Disable Shipyard

[Edymnion]

Simple request, an on/off switch for shipyards like we have for factories.

My biggest shipyard eats nearly 2 million e/sec, which requires multiple docked reactors firing at all times to keep it from draining it's station dry and throwing nonstop errors. It would be really nice if I could simply turn the thing off when I'm not using it.

Especially if I could enable/disable via logic, so that I could have a button that would turn on/off the shipyard and the docked reactors that are required to keep it running.

 

[Valck]

Suggested that before, drew the usual flak because "who would ever want that", still think it would be a welcome addition. Good to see others think the same.

 

[Rixxan]

I would approve of this, most definately. It just draws too much power to make a simple station with a shipyard.

 

[Colonel Sheppard]

Just how big is this shipyard?!?

 

[Edymnion]

Just how big is this shipyard?!?

1km x 400m x 600m for purely the shipyard module section.

 

[spunkiethefirst]

You don't need a huge shipyard to build a huge ship, as it only limits one dimension. It only requires creativity.


This should help with your power management.

I agree with the on/off idea. The shipyard should also only consume power when projecting a design or when constructing, deconstructing, or repairing.

 

[Edymnion]

You don't need a huge shipyard to build a huge ship, as it only limits one dimension.

That looks like a bug to me, or at least an unintended consequence.