[geoschmo]

Originally posted by DavidG:
I'm wondering if it is poossible to have only one race be allowed to build them and then another could trade for them and upgrade it with components. I'm thinking this would be impossible since I think you would have to be able to build a hull before you can upgrade it.

There is a way. It would be kind of a mess though. We have talked about it for other things before, but it could be applied to this concept.

You could modify all the comps/vehicles/faciliites/units in the game, so that they don't require and Rads to build, only Mins and orgs. Then you mod the space yard faciliites so that they only build with mins and orgs, but you give the Puppetteers a racial tech space yard that can build with all three. Then the pupetteer hull tech can be designed by anyone, so it would be posible to upgrade and stuff by anyone, but it can only be built by someone with a pupetteer space yard. Only problem would be if somone captures a pupetteer planet.

An alternative to that that would be a LOT easier to mod would be make the Pupeteer hull be a really obscene amount of one resource and give the pupeteers a space yard that builds with a lot of that resource. Then the other races could build a puppeteer hull, but it would take a REALLY long time. This would eliminate the need to change all the other ships/comps/facs. Problem with this would be maintenace on the ship. You could give the hull a big maint reduction to bring it back into line with regular ships I suppose though. But it would be a little wacked out. After the maint reduction the maint on your special ship will be all one resourse which is a little odd.

Geoschmo