POB Supplies - Make them viable

[Officially_that_Guy]

Greetings, disco community!

I have run into an inconvenience and, as I consider it, an inconsistency. Ships can only carry a limited amount of batteries or bots - that much is obvious, needed, and fine the way it is.

However, supplying a base with what a single ship can carry takes a very long time, the further away you are from dockable NPC stations, and honestly...what's stopping a 5k transport from loading 5000 units of bats/bots/ammo into its hold, logically?

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So my idea is the following:

Create a custom supplies commodity for shield batteries, nanobots, and ammo, which is cargo, not a usable item.

The idea behind the commodity is to prevent abuse of the transport system - so people dont bring a transport to a fight and crack it open like a pinata when needed.

This commodity would only be "unpackable" into the actual item on a POB, where it is added to the shop.

So:
- Buy supplies on NPC Station X
- Carry supplies to your POB

- Get blown up for whatever reason: Cargo drops into space. Not usable. Can be sold for original price on any station

- Place supplies in POB
- As station administrator, type /base supplies unpack <type> (all|amount) and they appear in the equipment shop
- As station administrator, type /base supplies pack <type> (all|amount) and they are re-packed for transportation

- As I imagine this commodity to be just that - a commodity - it can have a price, so base shops can buy them or sell them.


What are your thoughts on the matter? I think this might be a viable alternative to the "buy 75bots/bats/missiles, sell 75 bats/bots/missiles". And since the FLHook can add/delete cash, it should be able to run the same operation for items/commodities, right?

Please provide your input on this idea


P.S.: I'd volunteer to provide the needed gfx for the commodity if this idea comes through.

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Rust is lighter than carbon fiber!

[Hannibal]

basically get one item from the npc station and change it to another once dumped on a pob

sounds good, but will require having someone editing the current base plugin .. let's just say it will be faster/better to just introduce a new ship actually transporting nanobots and batteries.

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[Skorak]

That ship will be a serious problem for pvp.

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[Hannibal]

That ship will be a serious problem for pvp.

i don't see how since won't have turrets and could not transfer the ammo..

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People want to believe that God has a plan for them.
They don't wanna believe that anyone else does..

[Skorak]

By going into combat and blowing up.

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[jim-drover]

So my idea is the following:

Create a custom supplies commodity for shield batteries, nanobots, and ammo, which is cargo, not a usable item.

The idea behind the commodity is to prevent abuse of the transport system - so people dont bring a transport to a fight and crack it open like a pinata when needed.

This commodity would only be "unpackable" into the actual item on a POB, where it is added to the shop.

So:
- Buy supplies on NPC Station X
- Carry supplies to your POB
- Get blown up for whatever reason: Cargo drops into space. Not usable.Can be sold for original price on any station

In case you did not read it ... ;-)

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[Officially_that_Guy]

The idea behind the commodity is to prevent abuse of the transport system - so people dont bring a transport to a fight and crack it open like a pinata when needed.

Hence...Pinata pinata!

Alternatively you could make it an ooRP ship like the camera ship, but with the commodity idea that'd be unnecessary. I think any transport should be inRP, otherwise people will abuse it (>>Recruit ID on a 5k is not rare).

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Rust is lighter than carbon fiber!

[Gunbladelad]

The Repair ships should be able to transfer plenty of the nanobots / shield batteries anyway, but what might work with this idea is a "Ship munitions" commodity which could be "cooked up" on a POB into specific types of ammunition with the correct module on the POB.

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Where logic won't work, I will.