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Hello,

As my fleet is increasing, noticing a randomly destroyed ship is getting harder. Simultaneously, when they get destroyed, I have no idea why.

While creating a "ghost version" to see what happened and what was missing might be a big feature, I'd like to request an option to automatically rebuild destroyed space ships. Could be a check box on Cargo Landing Pad "Rebuild Destroyed Spaceships here".

On any planet if enemies destroy our things, we get ghost objects, so bots either rebuild them, or at least we know what we're missing. With space ships it's much harder to know what's up

You can create an interrupt that will send your space platform to your desired planet when a certain amount of damage has been detected.

Something like this: Hope that helps!

The reason my last ship got destroyed was because it ran out of power cells, and so ammo production ceased. Such an interrupt would not have saved this ship.

Oh wait, you mean you want a planet to automatically build an identical ship in case one is destroyed?

jaylawl wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 12:15 pm Oh wait, you mean you want a planet to automatically build an identical ship in case one is destroyed?

That's what I understand from OP's suggestion : the same way a destroyed building will be replaced by a ghost requesting the building, a destroyed platform could be replaced by a ghost of itself, requesting the materials needed to be built. From the planet it orbits I guess, or from "any planet" if the suggestion to be able to request from any planet is implemented.

I have an intermediate suggestion regarding this:

The game will already inform you with a chat message whenever one of your space platforms is lost due to the hub being destroyed. I propose to append something to that text to make it look like this:

• Your space platform was destroyed by asteroids. [Click here to retrieve the blueprint].

And then of course the game provides you with a blueprint of the state of the destroyed space platform, which it can easily create before applying the damage of fatal blow.