[MOD] Player Owned Ship Production

[Blackscorp_81]

This mod is broken for me on Game-Version 1.5

With this mod installed i don't get all the buttons in ship-configuration-menu on ship-building/editing.
For example, the Turrets-Button is gone completely. (not greyed out... i mean GONE)
Tried with only this mod installed. Bug is caused by this mod.
Worked fine before patch 1.5
hope you will fix it next year.

[KMDR Kyle Nexus]

i got the same problem,
but if u rigthclick on the position where the turret or the engine fits, it works.

[alexringess]

I won't be able to update the mod until January 3rd. Sorry guys.

Have a good XMass time dude

[LegionOfOne]

I may have found a temporary fix for the official 1.50 version (I know, I said that before...). I'm afraid carmaster may not have time to test it himself before the new year, so I'll make it available here.

The NPC shipyards are entierely fixed, turrets and engines are back. The player shipyards work fine, except that you have access to equipment you have no blueprint for, and every ship. The only limit is ships and equipment that requires a military or capital licence, you will need the right licence with the right faction to build destroyers or carriers in your own shipyard. So the only bug is you have access to too much stuff. I can live with that

Apart from that, everything works great, I've been playing since yesterday without bugs.

So here is a zip with two files to replace the ones in your playershipyards folder.
Now a warning :I'm not the mod creator, just a stubborn coder who didn't want to play without his shipyards. The fix works great for me, but I haven't tested it with every combination of mods.
This is just for other impatient people who are not willing to wait for the official update. I wouldn't want to leave you bereft of shipyards for the holidays, 'tis not in the season's spirit.

So here it is, enjoy :
https://mega.nz/#!EPpFUaaC!VmmFr-ug4oT2 ... QU9WOOU6_w

I can't wait for carmaster to create a proper 'player licence' so we can create new ships and equipment unique to player shipyards.

[aftokinito]

I may have found a temporary fix for the official 1.50 version (I know, I said that before...). I'm afraid carmaster may not have time to test it himself before the new year, so I'll make it available here.

The NPC shipyards are entierely fixed, turrets and engines are back. The player shipyards work fine, except that you have access to equipment you have no blueprint for, and every ship. The only limit is ships and equipment that requires a military or capital licence, you will need the right licence with the right faction to build destroyers or carriers in your own shipyard. So the only bug is you have access to too much stuff. I can live with that

Apart from that, everything works great, I've been playing since yesterday without bugs.

So here is a zip with two files to replace the ones in your playershipyards folder.
Now a warning :I'm not the mod creator, just a stubborn coder who didn't want to play without his shipyards. The fix works great for me, but I haven't tested it with every combination of mods.
This is just for other impatient people who are not willing to wait for the official update. I wouldn't want to leave you bereft of shipyards for the holidays, 'tis not in the season's spirit.

So here it is, enjoy :
https://mega.nz/#!EPpFUaaC!VmmFr-ug4oT2 ... QU9WOOU6_w

I can't wait for carmaster to create a proper 'player licence' so we can create new ships and equipment unique to player shipyards.

Sadly I'm in my home country for christmas so I don't have access to X4 or my personal files so I cannot verify this or work on it but if it works for now, feel free to use it for the time being.
I plan to work on the ship blueprints I mentioned on the OP next year, which should allow for more granular control over what the player can and cannot build at their facilities.

[Smaste]

I may have found a temporary fix for the official 1.50 version (I know, I said that before...). I'm afraid carmaster may not have time to test it himself before the new year, so I'll make it available here.

The NPC shipyards are entierely fixed, turrets and engines are back. The player shipyards work fine, except that you have access to equipment you have no blueprint for, and every ship. The only limit is ships and equipment that requires a military or capital licence, you will need the right licence with the right faction to build destroyers or carriers in your own shipyard. So the only bug is you have access to too much stuff. I can live with that

Apart from that, everything works great, I've been playing since yesterday without bugs.

So here is a zip with two files to replace the ones in your playershipyards folder.
Now a warning :I'm not the mod creator, just a stubborn coder who didn't want to play without his shipyards. The fix works great for me, but I haven't tested it with every combination of mods.
This is just for other impatient people who are not willing to wait for the official update. I wouldn't want to leave you bereft of shipyards for the holidays, 'tis not in the season's spirit.

So here it is, enjoy :
https://mega.nz/#!EPpFUaaC!VmmFr-ug4oT2 ... QU9WOOU6_w

I can't wait for carmaster to create a proper 'player licence' so we can create new ships and equipment unique to player shipyards.

doesn't seem to work for me with the current mods I have selected, will try again and then start disabling mods to see if it works vanilla, then go from there

tested with speed build and cheat, no dice, NPC shipyards work perfectly but POSY have no equipment available

[LegionOfOne]

NPC shipyards work perfectly but POSY have no equipment available

Maybe try giving yourself licences from factions and all the blueprints with the cheat mod, to see if it helps. I had a custom start with a relation boost and a few licences from Argon, so maybe that's why. And I bought a few blueprints for weapons and shields while my shipyards were building, but noticed I had access to more than just the ones I bought.

