Why do my engies not automatically repair merc's?

[Volatar]

The pleasant side effect of unlocking the buffed Harvestors in my latest FS campaign is that of rolling in resources.

So, to use these up I have been building lots of mercs for defense. However, I have been annoyed that my engineers are not repairing my rather expensive mercs automatically. Why is this, and is there any way to fix it?

[Wanderer]

CTRLS menu.  engineers do not assist large projects, center column, lowest value.  Change to 0.  They'll fix anything then.

[Nodor]

-100K a second later, as the mark 3 engineers start in on the Superfortress.

[Volatar]

CTRLS menu.  engineers do not assist large projects, center column, lowest value.  Change to 0.  They'll fix anything then.

Thanks. Somehow I missed that.

[Bognor]

-100K a second later, as the mark 3 engineers start in on the Superfortress.

Fortunately all fortresses are immune to repair 

[Minotaar]

-100K a second later, as the mark 3 engineers start in on the Superfortress.

Fortunately all fortresses are immune to repair 

No, they aren't 
500 is a good value for that field if you just want to repair mercs (they are 480/s at most)

[TechSY730]

-100K a second later, as the mark 3 engineers start in on the Superfortress.

Fortunately all fortresses are immune to repair 

No, they aren't 
500 is a good value for that field if you just want to repair mercs (they are 480/s at most)

They are immune to repair, but not immune to construction assistance.

[Minotaar]

Well, okay, SUPERfortresses are immune to repair, but the others aren't.  And the normal forts have a 417/s metal cost, so they don't get autorepaired normally (Don't know for sure though, I always play with the setting on 500 not 400) 

[TechSY730]

This disussion reminds me, the auto-assistance cutoff is not taking into consideration that repairing is 10x cheaper than constructing.

So those mercenaries, while may be 400/s to build at base constuction rate, only drain 40/s at base repair rate.
Fixing this would also fix all sorts of other problems, like home command stations not being auto repaired under sane auto-assist cutoffs.

However, this would make broken golems harder to control, as you repair them, not construct them. That will need to be looked at.