The Engineering or ENG workstation allows you to see your exact damage status, and prioritize repairs to damaged systems.

ENG: Repair teams

There are four repair teams, represented by the four boxes at the top of the screen. Each team can repair one component at a time.

ENG: System View

The main view on the ENG Workstation is a wireframe representation of the ship and its systems. There’s a list of systems overlaid on the wireframe graphic. Clicking on each system will display a close up of the system. When systems are damaged they will be shown in yellow for medium damage, and red for off-line. Off-line systems will severely affect the performance of the ship.

Note: in Arcade mode systems never go completely off-line, even though they show up red. This means you never lose control of the ship or weapons. However you can still be severely damaged and blown up!

In the bottom of the screen is the selected component status. The largest box is a moving graph of output. The next box is the temperature, and the last is the repair status.

In the top right of the screen is the status display, these has four bars:

Normally your engineer will automatically assign teams to repair damaged systems. However you can manually assign a team by using the mouse to drag a system name into their box. They will stop what they’re doing and start repairing the system you selected. Or you can use the cursor keys and keys 1-4 to assign teams 1-4 to different systems.

Note: more than one team may repair a system. The more teams you have repairing a system the faster it will be repaired.

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