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Canteran Refinery Ship (Produces Reinforced Metal Plates)

Compatability
Tested = X Rebirth 3.20, 3.50, 3.53

Additional Required Files
Innes Library Scripts
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=421907253

This File is the Library for Ship Based Production Modules with out it the ship has no production facilities, this was done as part of a massive bug fix for a bug that happens when you have 2 or more different types of my ship( Ice Refinery or well stuff yet to be released.)

Purpose of Mod
Adds a Canteran Refinery Ship for producing Reinforced Metal Plating.

Mod Information
The Refinery Ship is Unique Canteran Ship Design, it is only buildable at the XL Ship Yard in Devries/Glaring Truth/Darned Hot Air. The Refinery Ship Design is based off the Titurel Design framework, but has under gone a massive retrofit. The Refinery Ship now has an onboard Plate Refinery designed to convert the most basic raw materials (Hydrogen, Ions, Plasma, Ore, Nividium) into Reinforced Metal Plating. Its Production Facility, when stocked produces at minimum 20 plates every 3 minutes.

In addition to an oboard factory the Refinery Ship has under gone a total defencive overhaul. its defencive stratagy is designed to eliminate small groups of stock fighters, like the kind typically employed by the reiver raiders. The first goal of the defensive overhaul is to eliminate holes in the defence that allow generators to be destoryed with out the turrets they protect being able to put any firepower on the attacker. The over all design is all about taking away fighters principal advantages, their ability to fly out of the fire and regenerate thier shields. adding guns to cover more of the open area around the ship reduces blind spots meaning that damaged craft have trouble finind a place to regenerate and sucumb to fire, its that simple. the trade off is also simple the ship is so focused on fighting fighters that it has very limited anti capital ship firepower. capital ships are very differnt creatures from fighters, most military capital ships are armed with multiple anti capital ship guns and are designed to shoot from well beyond the range that anti fighter turrets will engage.

This ship is designed to have a crew of 4... manager, captin, engineer, defence officer, each has a purpose. the manager is to control the production module, the module thinks its part of a space station and set up trade ratres and will sell automatically if you don't have a manger govern it. the captin, engineer and defence officers you should have some idea what they do and their purpose is not changed.


unarmed cost currently about 21million, fully armed cost about 28million. the armament details are listed below.

Current Defence Grouping:
Group 1 (Left Side Frount Gun Bank)
Shield Gen MK3
Plasma Cannon
LAR Cannon
Mining Laser
7 X Hit MA Turrets
( divided into 3 banks, banks one and two have 3 turrets and are on the side of the ship, the other turret is right next to the generator providing coverage to the generator)

Group 2 (Right Side Frount Gun Bank)
Shield Gen MK3
Plasma Cannon
LAR Cannon
Mining Laser
7 X Hit MA Turrets
( divided into 3 banks, banks one and two have 3 turrets and are on the side of the ship, the other turret is right next to the generator providing coverage to the generator)

Group 3 (Bottom Frount Gun Bank)
Shield Gen MK3
Mining Laser
4 X Hit MA Turrets
( this group is going to be modified in a later patch to give the generator better protection and to seal the bottom of the ship where the defences are nearly non existant)

Group 4 (Bottom Rear Right Gun Bank)
Shield Gen MK3
3 X Hit MA Turrets
2 X medium engines
( this group is going ot be modified in a later patch to seal the bottom of the ship where the defences are nearly non existant, the pipes obscure this gun banks coverage so they only can shoot away from the ship and not under it going ot maybe add a few and move a few to give a sparce under coverage to discource fighters from staying there...)

Group 5 (Frount Top Gun Bank)
2 X Shield Gen MK3
i10 X Hit MA Turrets ( banks of 5 linning the area around the generator)
2x missle launchers ( non guided i think)
Radar
Drone Bay (150 drone max)
( this group was designed arround protecting the drone bay and the generators up top... i want to do more stuff in this group in the future. but the addons will be minor, this group is already stong enough to rip light military ships up.. the light and heavy sol can launch all they want the guns here decimate their drones before any harm is really done to the shields then the weak cap shield buckle and thats all she wrote for the sol. also this group covers a lot of the other groups shields generators making taking those generators out more of a chalenge)

Group 6 (Bottom Rear Left Gun Bank)
Shield Gen MK3
3 X Hit MA Turrets
2 X medium engines
( this group is going ot be modified in a later patch to seal the bottom and rear angles of the ship where the defences are nearly non existant.)

Group 7 (Rear Gun Bank)
2X Shield Gen MK3
8 X Hit MA Turrets
2 X Engines
Jump Drive
( this group is the main engine defence group it also covers the 2 capital shield gnerators, it provides limited firepower on ship parked in the engine area and covers the top rear of the ship with 2 banks of 3 hit ma turrets. this group and all other rear groups are likely to see additions to their team in the future.)

Main Shield:
4 X MK3 Cap Ship Generators




Crew Needed to Run this Ship Effectively
Manager, Captin, Defence Officer, Engineer

you can get away with just a captin but the ship will act like a station with out a manager in terms of trade.. it will try to sell goods and no one will notify you when it does sell. the rest of the ship functions function like normal, manager function is currently limited as like an advisory role will be pushing that to more involved in the future.


Concerns/Bugs
Ship Managment- working on writing managment function to help manage mining to allow better managment of production.

Transfering Goods NPC controled ships trying to dock and not suceeding. (FIXED)

Production Being Effected at other Plate Refinery Stations- Not an issue any more, it was fixed. this mod uses a different production method than stations.

Changes to Engineers and Managers- Engineers can now be placed on stations, Manager can now be placed on Ships... i think the engineers work the same on stations as on ships,but the manager will not add value to most ships.. his job is to manage production moduals and we hope that when we finsih he can micro manage the plate refinery ship for the player to at least a small amount..


Tribute
This Mod was Inpired by a similiar mod written by dezgard, he was was having trouble with bugs and i liked his mod so much i decided to fix them by totally remodeling the mod, he gave me permission to post this. In an effort to protect his mod from being forgoten i have made his mod compatible with mine, which was a lot of work and when i originally released it was not posible.

also thanks to alexalsp we now should have russian translation.

Sugestions/Feedback
I would love any feedback you give, discussion makes things better in my opinion. also i need to know where things are broke...