Making Starships with Shipyard Functionality

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Hey,

Just been looking through the defs and haven't seen a particular line which grants shipyards the ability to build vessels. The reason for my interest was that I wanted to make a module which allowed an otherwise normal starships to produce more ships. If this can't be done my backup is to append buffs to shipyards to a tech for specific factions.

Thanks and have a good one

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

highly doubt its possible,  shipyards are in their own file ShipyardDefs.xml.  I once asked about modding in different types that could be built during a devstream.  Unless something changed, it's unlikely there is even code for it.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I was worrying that such was the case. It's a pity, but the backup plan should be sufficient (especially as one can design custom starbases).

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I know next to nothing about this, but it occurs to me you might be able to change the moves / weapons / whatnot of the shipyards in their defs file so that they could function like a more regular starship?  Might never be able to adjust/evolve them though, but if you're content with having a uniform hive-ship it might work.  

Or to say it another way: It might work better to make a shipyard with starship functionality than make a starship with shipyard functionality.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

That's my estimation as well. They could get progressively better via unlocking buffs through ideology/tech tree, but its not quite the same is it? though adding a 'shipyard module' would probably cause a few issues that may be best avoided.