Disable Shipyard

    Edymnion

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