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This is kinda sparked by Evil Juice's ship handling question, but is something I was wondering about for the TOGY.

Would it be possible to leave one's ship at a station and 'hire' or buy another ship, fly it about and then eventually return it to the station to collect your old ship?

The reason I would like to see this is that I would like the players using TOGY to be able to hire a little pod from the TOGY station and use that to fly around the GY before returning to the station, picking up thier old ship and going about thier business.

It could have other benefits too, such as the player maybe having a number of different ships dotted about the galaxy, or maybe have a home base where they have two or three ships berthed depending on what mission type they are currently pursuing.

I don't know how much work it would be, but I do think it would open up some new areas of mission building, as well as being a cool thing to spend money on (in game, of course).

The thing about leaving ships dotted about is that you’d effectively lose them all when swapping galaxies…

Need a swap_ship type command here.

dock to TOGY-station->Q want to take tour? Y->

swapShipTo: shuttlepod, launch

shuttlepod has no fuel, no scoop. but ASC directs topurist around togy, monuments give tour information when in close proximity.

when redocked to station-> returnShipSwap

somehow store ship-owned information
or make swapShip a one launch only swap.
(replace ship to owned_ship at any dock after tour-launch)

[[ps this would need new code]]

Though this may be diffucult to implement, I am sure it would add alot of value to the game, as well as being the base for other improvements. Touring the TOGY or owning a asteroid base with multiple ships would be amazing.

I started a topic, on the same... topic

Selezen wrote:

This is kinda sparked by Evil Juice's ship handling question...

Err...I believe I did mention that, EJ...