a ship.
they keep it from exploding into a massive fireball.
battle station, or factory component repair center, for that.
there are a few things the engineer must do:
1. Keep the weapons charged.
He or she must ensure the weapon arrays stay charged at all times.
You can do this by typing weapons, to see the powers they are at and:
wc: To recharge the weapon array.
During a battle, you can also type the battle command. This launches a system that every 5 seconds will tell you the percentage of each weapon bank and also how many enemies are nearby.
You can view a shorter version of the weapons command by typing weapons s, or weapons short.
2. Configure the mounts.
See sHelp pre-flight checks.
3. Reload the warhead banks.
It is the engineers job to ensure the warhead banks, from which weapon rooms draw, are full.
you will have needed to insert some ammunition boxes, bought in various places, in order for this to work. type reload.
4. Keep the ship repaired.
This is done using the repair command. Either repair main, for the hull, or repair def, for the defensive armour,
5. Keep an eye on the shields.
While the pilot can do this, a responsible engineer will ensure that the shields are kept up.
6. Repair the components of the ship.
For this, you absolutely will 100 percent want to train these skills as high as they can go for your Rank:
proficiency of ship repairs, makes repairs go faster!
knowledge of ship structures, means you can move through a ship's structure more quickly
To repair the components of the ship, first enter the ship's structure.
type hatch.
Only one engineer may go into the ship's structure at any time.
Climb through the structure using the hatch up and hatch down commands.
Type repair when you are in the right section to repair that component.
At any time, from the structure of the ship or in the engineering room, you can type damage to see the ships damage.
The engineer can also see a number of other items about the ship, but these are also doable by the pilot and so are not covered in this file.
Cy-larkans are said to be incredible at engineering when compared to the other races, simply due to their ability to physicly interface with the ship itself.
Note on hatches:
the pilot is able to customise which direction the superstructure is made, for example, if you have an engineering room at the bottom of the ship, it would be logical that the superstructure would go up, rather than down.
They do this with the hatch-c command.
If this is the case, instead of typing hatch up, for example, you would type hatch north.

do you like to be informed periodicly of weapon status and the surrounding battle space?
The battle command will do this for you. It will read the charge level of the ship's weapons followed by the number of ships within weapons range.
Are you soloing?
No problem! By typing monitor in an engineering bay, you can have the computer announce all announcements meant for the engineering bay to the control room, as well!
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