It doesn't stack, meaning only one Hoshiko can have a repair up on the starbase. Any more and they're wasted.

That said, it's not possible to give a mass ability use order, it's always one of the selected ships that will use it. But in this case it doesn't matter

1) You should mass the hoshiko's NEXT TO the SB (i.e., within healing range so they don't have to travel to activate the healing ability).

2) 12 is a fine number for a fleet.  However, if you have only one target you want healed, you only need enough Hoshiko's so that they don't run out of Anit-matter.  6 would probably work.  I"m not a huge TEC player, so I don't know how long the duration or AM cost is.

3) This is exactly why I like overseers, as they DO STACK.

If the cooldown of the repair ability is shorter than the duration, then yes, as long as a single Hoshiko has antimatter that's all you need. As a rule of thumb, the majority of "buff" type abilities do not stack with each other. So, 10 hoshiko repairs won't stack but you can have a repair bay, a hoshiko, and the Argonev repair abilities stack for something like +80 hp/sec (repair bay is +40, Argonev is +15 I think and Hoshiko is 25? or 30? Close enough, anyway).

The only notable exception is the Vasari Overseer, it doesn't have a normal repair ability, instead it just adds a flat 250 hp to the target ship, so you can have multiple overseers going at it without worrying about stacking.

err.... you want to spam hoshikos. they are cheap. and they can demolition bot your enemy. combined with the cobalt and cielo it makes for a dream team of statfuckery.

Addiotionaly, being able to give all ships in your fleet a flat 20 hps regeneration goes a long way towards mitigating the damage done to your already sturdy vessels. it als ohelps countering some rather nasty abilitys.

The spacewhales 30 dps dot or the radiances 33 dps dot for example.

Demo bots is helps counter HCs.  I haven't really noticed as I don't play TEC much, but I thought they affected Caps too.

Dang, this opened up alot of good information and discussion.  Thanks.  I like demobots fine but what I really wanted to do was keep my SB afloat.  Wouldn't it make sense to have 1 or 2 Hoshikos in each fleet for fleet repair instead of a fleet of Hoshikos unless there was a concern about an abilty like the Marza missle swarm etc, that might damage a lot of the ships in the same fleet at the same time?  Otherwise if the enemy is focus firing at one ship at a time one Hoshiko is as good as 20, assuming it does not run out of antimatter prior to repairing its target.

Wow, this helped alot

It's pretty rare for only one ship to be getting damaged, and only a few hoshikos for the fleet *would* run out of antimatter very quickly. Having a bunch of them spreads out the repair use since the different ships take their turns while others are cooling down, and AI light frigates like to go after support ships (supports and carriers are their primary targets) so in a big enough fight, the 1-2 hoshikos won't last very long

Obviously, if you're playing against a human opponent, they'd just primary those hoshikos and they wouldn't get anything done at all.

Except if you only have 1-2, then your enemy would just focus fire *them* first since it's effortless to destroy them. It only makes sense to not primary Hoshikos if there are lots of them, since wile you're trying to blow them up, you're not reducing any incoming damage.