Science and Construction Ships

[Savadiv]

Good evening,

I was looking into ships the last days and sadly I realised that the science and construction ship functionalities seems to be unique. It's only possible to define military ships even when you say it's a civilian ship. Problems so far:

• Like military ships you can only add admirals. Couldn't find any options about leaders and ships. It would be nice if we could choose between {no_leader, scientist, admiral}.
• Couldn't find anything about actions and interactions with the world itself. Options like {can_survey, can_build xy, ..} are missing?
• There are fleets and fleets have ships. When I build a civilian ship with e.g. a science icon I still have a military fleet with military icon.

Additional topics:

• Couldn't find any options for starting units. I think that is crucial for alternate starting scenarios like Pre-FTL or maybe for species which are not distinguishing between science and construction ship.
• Customisable interaction with planets. Is it possible to add more actions when you right click on a planet? e.g. "Start Manned Research Mission". Basically an opportunity to trigger some gameplay-events.
• Additionally it would be interesting when you could lock certain ships after some actions, so they can not be controlled directly from the player.

 

[John the Gamer]

It's about the class of ship. The constructor, for instance, has:

is_civilian = yes
is_designable = yes
class = shipclass_constructor

The construction option seems to be linked to the constructor class token.

 

[Savadiv]

Ah, thats interesting.

Okay, indeed, it's working like a charm. But it seems like it's very restricted this way...
If I understand this right there is no way to...

• make a science ship without a scientist
• make a construction ship with a leader

And the worse part is that I can not make two types of survey ships to build up a more modular exploration of the universe, because if every survey ship has the same class "shipclass_science_ship", I can not distinguish between them in e.g. events. This is kind of a big restriction there.

Thank you very much for the enlightenment so far!