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Landing Pad Element


DrakeBrimstone

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What it is: A Landing Pad

 

Sizes: XS, S, M

 

What size grid it can be placed on: Static or Space grids one or more sizes larger grid than the size of the Landing Pad.

 

What it looks like: A square landing pad, length, width, and height+ of the building grid from a core of the same size as the Landing Pad. The pad itself would not be very tall, but it would have an area where only separate dynamic grids no bigger than the pad may be built. This gives the necessary clearance for ship retrieval. (Also gives a space where ships can be built and allow them to be stored while still in progress.)

 

What it does: Land a ship (Dynamic Core) of it's size or smaller on the pad and activate the pad to open a menu to store the ship within it. User must have permissions for both the Landing Pad and the Ship. The pad's activation menu would also give a list of ships stored within to retrieve.

 

Volume: Subject to Balancing. Should at least hold the equivalent of the full volume of space a core of the landing pad's size. Ship volumes calculated by the sum of it's parts and contents, or on the ships grid size. This would allow a Medium Landing Pad (which must be on a large static or space grid) to hold 8 Small Dynamic Grid ships. Volume of ships that can be stored could be increased with talents.

 

Other ideas to go with it:

 

Link it to a container with fuel to allow refueling stored ships. This would be done by selecting the ship and selecting a fuel tank within the ship from the menu.

 

Allow ship containers that are set as a Linked/Primary container to be accessed while within range of the Landing Pad.

 

Allow access to ship's cargo from the landing pad interface.

 

LUA programming could include reading information on stored ships. Advanced LUA might allow for retrieving ships via alternate input than the landing pad menu.

 

Another new Element to pair with the Landing Pad, a Ship Storage Unit. It would link to Landing Pads and act as a separate storage space for ships. Linked to multiple pads could allow retrieval of ships from any linked Landing Pad or Ship Storage Unit.

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