NPC Builders

[Phatang]

Hey all, I hope you're all well. Just posting because I had an idea and this is an excuse to procrastinate from my assessments, but I was thinking about Role Playing servers or singleplayer in general. But wouldn't it be quite cool if you could give your NPC crew building tasks, say like a command, build - <select a ship from your catalog> and the NPC's build that ship block by block. Say you've built yourself a swanky faction home space station, and want to expand your empire through the stars, set an NPC or several to build new explorations ships based off your design, and you can leave the server running in the background and go back to that essay that you're supposed to be doing.... but OH NO Pirates attack and your new ships are only half finished with minimal protection! Better stop doing that work on the exploration of illicit on-screen violence for your bitch of a lecturer and defend your builders!
Just a thought, let me know what you guys think
Phatang

 

[DarthHonky]

This has potential, you could have plexstorage bins in the station that held all the building materials, and as long as the NPCs were attached to said station, they would build until the blocks ran out. I think Schema and Co. are going to go with some kind of shipyard design, and this would be a really cool way to implement the actual ship construction at a shipyard.

 

[Phatang]

Yeah that would be awesome! I feel that it would add another layer to survival players too. You finally acquire enough resources for that Titan you need to defeat that pesky rival faction, but rather than just making it appear out of nowhere from a blueprint, you have to bide your time and defend your shipyard and it's workers from enemy raids before finally taking revenge :P

 

[Targaryen]

Realy nice idea, i've allways wanted to see things like that. I hope that soon something like this will be in the game

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

Don't quote me on this but I vaguely remember hearing NPCs repairing ships being mentioned in the last live stream. I imagine if astro technobeams are required for the building process like that of shipyards than it could be possible to have a crew build a ship instead of requiring a shipyard. Some ships will also be much too large to even consider being constructed by void-docks so they will need to be constructed with ships sporting astros.

 

[Targaryen]

they may primarily have been created to do this like u said