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[BaBosa]

Someone has suggested this before but it always feels bad when I have to destroy the ships that are being transported as mothballed ships. With other commodities we can capture them but not ships.
It would be nice if your ships ignored mothballed ships mostly and you could claim victory if there’s only mothballed ships left and then capture them.

[Zsar]

Can I upvote this? I would like to upvote this.

Would also be nice, if NPC fleets captured your mothballed ships the same way (e.g. if caught with low CR, so you might want to try and get some of them back after a few days).

[BCS]

That would be hard since it's supposed to be abstract. You don't really know WHAT ships/weapons are these.

[BaBosa]

You do know what ships they have because you see them in the fleet composition as mothballed ships. Weapons in cargo are random.

[Rusty Edge]

It's also very funny to watch the empty mothballed ships fly off and navigate in the campaing layer after you've destroyed all of the crewed escorts.

[Cruacious]

This is an idea I do agree with. Being able to capture mothballed ships would be a nice enticement for pirate style players, or those who are fighting a faction and need some replacement hulls.

[BCS]

You do know what ships they have because you see them in the fleet composition as mothballed ships.

Well, and have you ever seen anything that wasn't low-tech? The icon itself is a Hound.

[Zsar]

Well, and have you ever seen anything that wasn't low-tech? The icon itself is a Hound.

I have attached an image. One can see exactly how many and which hull. These are exactly the (mothballed and other) ships of the fleet. No randomness, no uncertainty. The ships with a red lightning outline are exactly the ships this suggestion concerns itself with, the rest are exactly not.

You can get them in code via

Code

List<FleetMemberAPI> ships = <fleetHandle>.getFleetData().getMembersListCopy();
for (FleetMemberAPI ship : ships) {
  if (ship.isMothballed()) {
    <do stuff>
  }
}