Dedicated salvage ship or drone for destroyed ships

[Nanook]

I always liked the idea of being able to salvage big hulks or derelicts for prime materials and once a while some random oddities.

Or dismantling them in the hangar of your carrier. Once there was a X3R script allowing to do such operation where instead os selling badly damaged ships you could strip them for resources or start slowly fixing them by consuming resources.

You mean like the player HQ in TC/AP?

[Requiemfang]

I always liked the idea of being able to salvage big hulks or derelicts for prime materials and once a while some random oddities.

Or dismantling them in the hangar of your carrier. Once there was a X3R script allowing to do such operation where instead os selling badly damaged ships you could strip them for resources or start slowly fixing them by consuming resources.

You mean like the player HQ in TC/AP?

Wasn't the Aran such a ship? Sure it was a dedicated capital meant as a mobile repair bay but if I remember correctly you could also have the thing salvage and recycle vessels.

[Alan Phipps]

@ Requiemfang: You must be thinking of a mod or reading too much into a lore-type description. In vanilla gameplay the Aran was just a big slow but jump-capable carrier that had the advantage of being able to externally dock a couple of capital ships besides the generous internal docking and cargobay. It had no PHQ-type functions, not even repair.

[Requiemfang]

Yeah I think you're right, in vanilla at least. I think there was a mod that made the ship have the salvage command where it broke ships down into their base resources. Was a nice mod to have when you have ships coming out of your eyeballs with the bailing scripts installed.

[ExtraTitanian]

That'd be pretty legit. Especially when combined with some sort of realistic damage modeling that'd dictate how much you could salvage and of what components, or even what portions/percentages of a blueprint it could give you. Unless the ship was totally obliterated by overwhelming firepower that is.

[Honved]

Of course, the chances of salvaging anything beyond raw materials should be fairly low, as in perhaps a 25% chance of recovering a single functional item on a fighter, and perhaps 40% for one item on a capital ship and 10% chance of recovering two items. The value of raw materials probably shouldn't exceed 1% of the cost of the ship, if even that much.

More importantly, it should be possible to repair damaged (not destroyed) ships over time, given the raw materials and labor, without access to a shipyard. I'm thinking along the lines of 1% per hour or so for a capital ship or station, with a full repair team, and requiring resources costing about half of what the shipyard would charge for the repair. Basically, cheaper to DIY, but a lot slower (but less mind-numbingly tedious than floating there with a repair laser for an hour, and less cheezy than putting a weight on the firing button and walking away for a while).