Haveing to return to a station to do both every time your ship gets low on hull or ammo is kinda tedious... A callable Bot to perform both in space or just rearm, atleast untill Large scale Faction battles happen would be very nice to see.. maybe limit it so you have to be out of sensor range of any enemy ship..

I realize there are repair drones to repair other players with .. but it seems like no one ever carries it, thus making it practicly useless.. The Vessle would have to Dock with your ship somehow as well to rearm you.

Yay- nay ??

It might be cool to award a small amount of combat exp. to people who repair others. To make this workable, you would probably have to make it so that only group members can be repaired, and maybe even impose a limitation on how frequently one could quit/join a group, to prevent abuse of the system. Or something. There're prolly better ideas than that. But there should be an incentive to help people, at least people you're friendly to or grouped with.

I *really* like Soltis's combat XP for repairing idea. But I don't see that it would be necessary to put in too many limitations to prevent abuse. Just keep the XP gain fairly low, only give XP for repairing players (bots don't count), and of course don't give XP for repairing someone who's at 100% health. Unless the XP award was significantly higher than it should be, I don't think too many people would try to abuse this. Oh, and maybe throw in a little faction standing award too (at least if it was in a monitored sector), that would make sense.

As far as callable repair/reload bots goes, I actually disagree. It would make powerleveling by bot hunting too easy, and PvP in my experience has been too fast for a repair bot to be feasible.

just give xp for hull points repaired and not for the power of the shot.