if you want more than one ship, simply make more than one save game. One save game for fighter, one save game for freighter, ect.

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I agree that it's a "must have" improvement. I have an idea of how it could be done, but not the skill to do it. If any modder's want to take up the challenge, here's what I was thinking...

1. Reactivate jump holes to the Tohoku system.
2. Modify the Order Base there as follows:
a. Make ship dealer have spots for 3 ships, with one of them empty.
b. Make it so that any ships sold there stay "on sale" there until bought again.
c. Make all ship values $ 0.00 at this base only (buying or selling).
d. Make all equipment or cargo sold there stay "on sale" there until bought again and also valued $ 0.00 at this base only.

With these modifications in place, you should be able to fly in, trade your ship for another, outfit it and when you come back later, buy your original ship and equipment back again! It would also serve as a player "storage depot", to drop off cargo or weapons for later use. Basically, it would be your own base!

It would be even nicer, if someone could get "The Arch" working in the same manner! Then you'd have a "Home Base" with character. If anyone ever manages to edit the NPC dialogs, you could have the bartender say things like, "Hey there boss, good to see you made it back alive" or "Nothing happening at the moment sir, it's been pretty dead around here".

Throw in a Jumphole to each of the main systems and you've got a nice base of operations! Anyway, that's what I'd do, if I had the skills.

Edited by - Cleric on 03-05-2003 22:28:41

Nice idea there, no idea if it would work or not, but its a start.

Also, Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum, but im at work in my car, and my wireless connection is only 19200 and I didnt feel like trying to reload another forum page.

I assume you're talking about SP here, so you can just keep whatever equipment you want in your hold, even if it's for other ships you like to use. Given the trade-in value of your current ship, and the ease with which you can make money, it's not a big deal to switch ships if you feel like it. I don't think such a mod would be possible without code changes, anyway; the bases are defined with static data.