Spawn specific ship using core role

[spara]

It would be handy to be able to spawn a ship using it's datakey to a specific role. The idea is that I could get the exact ship I want and the core would set it up as if spawning it through a role, setting AI, armaments and such.

For example

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system.addShipWithKeyAndRole("[adder]", "trader-smuggler");

would give a trader-smuggler version of an Adder.

[Smivs]

Very good idea.

[cim]

Most of that set up is done by the populator script - the only bit which is not is the auto AI mapping (and even that is re-done in the populator script). You wouldn't really gain anything over setting the primary role yourself after spawning the ship.

Refactoring the populator script a bit so that it had a lot of setUpShipAs functions would be possible, though quite a bit of work.

[spara]

I kind of expected so. I'll see if I manage to replicate the population rules and create a helper oxp.