[Bonus Plugin] Scrap Ship at Player HQ

[moggy2]

Name: Scrap Ship at Player HQ
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.

[GermanicHeathen]

Seriously, how do I do it? I've checked the extended commands of both ship and HQ, no option there. I've checked the installed extensions list of the ship, no entry. How does that thing work? If I understood the readme correctly there's supposed to be some extra commands available to ships docked at the HQ, no?

[Carlo the Curious]

When ships are docked at HQ you should have a 'Scrap Ship' option in special commandsfor the ship.

[GermanicHeathen]

That would be the very same "special command" slots that (among other things) offer the remote transporter device activation, right? If so... I got a problem. Nothing to see in there.

[eladan]

It can't be your ship - the ship you're piloting, that is. But it should appear in the special command menu of any of your other ships when they're docked at the hq.

[Carlo the Curious]

[GermanicHeathen]

[eladan]

Possibly worth reinstalling the script pack. Do you happen to be running any scripts/mods?

[GermanicHeathen]

Nothing besides the bonus pack (and Bala Gi). Straight vanilla game, non-plot.

[eladan]

Should be there then. No upgrades are required in order for the command to appear (wouldn't make sense for it to require upgrades.) My post above mentioned the only requirements for the command to appear. As long as the script was chosen for installation, and you meet those requirements, you should see the command. As I said, see if reinstallation makes it visible.

[GermanicHeathen]

Yup, will have to try that. Sometime in the upcoming days (low priority currently)

[Carlo the Curious]

[GermanicHeathen]

I guess we need some gesture support for differentiating between the menus then... like, you mean the "c" command console you rub your nose, you mean the iconic menu you jump up and down...

Seriously, right after posting this I'll reboot from operating system back into M$ and check it out

[Carlo the Curious]

*rubs nose while stroking head in a circular motion, jumps up and down, and falls over*

Clearly the ship command console accessed via the icons!

[eladan]