#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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Groundwork for #5. vessels_owed carries the VESSEL TYPE rather than a
bare count, so a shield vessel finishing while the player is on a planet
comes back as a shield vessel. Fleet.add_ship takes a type, and vessels
already flying are re-statted when an upgrade is researched.
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Forgejo #19, part 6 of #12. Transporters are built at the ship crafter,
fly themselves to the nearest hub and wait there. When a building is
short of what its queue needs, the nearest idle transporter runs
hub -> mothership -> building -> hub. Ore leaves the bank when it is
loaded and lands in the building's stock on arrival, so what is drawn
and what happens are the same event - the extractor hauler's rule.
Production orders are now TYPED (interceptor / transporter) rather than
a bare count, since the crafter builds two different things. One at a
time is dispatched per building: without that, every idle transporter
chases the same shortfall and they all arrive carrying ore nobody needs.
Three fixes from play-testing feedback:
- Storing ore into a building is now a deliberate button press, not a
side effect of opening the menu.
- The mothership's load-ore controls were positioned from the TOP of the
screen, so on any viewport shorter than ~1300px the label fell off the
bottom. They are anchored to the bottom edge now, and the label had no
explicit font size so it inherited the theme's 78px and wrapped off
screen. Checked at 720x960 and 720x1280.
- The craft button looked live and did nothing. It was not the transport
work: BASE_FLEET_SIZE is 5 and a new game starts with exactly 5 ships,
so the fleet is at its cap from the first frame and every interceptor
order was refused. The button is now visibly disabled and says why.
The underlying balance (crafter useless until Wing Doctrine) is left
alone - that is a design call, not a bug to quietly change.
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