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[Raif Redacted]

I was thinking of making a mod similar to this, until I noticed this in your signature over on the TMI post. How would I adjust the settings to just take 50 Metal with 1 Heavy Machinery and 1 Fuel to create 5 Supplies, without taking market prices, ship bonuses or any values into account? That was what I was going to make, something super simple and clean, without fractions (I'm a bit OCD).

One suggestion: sound does not travel in space, therefore having your ship be easier to detect doesn't make much sense. You're not outputting a bunch of energy, either, as creation of supplies from metal using heavy machinery wouldn't require anything but bending and forging, etc. Manual labor. Supplies are supposed to be things you use to fix up your ship (in-universe roleplay, at least). That wouldn't be something that's dangerous, but rather necessary, where the danger lies in leaving unprepared or incapable.

[Timid]

I was thinking of making a mod similar to this, until I noticed this in your signature over on the TMI post. How would I adjust the settings to just take 50 Metal with 1 Heavy Machinery and 1 Fuel to create 5 Supplies, without taking market prices, ship bonuses or any values into account? That was what I was going to make, something super simple and clean, without fractions (I'm a bit OCD).

Code

	"SF_MetalConversionRate": 1.0, #This equates to 3 Supplies!
	"SF_MetalCost":50,
	"SF_HeavyMachineryCost":1,
	#Just don't set those two above to zero or less. Because... you can't really set it to zero without the whole thing bamming and crashing.
	
	#These determine how civilian ships are increasing the bonus of your supply forging, civilian frigate provide +5%!
	"SF_Frigate":0,
	"SF_Destroyer":0,
	"SF_Cruiser":0,
	"SF_Capital":0,
	
	"SF_Input":false, # Should the modifier affect the input? (Metal and Heavy Machinery Cost)
	"SF_Output":false, # Should the modifier affect the output? (Supply)

One suggestion: sound does not travel in space, therefore having your ship be easier to detect doesn't make much sense. You're not outputting a bunch of energy, either, as creation of supplies from metal using heavy machinery wouldn't require anything but bending and forging, etc. Manual labor. Supplies are supposed to be things you use to fix up your ship (in-universe roleplay, at least). That wouldn't be something that's dangerous, but rather necessary, where the danger lies in leaving unprepared or incapable.

It's more like an increased heat signature that they are detecting from.

[Raif Redacted]

I was thinking of making a mod similar to this, until I noticed this in your signature over on the TMI post. How would I adjust the settings to just take 50 Metal with 1 Heavy Machinery and 1 Fuel to create 5 Supplies, without taking market prices, ship bonuses or any values into account? That was what I was going to make, something super simple and clean, without fractions (I'm a bit OCD).

Code

	"SF_MetalConversionRate": 1.0, #This equates to 3 Supplies!
	"SF_MetalCost":50,
	"SF_HeavyMachineryCost":1,
	#Just don't set those two above to zero or less. Because... you can't really set it to zero without the whole thing bamming and crashing.
	
	#These determine how civilian ships are increasing the bonus of your supply forging, civilian frigate provide +5%!
	"SF_Frigate":0,
	"SF_Destroyer":0,
	"SF_Cruiser":0,
	"SF_Capital":0,
	
	"SF_Input":false, # Should the modifier affect the input? (Metal and Heavy Machinery Cost)
	"SF_Output":false, # Should the modifier affect the output? (Supply)

One suggestion: sound does not travel in space, therefore having your ship be easier to detect doesn't make much sense. You're not outputting a bunch of energy, either, as creation of supplies from metal using heavy machinery wouldn't require anything but bending and forging, etc. Manual labor. Supplies are supposed to be things you use to fix up your ship (in-universe roleplay, at least). That wouldn't be something that's dangerous, but rather necessary, where the danger lies in leaving unprepared or incapable.

It's more like an increased heat signature that they are detecting from.

Oh, the first part threw me off, with the hastag "this equates to 3 supplies!" with a 1.0. Wasn't sure if that also needed to be changed.

Heat signatures are from insanely powerful engines and stars and such. 100% increase to visibility because some dude is in a metal shop inside the confines of a safety space shouldn't increase the heat signature of their entire 30 ship fleet by double. At any rate, i can always turn that part off, but wanted to mention it was a very odd downside. Cheers.

[Ontheheavens]

One suggestion: sound does not travel in space, therefore having your ship be easier to detect doesn't make much sense. You're not outputting a bunch of energy, either, as creation of supplies from metal using heavy machinery wouldn't require anything but bending and forging, etc. Manual labor. Supplies are supposed to be things you use to fix up your ship (in-universe roleplay, at least). That wouldn't be something that's dangerous, but rather necessary, where the danger lies in leaving unprepared or incapable.

