Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?

[Invader Zim]

I was wondering:

Is it possible to create a ship component that will give research/intelligence points?

Similar to the research lab ship component from MOO 2 if anyone remembers that?

Anyone know how to do something like this?

[Tampa_Gamer]

Invader, we tried this early on when the game came out and others have tried this every now and then. The short answer is no. You can put the abilities on a new component and get it on a ship, but they will not accumulate points b/c of the way it is hard-coded. The P & N mod crew might have found a way around this though. . .

[ June 06, 2002, 21:44: Message edited by: Tampa_Gamer ]

[Suicide Junkie]

The P&N mod "crew" is just one me.
To answer the question:

Ship based research = Boarding Parties + SpaceYard

Ship based intel = N/A
(If you don't have planets, you don't have political contact with aliens, and thus you cannot harm or be harmed by intel ops)

[Invader Zim]

Thanks...Though Im not sure I understand how the P&N crew mod works...or how you get rp out of boarding parties & a spaceyard...

I dont know that many intricacies of the game yet

[dmm]

He is being funny. He means pirates and nomads don't do research themselves. Instead, they steal (extract) it from captured (liberated) ships.

[Phoenix-D]

"or how you get rp out of boarding parties & a spaceyard..."

Board the ship, capture it, take it to a shipyard and use the analyze function. You gain at technology if the ship is more advanced than what you have