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Easier Grid Takeovers

This mod was completely inspired by the great work of Meridius IX/Lucas and Ensou with their similar concept https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1172408535. At one point theirs wasn't working, so seeing as I missed it a lot I banged together this one. It uses a different approach so it doesn't share any code, just the inspiration (thanks guys.)

In essence, once all control seats (including cockpits) and remote controls on a grid have been taken over, all the other functional blocks will progressively change their ownership to match, automatically. There are a few differences, if you're used to Easy NPC Takeovers:

* Cryo chambers and passenger seats do not count as control blocks, nor do toilets, desks, couches, etc. If you can steer a ship directly from it, or it's a Remote Control, it counts. Hint: if it has no LCD it's not a control block.
* Other blocks don't all change simultaneously, but rather one at a time per control block, at around 2 sec intervals
* Multiple players from one faction can hack blocks and the takeover will occur
* It's not restricted to NPC grids - PvP players can use this to take over other players' grids
* Each "converted" block will have ownership set to the player who owns the control block doing the converting, and will be set to No Share. This is because all players not in a faction, are considered to be in a "null" faction, so it's kind of a lockdown precaution
* Converted blocks will not count towards the new owners' block limits or PCU count. This is a plus on my servers as I set low limits as an incentive to capture NPCs and obtain their gear. Not sure if this is changeable, modders/devs give me a yell if you know how as I could make an alternative version.

UPDATE: I have added PCU transfer in a couple of other mods... basically whomever owns the majority of blocks on a grid (i.e. if you can rename it) will acquire all PCU on that grid.

Mod compatibility & info
* Should work with modded cockpit and remote control block types which inherit vanilla ObjectBuilder types
* Because light blocks, passenger seats, thrusters, wheels don't have ownership, they're excluded from the conversion checking process. Modded blocks derived from one of these types probably won't convert. I think it's unlikely someone will make a block based on one of these which actually needs ownership.

Detailed mechanics of operation, in case anyone actually cares lol:
Hack a control block and it goes into "ready to convert" mode, for 5 minutes. During this time it conducts a check every 2 sec of all the other control blocks on its grid - if even one has different faction ownership, it doesn't do anything. If they ARE all the same faction, it'll get a list of all functional blocks on the grid belonging to another faction, and convert a random one to its faction. Once the grid is all one faction, it will reset completely (it will also reset after 5 mins to save resources.) Obviously if there are multiple control blocks, the conversion will happen pretty quickly as they each operate separately.

During the conversion period an enemy can attempt to stop the process by grinding any control block. Once it hits the "functional" line it will stop converting blocks, and once it's below the "hacking" line all the others will stop too.

Tested working on a dedicated server. Enjoy!