Toggleable components and facilities

[ekolis]

What do you want to see?
Components and facilities should be toggleable. In SE4 there are cloak/decloak commands but this could be expanded to toggle any component or facility.

How would it help players?
Use cases:

• Toggle cloaking devices like in SE4
• Disable engines to slow down your ship but save fuel (like Stars!)
• Disable warp blocker facilities for one turn to open a warp point
• Rework resource converters to convert X number of resources per turn automatically unless disabled?
• Modded active sensors that detect cloaked enemy ships but have some negative effect on your own ship

Alternatives
Individual toggle commands for each type of component? Toggles at the ability level instead?

Misc notes
There need to be rules defined (AbilityRules.txt?) to determine which abilities are disabled when disabling a component/facility. For instance disabling an engine should slow down your ship but not reduce your supply storage. Also maybe a field on components and facilities to say whether or not they can be toggled?

[ekolis]

If we want to get really fancy, we could define custom states for each component/facility/etc so you could for instance overload your shields, but that would probably be crazy :P

[ekolis]

I guess the custom states would be similar to mounts?