Version: 2.04
Date: 28.04.2007
Scripter: eladan
- Overview:
As well as being able to produce brand new ships, the Headquarters also has a scrapyard facility that allows you to recoup some of the materials used in the construction of ships.
When docked at your HQ each of your ships will have 2 Special commands available to them. One will request an estimation of the materials likely to be recovered from scraping a ship as well as the time it's likely to take. The other orders the HQ to scrap the ship
Reporting approx. Build/RE costs:
Shortly after starting this command on a ship you will receive a report from the Chief mechanic that details the likely resources and time needed to build or reverse engineer a ship of this type.
Scrapping a Ship:
To scrap a ship at the HQ the ship must be docked at the HQ. A Special command is then available which orders the HQ to scrap the ship, recovering as much of the raw materials as possible. The amount of materials recovered is roughly the same as the quantities required to build the ship. The actual amounts vary from ship to ship and are always less than the resources that went into the ship in the first place.
When the process begins the contents of the ship's cargobay are emptied into the HQ's holding bays. If there's not enough space for all of it, the process is stopped and a message will be sent to you informing you of the problem.
The process will also be interupted if the ship is moved, or if the engineers discover that there won't be enough room in the HQ's storage bays for all the recovered materials. In these situations you will be informed of the problem.
If the process is interupted it can simply be restarted by running the Scrap ship command again. The process will then restart from the begining.
. That's in the main ship console (or possibly the iconic menu, but you can't access that for a docked ship unless you're in it, in which case Scrap Ship won't work anyway).
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