Jake wrote:make it possible to tow a ship
I missed this thread though related to my [wiki]Towbar[/wiki] OXP. I think there is a possibility to take a ship after towed into a station and fixed for very heavy cost to help
get rare hulls in another way than checking all shipyards.
Bothkill wrote:the trade in value should be extremely low (something like: "The shipyard boss drags you aside and whispers to you: Hey, we both know this is not perse your ship, so if you really wanna sell her, I can give you no more than 10% its market value since I have to make a lot of ... uhmm.. modifications and paper work to put it legally back on the market").
I like this kind of justification, usable to confirm a 90% fixing cost also.
Smivs wrote:one problem could be allowing for the large number of ship types available - this OXP would possibly need to know about all available ship types including OXP ones.
I think to ships with playable versions only, which list is already gathered in [wiki]Gallery[/wiki] OXP.
Switeck wrote:storing your current ship (for like 1000 credits/day).
It is possible with using
Ship Storage Helper OXP and something from
Extended Shipyards OXP but not so easy to finish it and there are big headaches with core changes and new things added by future OXPs so probably always need updates or will break.
The easy way is enough imho: sell the player ship and use the money for fixing the new ship.
Regarding dertien's post, if towing is required then:
-no problem with ships without escape pod,
-no autopilot needed,
-mass is limited to maximum 1.6 times more than your ship so players will not get a much larger ship easily,
-the sell price is near the suggestion and can be deducted from the new ship price to get the cost of fixing.
Much easier to store damaged hulls only than storing the current player ship, so can be possible to gather more hulls but if player decide to fix one then must sell the current ship first to avoid problems.
If I get requests to make the version described above then I can put it into my todo.