Request: Mod for temporarily controlling another faction's ship.

[stiven2]

Hello. I don't know if there's a mod that allows you to take control of another factions ship.
Like if you're standing in the cockpit, you can ask the pilot if you can take control of the ship. And when you get up, the faction controls it again.
I don't know how hard it would be to program.

But it would be pretty cool if you wanted to jump into a war between two factions, and play as a pilot on one of the sides.

It could maybe be once you reached a certain very high reputation level with that faction, they would allow you to teleport to their ships and take control of it at will.

Could maybe be paired with the Escape Teleport mod.

[euclid]

That's a tricky one. Taking over a such a ship is easily done but to pass it back is not that simple. Faction controlled ships may be assigned to a station and may be part of a ship group. Moreover, the captain will have a script running (like "patrol") but may have a batch of tasks (i.e. a series of scripts). All this would have to be restored once you leave control. I'm not aware of any mod that does that. Best way to pass control back to the faction is to sell it to one of the faction's ship yards

Cheers Euclid

[kuertee]

...Taking over a such a ship is easily done...

how do you enable the activation of controls on npc ships that the player is allowed click?
this would be a nice trick.

[euclid]

...Taking over a such a ship is easily done...

how do you enable the activation of controls on npc ships that the player is allowed click?
this would be a nice trick.

What I meant is that you just change ownership of the ship to the player. But the reverse is trricky because changeing owership to a faction may not assign tasks (scripts) to the captain not to mention the assignment to stations or battlegroups.

Cheers Euclid

[kuertee]

ahhh pity.

i have a feeling that simply letting the player activate on the non-player-faction ship will allow the player to "fly" for that faction.
i.e. the ship will not change to the player's faction and reactions to that ship will be as if to that faction.

it's also possible to:
1. give that ship to the player's faction
2. then immediately use the "cover" system as the ship's original faction.

i've not yet experienced that point in the game yet when the cover system is used. i don't know if the experience is as if you're flying for the ship's original faction.

[j.harshaw]

If it's a free job ship not in a command hierarchy that belongs to a commandeerable job, you might be able to commandeer_object and change ownership. After you're done, clear orders, change ownership back and release_commandeered_object which should restore the ship's job-defined default order. Don't know if changing ownership to player would mess its link with the job engine, though; and no guarantees on this one since these are script actions I never really use.

Does the player have to directly control the ship? Could give commands via comms, that would be all MD work.