I often found myself with broken gear and not knowing where or how to get it fixed. I figured that in a world with so many robots, there would definitely be robots programmed to fix anything that is broken, including the player’s gear.

This mod adds 14 “Mr Handy”-style robots to the game in various locations (near most major settlements) that wander around. Each is called “Mike the Mechanic”. Each has a “coin operated repair function”, meaning that when you click on them, the repair menu appears.

http://princessstomper.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/a-repair-bot/

If this works OK, I'll duplicate it for Fallout 3, so please let me know if there's any "feedback" to be had.

Very handy. No pun intended.

However, as it stands, the robots repair skill isn't high enough to get a huge advantage, unless you intended it this way.

I gotta agree, while it's convenient, 40 is pretty low. I upped it*. Otherwise a fun idea.

You could maybe get someone to make you some custom blue RobCo (like the RobCo jumpsuit +repair) skins for the Mr. Handy's, that'd be pretty nifty.

*Strike that. I can't actually figure out how to change it. Huh. Does it scale with level or something? Scripts scare the hell out of me, my GECK skill is limited to changing numbers.

*Ok, the script is just for dialogue it seems, where is are the Skill values? I am such a nub.

*edit 3, D'oh! Nm. I figured it out, /facepalm.

Skins would be rad, as I was saying. Maybe get that voice guy to do some custom dialogue. Ahem.

*Ed 4* Ok, no, I was wrong again. :facepalm:

Heheh, I think that's adding rather more work to the mod than I expected.
I'll look into upping the robot's repair skill.

Another idea for the bot repair skill would be to always have them a certain percentage lower than the player's skill. Maybe up it a little for repeated patronage

If it's lower, then there's no reason to use it! Personally, I reckon that the skill should stay constant at a high value - 75, perhaps - so that they only become useless if the player puts points into their repair skill.
This is a neat idea, though! Considering how I plan for the next game I start to be one with a character who doesn't have repair tagged, I'm sure this will be both immensely useful and neat to have.

I figured the player would be using the bots because he/she didn't have the repair parts. Thus the skill penalty.

ooops - I've had a crazy week. I'll see about updating this at the weekend. Thanks for the feedback all.

That's a good point about the low skill level being a "penalty" for not using crafting materials. What does everyone think of that?

I like the mod, princess. I'll agree that the low repair level is a bit of a hindrance. Some thoughts:
-Maybe a character with sufficient Science skill can rewire the bot to up his repair skill
-Or maybe he can offer 2 or 3 tiers of service, with higher repair skill coming at a higher price. My current character has abysmal repair skill but would be willing to pay a premium to get his weapons up to top condition (i.e. paying for convenience).

I think tiers would be overcomplicating it. You can either do it yourself or pay someone else to do it.

I figured Intelligence governs the repair skill, though I couldn't see any specific way to increase the repair ability. I've therefore increased the robot's Intelligence to 10 and reuploaded it as version 1.1 - hopefully that will improve things.

The old version is stil available for those who prefer the robot to be underpowered.