[Feature Request] Better Ship mod integration

[DirkGriffin]

The Pitch:
To Avoid having players “save Scum” to get the best ship modifications, try and integrate the modification process into the player characters skill levels. To make this balanced and allow players to receive the best mod values later in game, make the player start off as 0 star skill on all attributes. This will allow late game players to not have to reload a save multiple times to grind the best stats, but rather entice players to use in game mechanics to achieve the best mods. This way ship mods can also become part of a skill tree for the players rather than being locked behind the HQ research tree. Below is a simple outline of how this might be implemented.

Skill Levelling:
Piloting: levelled the same way as NPC’s
Morale: Level based on Net worth as well as personnel Moral average. “the happier your people, the happier you are”
Management: Level by completing trades successfully, either through direct trades, Sale of inventory items, commanding your trade vessels to trade. All based on profit amount and not the total sale amount.
Engineering: Level by doing repair missions, repairing ships damaged by battle.
Boarding: Level by boarding operations as you oversee the boarding process, XP based on success VS NPC’s lost.

Skill affecting ship mods:
Chassis: Values based on Engineering skill.
Engine: Values based on Piloting skill the same as with the type of formation that the player fleet can have.
Shield: Values based on Piloting and Engineering.
Weapon: Values based on Boarding and Engineering.

Closing thoughts:
Since there are three ship mod tiers, these can be unlocked at 1 star, 3 stars and 5 stars, respectively. Also, positive values will increase with a higher skill level and negative values will decrease with a higher skill to give the best mod values the higher the player level. Ships Directly under the players fleet can also gain small bonusses in skill based of players level in that particular skill and gain an XP multiplier to level faster due to direct command.