What is the point of having a 850 man crew if they quit making repairs after three times? I think they should be able to continue to make repairs indefinitely - but at a limited pace say 1 repair every 4 or 5 min game time.
I just had to sit in a totally de-masted Victory with zero repairs and 838 surviving crew for 20 minutes while a couple frigats finished us off from behind.
At 60/1 compression 20 min would be TWENTY HOURS IRL
It was unpleasant - IRL we would have done SOMETHING with those 20 hours!
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Couldn't we have a gain back of 1 repair ever 4 hours IRL - or ever 4 min in game time.
Let's encourage those frigat captains to "get busy"