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RandomMine Delta

Disclaimer:
This is a modification of the original Mod RandomMine made by Andro.
He gave permission to modify his mod and to share it.

tl;dr;
This mod adds a new ship order for miners, which allows them to mine for player stations, which require ore they could mine. If it is unable to provide any player stations it will mine something first and then try to sell it to the player station or npc stations.

The long description:
The general idea is to have this mod solve all your mining needs for your stations and even provide a profit, when they are done doing that by mining for npc stations. This behaviour can be customized with the order parameters.

You can get started using the new mining order "RandomMine" with just a single ship.
Afterwards you expand to fleets, where you have one mining ship as the leader and this is where you set all your RandomMine order parameters.

Therefor the usual workflow is the following:
- Get some Mining ships. The ship size is not important here, but I use different fleets for M and L miners.
- Form a fleet with only miners.
- Set the Default order of the fleet commander to RandomMine
- if you use it with it's default options, it will only serve your stations and it will operate in the area centered around the ship position
- Check the "Update subordinates" option and hit confirm

What will happen then is, that the commander will set the default order for all of it's subordinates to randommine as well and copy it's own settings to it.
If you later add new subordinates or change settings on the commander and want to copy them again, then just check the Update option again or wait, since the order will automatically copy the settings once per hour to it's subordinates automatically. The copy action will only happen, when the current orders from the commander are done and it processes it's default order again. So if you want to speed it up, you can cancel the current orders the commander has and it will do the copy action immediatly.

Important:
The miner will select which station to serve based on the buy price of the station!
So I recommend to use set the buy price to auto, so that the buy price will serve stations with the least items first, instead of trying to get one station to 100% full and another is starving at 0% supplied.
In order for the buy order to even be visible to the mod make sure that the station has some funds!
It does not need the full estimated fund level, but just have an eye on it and if a station does not get any ore, then increase the funds that the station has.
Also, please make sure that you don't use this and the original RandomMine mod at the same time, since they will conflict! It should be possible, to switch between them.

Order Options / Parameters:
- Supplier: The ship will supply your own stations buyorders
- Free Miner: The ship will mine something first and then try to sell it to your own station and if none wants it to an npc.
You can enable both Supplier and Free Miner at the same time or only either one. It will prioritize the supplier role.
- MinerHome & HomeBound: Used to change the operation area of the mining ship. When disabled it will operate around the current ship position, when it tries to find new work. You can set it to a sector to bind it to an operation area.
- The three distance settings depend on the pilot level. The range will increase with it's level.
- Wares: here you can restrict it to specific wares or just leave it on the "All Wares" option and have it add all supported automatically.
- Factions: Here you can select, which factions it's allowed to sell wares to.

Sidenotes:
- I sometimes had the issue that ships got stuck on the mining order and didn't to anything, because the ore they mined was depleted. So I added a stuck ship detection logic, which will cancel the current mining order of the ship, if it has been stuck for an hour.
- The ships have information about what they did in their ship log.

Sourcecode:
I have published the source code of this mod at: https://github.com/Nivalux/X4Mods