#216: transport hubs and spacial workshops no longer conjure their crews.
Transporters and repair drones are ordered at a ship crafter, assigned per
building through a new Station menu, flown out from the mothership hangar,
and spent by the work they do - 20 runs, 12 repairs, counted where the run
ENDS so nothing retires with cargo in the air or a building half repaired.
A spent vessel is gone, so the structure is short again and the player has
to build another. The menu shows what each one has left, worst first.
Craftability needed its own flag: "the crafter can make it" and "it can take
a berth in the fleet" stopped being the same question.
#217: transporters crawl at 120 rather than 150, and a Burn Drive lets them
carry energy and spend it to travel far faster. Fetching it is a leg of its
own, to the nearest store that has any - so a refuelling transporter cannot
be dispatched mid-errand - and the leg flown to COLLECT fuel is not charged
for it. Unresearched, nothing detours and nothing changes.
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#157 was already satisfied - second_hull is quest 7 and extractor is quest
11 - so this pins the property rather than adding a quest: nothing costing
more than a single hold may be asked for before the chain has grown the
fleet or taught banking. It fails if either is ever moved behind it.
#158 - a building's local costs may now be paid out of the fleet's hold.
#12 made production cost resources physically DELIVERED rather than money
out of the bank, and that stands: the bank is still not raided here. The
hold is simply the other place resources physically are, and making the
player park, open the transfer menu and move cargo across by hand was
ceremony rather than a decision.
But only WHERE THE FLEET IS, and that qualifier is the whole design. The
first draft had no range on it and test_manual_supply_route caught it
immediately: a crafter three thousand units away reached into the hold and
spent ore the player had just withdrawn to carry somewhere else - which is
exactly the complaint that got automatic banking removed in #24, arriving
from the other direction. The range is Building.interact_radius, the same
distance that decides whether the transfer button appears, so the rule is
not a hidden one: if you could hand the cargo over, the building can take
it.
#159 - the mothership floored at 1hp, so a battered one sat there reading as
dead and never exploded. That exemption existed to prevent a soft-lock, and
the soft-lock turns out not to exist: the bank is GameState.bank_inventory
and the hangar is stored_vessels, both of which outlive any building; the
mothership is the one structure research never gates; it costs exactly what
a single interceptor's hold carries; and ore comes from asteroids, which do
not run out. So the way back is always mine, fly, rebuild - and that is what
test_building_health now asserts, in place of the exemption that used to
stand in for it.
Nothing can attack a structure that cannot be hurt, so this is the floor the
rest of #97 stands on.
max_hp is per definition - an extractor bolted to a rock is not the
mothership - and the current value lives on the RECORD in GameState, not on
the Building node. Main.tscn is torn down and rebuilt on every trip to a
planet surface, so damage kept on a node would heal itself the moment the
player landed.
A record written before this carries no hp field at all. That reads as
undamaged rather than as zero, or an existing save would open on a field of
wrecks.
The mothership cannot be destroyed - it floors at 1hp. The bank, the hangar
and research all live there and a wiped fleet rebuilds there, so losing it
would be a soft-lock with no route back. Keyed on the "bank" capability
rather than on the type: whatever building holds the bank is the one that
cannot be lost.
Destroying a hub retires its transporters. Everything else keyed on a
building id already copes with the building being gone - a transporter
mid-delivery puts its cargo back rather than destroying it.
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