Repair inconsistency leading to huge exploits

[FulcrumA]

Game version: 0.C-30348

Operating system: Win7

Tiles or curses: Tiles

Mods active: More Survival Tools, Stats Through Skill, Vehicle Additions Pack, Tanks and Other Vehicles, Boats, Icecoon's Arsenal, Filthy Clothing, Makeshift Items Mod, More Buildings, No Flaming Weapons, Disable NPC Needs, No Antique Firearms, No Fictional Guns, NPC Traits, Extended Realistic Guns.

Expected behavior

Vehicle parts and items can be repaired on the basis of same rules and requirements.

Actual behavior

Many vehicle parts have different requirements when repaired as items using soldering irons/welders and when installed as part of vehicles. Some items require glue or other such things in one case but can be easily soldered/welded in the other. Additionally, vehicle-installed parts require absolutely no resources to repair beyond charges of the welder while repairing same parts by hand uses plastic/metal (usually in form of scrap). Some items can be only repaired while disconnected from the vehicle, others only when installed.

Repair data for every item/part should be held by the part entry and all attempts to repair such should consult this single particular place. Otherwise one way of repairing things is clearly and unfairly superior than the other.

[HeadWar]

For extra credit, make vehicle repair use the same principle as other repairs, with a percentage chance of success or damage, and multiple attempts, rather than just a fixed time to automatically repair.

[CoroNaut]

If this goes through then all items should probably be able to have the reinforced tag meaning that all vehicle parts could be reinforcable which would be fantastic.

[rubenpd]

also repairing a military composite ram requires 3 mechanics, repairing a military composite armor plating require 5, and you build both parts with same spare part

[Asmageddon]

@HeadWar What about setting repair time to expected repair time, rather than fully random, as a compromise, e.g. if it's 10% chance to repair and 1m per attempt, set it to 10m, or to the ~6.6m that are expected on average.

But alas, basing vehicle part repair on underlying item repair, would be a really sizeable change to make.

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