I don't really have much of a problem with pirates using this pack's ships, just that they are preferred by pirates over other factions. I've also noticed that stations from this set occasionally spawn with no cargo bays, rendering them non-functional.

I wonder why that might be that pirates love these ships? Or if there's some way of excluding them from using these?

It's been ages since I did any work with this pack, so I'm afraid I don't have much useful input here. Been ages since I played the game at all, TBH.

Just like mentioned by CaptPatrick01 below, almost all pirate ships, SWOKS, and so many other factions are using this faction's ships that I am super tired of seeing these ships. Don't have this with any other faction ships. Beware.

How do you build faction ships at their shipyards? I can't find anything online. When I go to one of their faction shipyards the "build ship" button just gives me the normal ship menu with the random vanilla ships.

Pirate factions seem to like using this pack's ships a lot. As awesome as the ships look, they are so squishy as not to be that fun to fight even on the harder difficulties, yet so numerous in tiny outer blocks and framework chunks as to be a pain to salvage with little to gain or chance for loot outside of the largest pirate mothership spawns. Perhaps replacing the frameworks with armor could bump their HP up enough to allow the player to tear more holes into their hulls before they explode. I've only had a ship shatter in a satisfying way once (Which I only noticed because it produced a sizable lag-spike), though I do find the wrecks looking all hollowed out pretty cool, though that also isn't often.

You can probably also just extract the designs from the BP at the file level, only it's been a little while since I played so I forget the exact specifics.

@SgtHavick from the dev team, on the official forums:

"Posted August 7, 2021

2.0 beta now allows pressing F6 at the menu screen to capture the blueprint of the ship/station shown there.

You can also use that faction's shipyard to build their ships, and any station founders you build from that shipyard will have the option to use their station blueprints on founding. Doesn't work for mines, obviously."

Is there any way to be able to download these ships as blueprints also love the pack

is there a place i can DL the Gatwa stations to use

@DV-1stCav - Thank you for picking up on that!

Really is crazy how these bugs are all coming out now instead of when this went up, but at least this will all be sorted out before the next one!

Yep, your missing commas in the station and ship sections. just put them in both and it started with no crash.

just looked at another faction pack and they have commas behind the ships. gonna try that real quick.

um, ran into a server crash due to line 14 on the faction lua.

Execution Context (inner to outer):
#0: initialize data/scripts/galaxy/server.lua
could not execute function 'initialize' in '"data/scripts/galaxy/server.lua"':
C:/TCAFiles\Users\redacted\19864\galaxies\galaxy1\workshop\content\445220\2700459679\factionpack.lua:16: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 14) near '"Gatwa_Heavy_Gunship.xml"'
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'old_dofile'
[string "..."]:24: in function 'dofile'
data/scripts/lib/factionpacks.lua:15: in function 'initialize'
data/scripts/galaxy/server.lua:13: in function

The lua section its stating is...
ships =
{
"Gatwa_Standard_Gunship.xml"
"Gatwa_Heavy_Gunship.xml"
"Gatwa_Auxiliary_Torpedo_Ship.xml"
"Gatwa_Auxiliary_Scout.xml"
"Gatwa_Boarding_Ship.xml"
},

Any idea? it looks like the section is properly closed to me but maybe im missing something?

@Steiner: Should be fixed now - thanks for the update.

Kind of amazed it has over 500 subscriptions but no one noticed this yet!

I've also noticed that some mod descriptions do contain separate paragraphs, but they probably have to be code manually, maybe using pillcrows ( ¶ ) or something along those lines.

Also, the description in the modinfo.lua is not the correct format. After doing some troubleshooting, I was able to get the mod to work and display properly. The description needs to be a single line of code, contained by quotation marks. Using enter to create a paragraph space is technically a different line of code, and it does not recognize it. Removing the extra space and making the description a single line seems to have fixed the issue.

Besides the little code errors, great job on the pack!

Hey man. Just so you have a heads up, because of the ID that you manually put in, the mod does not appear properly when trying to load it via the in-game mod menu. The workshop id in the modinfo.lua should match the file number that it was assigned during creation. The file number, after taking a long time to look for it, is 2700459679

If you want to try to update it so it shows properly, changing the line that says id = "SDB-FP-001" to id = "2700459679" should enable it and allow it to show up properly in the mod menu.

normally im not a fan of gun boats. but man this is so good. love it.

I like these man, good job!

in which case I shall try my best to be nice to them, can never have enough allies!

@Castor - Maybe ;)

I'm trying to give each of these factions a little bit of a story, while deliberately leaving space for lots of different interpretations. After all it's the player who will really create the story of their game as they play. :D

I absolutely adore this ship aesthetic! I can't quite put my finger on it, but they just look benevolent to me. perhaps the rounded edges give off an aura of friendliness? either way, I look forward to experiencing these in-game!

@TESLA Thank you! High praise from a very experienced modder!

Awesome looking builds! Block counts aren't crazy either, so should be awesome to play with!