Heat signatures are from insanely powerful engines and stars and such. 100% increase to visibility because some dude is in a metal shop inside the confines of a safety space shouldn't increase the heat signature of their entire 30 ship fleet by double. At any rate, i can always turn that part off, but wanted to mention it was a very odd downside. Cheers.

You might want to read this:

https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/stealth-in-space/

Long story short, everything in space that expends energy has to radiate it, and therefore has heat signature. Then again, forging commodities (in any reasonable way) is certainly not "some dude is in a metal shop inside the confines of a safety space". Even in the real world factories today you don't see any dudes in a metal shop hammering away as a routine production procedure. Cutting, milling, machining is all done with automated or semi-automated machines which require copious amounts of energy to function. Now autoforges and nanoforges of Starsector? Forget about dudes altogether, this has to be a process where humans are there chiefly to press a button. Not to mention that in the lore of the game the tech of setting up factories on spaceships is not something that polities of the Sector possess.

The point here is that the notion of space ship flaring up like crazy when there are industrial-scale production processes going on inside is completely reasonable.

[strinn]

Hi there, I've noticed something while playing with the mod: the hullmods can only be installed on ships with base cargo capacity of over 200/400, which means mods that use the same ship but different variant for cargo and fuel such as Apex Design Collective cannot benefit from these mods. The ships I'm talking about in this example are the Spectrum series

[Siffrin]

I was thinking of making a mod similar to this, until I noticed this in your signature over on the TMI post. How would I adjust the settings to just take 50 Metal with 1 Heavy Machinery and 1 Fuel to create 5 Supplies, without taking market prices, ship bonuses or any values into account? That was what I was going to make, something super simple and clean, without fractions (I'm a bit OCD).

Code

	"SF_MetalConversionRate": 1.0, #This equates to 3 Supplies!
	"SF_MetalCost":50,
	"SF_HeavyMachineryCost":1,
	#Just don't set those two above to zero or less. Because... you can't really set it to zero without the whole thing bamming and crashing.
	
	#These determine how civilian ships are increasing the bonus of your supply forging, civilian frigate provide +5%!
	"SF_Frigate":0,
	"SF_Destroyer":0,
	"SF_Cruiser":0,
	"SF_Capital":0,
	
	"SF_Input":false, # Should the modifier affect the input? (Metal and Heavy Machinery Cost)
	"SF_Output":false, # Should the modifier affect the output? (Supply)

One suggestion: sound does not travel in space, therefore having your ship be easier to detect doesn't make much sense. You're not outputting a bunch of energy, either, as creation of supplies from metal using heavy machinery wouldn't require anything but bending and forging, etc. Manual labor. Supplies are supposed to be things you use to fix up your ship (in-universe roleplay, at least). That wouldn't be something that's dangerous, but rather necessary, where the danger lies in leaving unprepared or incapable.

It's more like an increased heat signature that they are detecting from.

Oh, the first part threw me off, with the hastag "this equates to 3 supplies!" with a 1.0. Wasn't sure if that also needed to be changed.

Heat signatures are from insanely powerful engines and stars and such. 100% increase to visibility because some dude is in a metal shop inside the confines of a safety space shouldn't increase the heat signature of their entire 30 ship fleet by double. At any rate, i can always turn that part off, but wanted to mention it was a very odd downside. Cheers.

I agree that it isn't realistic but it's clearly a decision made to balance it so you don't constantly have it turned on.

[tantananan]

Does this work on the new version of the game?

[Blacknsilver]

I only changed the version history ("0.96a-RC8") and I haven't ran into any issues in ~10 hours of using the mod.

[MattyK]

I only changed the version history ("0.96a-RC8") and I haven't ran into any issues in ~10 hours of using the mod.

Thank you for this confirmation, I'll report back if it runs into any mod conflicts.

[BaBosa]

Would it be possible to set a minimum amount of metal and machinery so it turns off before consuming everything and some is left for making comm relays and sensors? That'd be really cool, this is a standard mod for me and it is otherwise perfect.

[MattyK]

Confirming here, I've been using this mod for several hours as well and haven't run into any glaring issues.

Simply change the version number in the mod_info.json from 0.95.1a to 0.96a-RC8 and enjoy.

[BaBosa]

Rather weird considering supplies also consist of rations, clothing and such. Breakfast? Metal. Yum!

I think supplies don't include food and instead include replacement parts for a hydroponics or other food producing system. Same with air and water production.