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Ship Reverse Engineering
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Ship Reverse Engineering

Description
This extension adds an option to a player-owned shipyard or equipment dock to analyze a docked ship you own, destroying it but learning blueprints from it.

To use, dock the ship to analyze at the station and then contact either the ship trader or manager. Select Analyze Ship and then the ship to analyze. Only ships from which you can learn new blueprints will be displayed. Everything on the ship will be destroyed along with it, so remove any important staff or other items before starting.

If you are using a shipyard and you don't have the hull blueprint for the ship, you always get that. Otherwise, you get one or more random blueprints among the equipment on the ship: shields, thrusters, weapons, turrets, or engines.

The analysis will take up one of your ship build/equip slots while in progress. It will show up as if you were building a new ship, so you can check the time remaining. If you cancel, you will not get your ship back, so don't do that. :)

Feedback on balance would be appreciated. The blueprint costs are all over the place but I tried to set it up so it's not a guarantee you want to analyze; it should depend on the item, how badly you want it NOW as opposed to a while in the future, and how much you want the build slot it will take up.
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Mysterial  [author] 9 Aug @ 5:54pm 
The blueprints for Xenon equipment comes from research.
Sillls 9 Aug @ 4:18pm 
I have noticed that some of the ship dealers seem to be gone once I added the mod. Including the one of my own build Wharf.
Sillls 9 Aug @ 12:48pm 
I captured some Xenon ships and wanted to use the mod. But I wanted to get blueprints of the weapons, shields, thrusters and engines as well.
Mysterial  [author] 4 Aug @ 8:42am 
It needs as many build drones as it normally takes to build a ship at max speed
Immortal Zeki 3 Aug @ 9:34pm 
Tbf currently I don't have any building drones, do I just need more to make it speed up?
Immortal Zeki 3 Aug @ 9:33pm 
I like the mod and I get you want balance, but can a version be available to speed up the analyzing? It is slow. Does anything speed it up? Like the more building drones it does or something? Is it possible to make extension options to change how fast it is?
the mighty whatever 21 Jun @ 6:40am 
This a really good mod, well done!
Mysterial  [author] 19 Jun @ 6:58am 
Now that Egosoft fixed UI modding at some point I might switch it to a real UI instead. Doing 'more' on the dialogue wheel is really painful.
Beepity Boop 18 Jun @ 11:49pm 
...Actually I guess changing option 6 from "back" to "more" if there are more than five potential analysis targets would also work
Beepity Boop 18 Jun @ 11:32pm 
Suggestion: Make option 5 be a "more" option when applicable so that if someone has more than five potential analysis targets they can choose the one they want instead of...is it random, currently?