Added ideas for ship transfer......An IDEA thread.

[Miklos Atreides]

Negative. Instant transfer is because timers are a secondary mechanic .. Primary mechainc is accessing shipyard info from a different station. This, most basic data mechanic is being introduced 2.2.

SIDE EFFECT is (while transfer is instant) you CAN jump into CZ's at moment's notice.

It's HIGHLY unlikely though that the mechanic was introduced "in order to change role at moment notice". As above, timers are more complicated to add and must come AFTER shipyard datalinking.

To store a datarecord (the ship) run a timer and update stations info are about 4 lines of code. Because timer is not interacting with other events side effection aren't existing. Maybe a check with destination capabilities is needed ot accept storage of ship. Its not that hard for architecture and code.
Its about instant gameplay, that's right and from my point of view it's wrong. If you need instant gameplay buy a vessel from current or nearby starport and go on. If you've got the money to hold n
ships an pay the transport fee you can get a vessel as well. Afterwards you can sell it again and cost is 10% of hull if downstripped before which is about half a million for a vulture.
Getting the transfer prices from screenshots shown this might be cheaper than a 125 LY transport.

Your decision to take which vessel to which lcation should have some meaning. So a time delay is resonable and good. I don't say it needs to take days but depending on distance an amount of time
that is somewhat realistic in that lore.

Regards,
Miklos

 

[disorganise]

Can't this just be simples?

You can only transfer ships that the station stocks in the shipyard. RP wise, your ship is liquidated and a new one purchased. And just like the ship insurance rebuy, a the relevant modules are always available regardless of what is actually available in the yard. I guess that's why there's a premium.

Downside.....ships not in stock can't be insta transferred. Let these either not be possible, or incur a delay.

To be honest, RP wise this is how I imagine ship transfer to happen anyway. Stations maintain a limited stock of everything for insurance claims.....they're just making it available to you now for a cash premium instead of catastrophic failure.