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This is a 2 part suggestion.
First the suggestions, then the use case which has made me think of these.
Suggestions:
Use case:
I have a drone mothership I'm building and I was thinking how it could be useful to detect the ship that is docked and make sure that it is one of my drones before storing it away in a hanger (don't want anyone to send in Tojan-ships
) I figured this could be achieved with some kind of blueprint, or other means, of detection with the ship core and then I could activate another rail path when it doesn't match to eject the invalid ship from my mothership.
Another thought I had was it would be awesome that when the drones were being taxied into the hanger they could be "scanned" for damage and sent off to a repair station before being stored away; I figured this could be achieved by allowing detection of blocks on docked entities. For example, I could have a screen on the drone which is always in the same spot (of course) and shows the [mass], [structureHpPercent], [armorHpPercent] (or whatever) as an indication of whether the drone was damaged, the mothership based logic would also have knowledge (a display) with how much the [mass], [structureHpPercent], [armorHpPercent] (or whatever) should be, comparison could then happen and the drone could be sent off for repair if the values do not match; also, if the display is missing, then clearly it's damaged... send off to repair.
I'd like to hear other's thoughts on this
First the suggestions, then the use case which has made me think of these.
Suggestions:
- Ability to identify what ship is docked to the rail with logic; and
- Ability to read specific blocks on a docked entity with logic;
Use case:
I have a drone mothership I'm building and I was thinking how it could be useful to detect the ship that is docked and make sure that it is one of my drones before storing it away in a hanger (don't want anyone to send in Tojan-ships
) I figured this could be achieved with some kind of blueprint, or other means, of detection with the ship core and then I could activate another rail path when it doesn't match to eject the invalid ship from my mothership.Another thought I had was it would be awesome that when the drones were being taxied into the hanger they could be "scanned" for damage and sent off to a repair station before being stored away; I figured this could be achieved by allowing detection of blocks on docked entities. For example, I could have a screen on the drone which is always in the same spot (of course) and shows the [mass], [structureHpPercent], [armorHpPercent] (or whatever) as an indication of whether the drone was damaged, the mothership based logic would also have knowledge (a display) with how much the [mass], [structureHpPercent], [armorHpPercent] (or whatever) should be, comparison could then happen and the drone could be sent off for repair if the values do not match; also, if the display is missing, then clearly it's damaged... send off to repair.
I'd like to hear other's thoughts on this