[MOD] Traveling Teladi. (An NPC ferry for player owned S/M ships)

[dertien]

From beacon to beacon the Traveling Teladi flies...

Allows equipping a TT beacon (Traveling Teladi) at wharves and drop them anywhere.

The Traveling Teladi flies from beacon to beacon in sequence and allows your M and S ships to hitch-a-ride. At every beacon, the Traveling Teladi will stop to clip its nails. This takes 5 minutes... Hopefully that is long enough for your M and S ships to do their trade with the nearby station and hop aboard again before the Traveling Teladi leaves en route to the next TT beacon.

Both purchasing and dropping TT-beacons creates profitsss... for the Traveling Teladi... Depending on your ranking with the Teladi faction (not the Ministry Of Finance), the beacons dropped will cost you... they cost more or they cost less depending on the number of beacons deployed and your relationship with the Teladi in general. Destroying the beacons (self destruct via right-mouse-click on the map) will remove the fee you pay for that beacon. Remove them all to remove all periodic fees. For those who wish to remove all fees and cheat the Traveling Teladi out of their income, delete the 'TravTel_Beacon_Rent.xml' file from your MD folder.

This mod was created for the Expanse mod, (but it can be used in vanilla also) where sectors are huge and ordering or flying S and M size ships through asteroid fields was kinda painful.

So now, you can do the legwork once, with a fast scout equipped with TT beacons (purchase them at wharves in the equipment section) and deploy those near stations that you are interested in trading with. The Traveling Teladi will then ferry your small or medium trader ship or those under your AI command from beacon to beacon. Wait time at each beacon is 5 minutes. 5 minutes is 300 seconds and can be changed by editing the MD file.

NOTE: The docking of your S/M ships to the Traveling Teladi is not automatic. You will need to manually keep an eye out for when the Traveling Teladi is near its beacons. This is a mod for a starting game, when you are still manually trading, you have a small fleet that follows you around or you're playing X4 in the background and commandeering your M ships around to trade, while you keep an eye on them. This is NOT an auto trading/docking script.

Installation instructions
Unzip and copy the file 13_Traveling_Teladi into your extensions folder. Uninstalling should be flawless also by simply deleting the folder.

Main features
The mod was aimed at helping those early traders who cannot afford a big ship, a ferry that is lore-friendly. The Traveling Teladi will NOT respond to player orders and is not part of the player's wing. It simply flies from beacon to beacon in order of drop and will continue to do so as long as it has TT beacons to fly to.

Requirements
No additional requirements.

Shout outs
Shout out goes to ChemODun who helped me finding the damn beacon macro to start this whole thing with.
Shout out also goes to Codex, who wrote both md scripts. Took me a while to get me there and figure out the prompts, but here we go.
Found an AI that can script X4 foundations. Not without many headaches to get there first. Don't be too harsh please, it's my first script mod.

Inspiration came from the Galtaxi mod https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/1352, but instead you can bring your ship along on long journeys now...
Use with vanilla or with Expanse mod https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/1140

Download here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/2091

Feedback welcome.