"OnlyautocastwhendamagexceedsPerc".

I'd say make it an immobilization effect that also significantly boosts shield regen and mildly boosts armor regen; the engineers shut down the engines for repair if the ship is critically damaged. You can do it manually, but it only does it automatically if the ship takes X damage.

And no, you can't "Force" the ship to use this power. In order to do something like that, you'd need to create an "AoE" effect; either an artifact or an emission from a planet like how stars boost antimatter; that generates the immobilization upon injury, and then have it tied to every star/planet in the game.

alwaysautocastwhendamageexceedsperc

The best one to check is "AbilityRepairDroids".

aiUseTime "Anytime"
aiUseTargetCondition "HullDamageExceedsAmount"
onlyAutoCastWhenTargetHullDamageExceedsAmount //Here's the key bit;
    Level:0 150.000000 //The ability triggers when a target has lost at least 150 hps.
    Level:1 0.000000
    Level:2 0.000000
isAutoCastAvailable TRUE
isAutoCastOnByDefault TRUE

This makes it so it will autocast when a target has taken at least 150 hull damage in the AoE. (This is because the buff repairs about 200 over its span IIRC) What you want to do is give an ability with this condition to a star/planet that will target ships in the gravity well. Now, this will have major issues in line with ships with different HP totals, and there's one way to help solve those, if you look at the other section of the AbilityRepairDroids file:

targetFilter
    numOwnerships 1
    ownership "Friendly"
    numObjects 3
    object "CapitalShip" //You'll want to cut this part out, and then make a seperate version with Capital-scale HP loss.
    object "Frigate" //And this one, of course, you'll keep for the one with Frigate-scale HP loss.
    object "PlanetModule"
    numConstraints 2
    constraint "NotSelf"
    constraint "HasHullDamage"

Unfortunately I have yet to get ship abilities to work for planets. But if someone on here has, then you can use their advice, and the information you can glean from these files, to get it working. If you already know, good luck.

(The only reason you can't tie this to the ships themselves is because then the player could just disable them at-will. So either it needs an incentive to use, or it needs to be attached to an outside source.)

Edit:   That works. Use the AbilityRepairDroids as a basis(exchanging the effects), and if you can hide the icon so it cannot be disabled, you'll be set. Now you just have to steal an ability from the capital ships and give them each a version tailored to their HPs, and then do the same to the frigates.

now i just need a snippet of code to cause the ship to increase distance from target also when weapon fires, anyone know what that code may be?

The only Issue I have with that is that it uses up ability slots (or am I wrong?). Since frigates only use 1 or 2 abilities it would work for them. Cap ships would just have to remain stationary.

Personnaly...I would prefer if cap ships stay stationary all the same! Their too bulky and slow to have any impact on moving anyhow!

Just my personnal opinion ! Which we all know aint worth much

Why only somewhat...something I say you dissagree with..Im sure I can convince you *takes out a monkey wrench so how perfect was my idea LOOOOOL!

And yes Targeting Uplink is a passive ability for those who wanted confirmation!

but it should work whether or not it is a passive ability, because it is a triggered on activation code and not a triggered upon striking target code.

Exactly!

Hey I'm also in Sins of Althea mod!!! Only theirs been no activity for sooooo long !!!

Well off to work now..see you all later!