This build adds resources management for warping.
In survival the player will need to collects "Void Pearl" and place them in a special containers to be build as addon on warp core.
Features Added:
- Void Pearl will spawn
- New Warp Storage addon.
- New event for the Warp Core: Fuel Percentage, Slots Taken, Slots Taken Percentage.
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There are two limitations to be aware:
- A ship cannot warp with Void Pearls inside any storage container, essentially forcing the player store them in the dedicated Warp Storage.
- Warp Storage eats power.
This means that how much warp fuel a ship is able to carry is a ship design decision, a higher storage being achieved at the expense of lower stats elsewhere for a given power amount.
As for the lore justification, Void Pearl are unstable in the fabric of space.
While harnessed properly they make warp jumps possible, if not stored during a warp withing the Warp Storage containment field they would reduce the ship to atoms.
A few more things to know:
- Pearl will be partially consumed during each jump. It is possible to do several jump with a single pearl if the ship is small enough.
- Pearl light will fade out the more they empty themselves.
- Pearl storage do not have a volume limit but a unit limit. Ie a stack of x4 height can store 4 pearl of any size.
- Bigger pearl store more fuel.
- You will have to discard empty pearl manually.
- Amount consumed is fixed per jump, it does not depends on how far the jump go.
- Right now a 0.5m pearl will allows a 100T ship to do 5 jumps.
- Pearl will be rare but should spawn in every system so the player don't get stuck.
- On the starting system they will spawn on a planet different from the starting one, forcing the player to explore the starting system
=> TODO: it might be painful to place each pearl manually for very large ship, so I will add a system so warp cores can connect to inventory and fetch pearls on their own.
Other improvements:
- Event Gate: now have the option for a superior or equal / inferior or equal.
- Spaceship core new event: OnWarp, Warp Change
- #5860 Saddle show orientation
Hotfixes:
- #5864 Box delete can break game
- #5861 Pedestal linked to a joystick teleport player to the wrong place.
Thanks for playing the game!
Francois