Edit : I'm running many mods, but just one that interacts with POSY : the new faction battleships, one of which I just built at my shipyard
A few tips I learned the hard way : Blaze's ships, combined with POSY, makes my savegames crash while loading when the shipyards are built, but not before.
Also, saving when your shipyard is finished, but doesn't have a ship seller yet, can cause a save to crash too.

Sorry It didn't work for you. I hope the method above helps.

[Smaste]

NPC shipyards work perfectly but POSY have no equipment available

Maybe try giving yourself licences from factions and all the blueprints with the cheat mod, to see if it helps. I had a custom start with a relation boost and a few licences from Argon, so maybe that's why. And I bought a few blueprints for weapons and shields while my shipyards were building, but noticed I had access to more than just the ones I bought.

Sorry It didn't work for you. I hope the method above helps.

that's the first thing I did unfortunately, I have a muscle memory routine of adding everything during tests lol

[aftokinito]

NPC shipyards work perfectly but POSY have no equipment available

Maybe try giving yourself licences from factions and all the blueprints with the cheat mod, to see if it helps. I had a custom start with a relation boost and a few licences from Argon, so maybe that's why. And I bought a few blueprints for weapons and shields while my shipyards were building, but noticed I had access to more than just the ones I bought.

Edit : I'm running many mods, but just one that interacts with POSY : the new faction battleships, one of which I just built at my shipyard
A few tips I learned the hard way : Blaze's ships, combined with POSY, makes my savegames crash while loading when the shipyards are built, but not before.
Also, saving when your shipyard is finished, but doesn't have a ship seller yet, can cause a save to crash too.

Sorry It didn't work for you. I hope the method above helps.

"His" ships are just copy and pastes with stats changed so they shouldn't really cause any crashes.
I have noticed in the past, though, that saving while you are producing a ship at your own facility will sometimes make the save crash the game when loaded.

[Eldiora]

Looks like the latest 1.5 patch broke all my savegames. I am completly unable to load any of them, it loads to 100% then the game shuts down without notice.

Is there any way to salvage my savegame somehow?

[OneOfMany]

Looks like the latest 1.5 patch broke all my savegames. I am completly unable to load any of them, it loads to 100% then the game shuts down without notice.

Is there any way to salvage my savegame somehow?

Do you have an odd save in your main saves folder, something that does not look right by name or its extension. I had this issue and one of my saves was corrupted and had a .tmp extension. Once deleted all worked well.

[Terrantoni]

Ho Ho Ho this is an awesome Christmas Present, thank you guys for creating and fixing this, was struggling about 3 days and got really frustrated, imagine how happy i was when the time trigger started running and the ship started building

If i tell a trader to trade automatic(vanilla trade mode) or use tatertrade or autotrade, would any of those buddys deliver goods if needed or do i have to tranfer manually?

Thanks again guys you are awesome!

[ArbeeRB]

Attempting to press the 'buy ships' button on a player owned shipyard currently crashes my game, with or without the fix.
Tried this with a built shipyard, and a shipyard that I took over through the cheatmenu.

[LegionOfOne]

If i tell a trader to trade automatic(vanilla trade mode) or use tatertrade or autotrade, would any of those buddys deliver goods if needed or do i have to tranfer manually?

Depends on how you setup your shipyard.
There are two methods I use for that :

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1- Have Wharfs and Shipyards without a single factory in them. That way, any ship assigned to trade for the station would only buy the goods needed for ship production.
Don't forget to put a lot of container storage, and a habitation module (without it you can't buy crew for your ships, not even captains). I believe you can even deactivate the buying of food and meds, the simple presence of a hab module is enough, no need to actually feed them
To supply those stations faster, I like to build a few factories producing what they will need the most, like hull, engines and antimatter converters, and put these factories right next to the shipyard. If stations are really close, they can sometimes trade using a rather hidden feature, 'mass traffic'. I found out about it trolling through the game's files while trying to mod it. What it means is that the two stations can trade directly using cargo drones station-to-station, without need for a ship ! The stations need to have cargo drones of course, and it doesn't seem to always work, or maybe I haven't figured out all the prerequisites yet, but I've seen it work and it is quite efficient. Anyway, being close makes it much easier for your traders even if mass-traffic doesn't work.

2- Build a big self-contained factory, that will produce most of the wares a shipyard need, without ever needing to buy intermediate products (energy cells, refined metal...).
Your only input should be raw materials (ore, ice, helium), so you'll need a few miners and gasers. Anything else, deactivate the buying and selling of it in the station's logical overview. As a test, you can try to assign a trade ship to the station, he should not have a single ware to trade, and sit idle.
Then, you can add a ship building module to the station. Any trader you assign after that will trade only what you need to build ships, and you will already have a steady supply from your own factories on the station.
I would recommend seriously massive amounts of storage to make sure your station has room for everything. I suggest the 10x storage mod for that, it also fixes a few deadlocks in npc shipyards when they don't manage their storage space well.

