Some Questions:

1. Is the slot count for military ships checked in the code or is this simply a guideline for modders?
2. There are civilian ships in different sizes defined in the SDKGlobalDesigns.lua (small, medium and large) - what slot counts are these expected to fill? I assume small = 1-5, medium = 6-10, large = 11+?
3. Is there a way, other than "IsGrouped = false" to allow ships for pirates only? For example if someone wants to create a lot lower-end ships for the early game pirate encounters. From the files documentation I'd assume pirates use "Global Faction" and thus can never use "Global Items" which everything that is not grouped would fall under?


Feature Request (probably related to the Overhaul Core More than this pack):

1. Could the main mod be extended to allow faction specific plans for all categories (e.g. civilian ships or stations) - reason being that if someone wanted to e.g. make Ships / Stations from the X-Series you couldn't do it completely right now (because those races have race specific ships and stations, e.g. borons have their own civilian trade ships and trade stations for example) Perhaps in the Settings Table there could be a Subtable that defines which of the Design Categories are loaded as "Faction Pack", e.g.

Settings =
{
IsGrouped = false,
Name = "",
isFactionSpecific =
{
Corvettes = false.
TradingPosts = true.
...
}
},

(of course it would contain all Design Categories preset to their default behaviour, e.g. "Corvettes" would be true)

2. Would it be possible to make some sort of Faction Name Filter (perhaps supporting the lua gmatch format or something along those lines) in the settings aswell? So that you could say extend(!) the Xsotan, Pirates, the Black Market Clans or other future named factions that may turn up? E.g.

Settings =
{
IsGrouped = false,
Name = "",
factionFilter = "...here be a gmatch compatible string..."
},

@Engine Of Darkness,

I can add those features. It will take a while to do based on the list of things I have on my plate. I like the idea and will put it on the to-do-list.

I've added Miners and Freighters to the guidelines above. Also, if a pack "isGrouped = true" the designs are still added to the Global pool for anyone to pull from in case there are designs missing in other people's packs.