Mothballing ships.

[DaloLorn]

I just had an idea after reading this post here: http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?topic=6746.new#new

Basically, it's sort of like mothballing in Space Empires. If for whatever reason you don't need flagship X right now, and it's in owned space, use an ability to mothball it. Control of the mothballed ship will be transferred to space (defaultEmpire, like with derelicts), shields and supplies will (as with derelicts) be lost, and maintenance is reduced to 5%.

The mothball status is removed when the ship is unmothballed. To avoid unmothballing spam, 10% of the ship's build cost must be paid in order to unmothball the ship. (If boarded, the ship will simply transfer ownership of the mothball status to the boarding empire so that THEY can unmothball it.)

• [x] Get approved
• [x] Modify derelict hook so it doesn't NECESSARILY damage ships
• [ ] Make a hook which adds maintenance to the origin empire of a status, dependent on the affected object's real maintenance cost
• [ ] Make a status hook which detects a change in ownership of an object and responds accordingly by destroying the status and making a new instance of the status, owned by the new empire.
• [ ] Add 'Mothball' ability to empire, capable of targeting flagships. (Alternatively, add a different variant of the ability to FlagshipHull, RemnantHull and StationHull.)
• [ ] Make an ability hook which makes the ability cost money based on the build cost of the target ship.

[DaloLorn]

Beep.

[DaloLorn]

Bleeep, deeeeet. Beepity beep beep!

[Alarcarr]

I readed it the first time .I like the idea of having fleet storage but I am stil thinking.The purpose of that is having fleets with reduced maintenace /0 maintenance available to be used when needed .