As for the trade scripts, autotrade doesn't respect 'faction restriction' settings and seems to bypass some of the buy/sell parameters you set in the station logistical overview, so I prefer not to use it.
Tatertrade seems to respect these settings, but is still early in development, so I'm only using it on my factory that sells to the other factions, to test it.
For now, the vanilla behavior works fine for trade between my stations, if I set up the buy and sell orders of each station the right way before assigning traders. Sometimes, their orders don't update properly when you modify the buy/sell settings. If that happens, remove them from their trading assignment, then assign them to trade again, they will get the right orders.

Then sit back and watch your fleet grow, before unleashing it on an unsuspecting universe and burn every other faction to ashes ! (what, that wasn't the plan ? I mean, once you've exterminated everyone else, the game runs really smooth )

[LegionOfOne]

Attempting to press the 'buy ships' button on a player owned shipyard currently crashes my game, with or without the fix.

Sounds like an compatibility issue with other mods at first glance, this is not the bug caused by the update to v1.50. Try just using the POSY mod to see if it works. Any mod that modifies or add ships or equipment has a small chance of creating a conflict somewhere.

[ArbeeRB]

Attempting to press the 'buy ships' button on a player owned shipyard currently crashes my game, with or without the fix.

Sounds like an compatibility issue with other mods at first glance, this is not the bug caused by the update to v1.50. Try just using the POSY mod to see if it works. Any mod that modifies or add ships or equipment has a small chance of creating a conflict somewhere.

My game is already so heavily modded, it's going to be a nightmare to go piece by piece.
I'll update when I know more.

[Terrantoni]

Thank you Legion of one for that nice explanation, really appreciate it Hope Santa brings you awesome presents.

[Terrantoni]

Thank you Legion of one for that nice explanation, really appreciate it Hope Santa brings you awesome presents.

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I may have found a temporary fix for the official 1.50 version (I know, I said that before...). I'm afraid carmaster may not have time to test it himself before the new year, so I'll make it available here.

The NPC shipyards are entierely fixed, turrets and engines are back. The player shipyards work fine, except that you have access to equipment you have no blueprint for, and every ship. The only limit is ships and equipment that requires a military or capital licence, you will need the right licence with the right faction to build destroyers or carriers in your own shipyard. So the only bug is you have access to too much stuff. I can live with that

Apart from that, everything works great, I've been playing since yesterday without bugs.

So here is a zip with two files to replace the ones in your playershipyards folder.
Now a warning :I'm not the mod creator, just a stubborn coder who didn't want to play without his shipyards. The fix works great for me, but I haven't tested it with every combination of mods.
This is just for other impatient people who are not willing to wait for the official update. I wouldn't want to leave you bereft of shipyards for the holidays, 'tis not in the season's spirit.

So here it is, enjoy :
https://mega.nz/#!EPpFUaaC!VmmFr-ug4oT2 ... QU9WOOU6_w

I can't wait for carmaster to create a proper 'player licence' so we can create new ships and equipment unique to player shipyards

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Any idea why i get a Crash to Desktop when trying to buy paranid License? Two trys two crashes, worked fine with argon license1 Crash, 1 succesful buy
Edit: No Matter at what faction i want to buy Licenses and no matter what license even building modules get me a CTD, unbuilding every Shipyard and trying to take out this mod from extensions makes savegames unloadable Only Chance start a new game, buy all licenses and then get this nice mod in game, damn

What kinds of mod could conflict?

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improvedexplorebehavior
MineDefence
paintjobforsale
PlayerAnomalyGeneraturGuidance
silenceNotifications
skip_intro
sst(secretstash)
stationtradewarebasketfix
truecapture
blazehavoc
buildtimestationmodules
crystalfinder
earlyseta
improvedrepairlaser
IncreasedLongRangeScan
learningallthethings
legacymusic
lottery_winner_gamestart
NoDarkAmbient
os_blaze
RareModPartSold
Turretgains
sectorsatelites
signalLeakHunter
SkipStationScan

Or is it maybe a problem with the fix?
Edit2: Replaced the fix files with the originals last updated of this mod, now buying licenses in my savegame works again. Going to buy now all licenses i am able to and than kick the fix files back in

[LegionOfOne]

What kinds of mod could conflict?

The two Blaze ship mods caused the same kind of crashes for me, I would start by deactivating them. I haven't had a game with them and POSY that didn't crash eventually.
If that doesn't fix it, try deactivating Turretgains and MineDefense, these are the only ones that could cause a problem with licences I think. The other mods shouldn't interact in any way.

Good luck !

[Terrantoni]

First i tried your suggestion, did not help.
Than removed mod by mod, i am now at the part where only mods remaining which i am unable to just knock them off.This is:

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LotteryWinnerGamestart
Autotrade
Tatertrade
improvedexplorebehaviour
sectorsatelites

Still getting CTD at finishing the buy of any license.
So, i started a new Game without explorebehaviour and lottery winner gamestart, kept anything else inclusive blazing havoc in and tada it works or even looks like it works now We´ll see, anyway thanks! Evil Egosoft releasing the game without player shipyards tzz tzzz tzz