Traveling Teladi

Description

From beacon to beacon the Traveling Teladi flies... 

Allows equipping a TT beacon (Traveling Teladi) at wharves and drop them anywhere.

The Traveling Teladi flies from beacon to beacon in sequence and allows your M and S ships to hitch-a-ride. At every beacon, the Traveling Teladi will stop to clip its nails. This takes 5 minutes...(see 1. 2 update list below to configure) That should be long enough for your M and S ships to do their trade with the nearby station and hop aboard again before the Traveling Teladi leaves en route to the next TT beacon.

Both purchasing and dropping TT-beacons creates profitsss... for the Traveling Teladi.. they cost more or they cost less depending on the number of beacons deployed and if they are active or not. Destroying or deactivating the beacons (self destruct via right-mouse-click on the map/deactivating) will remove the fee you pay for that beacon (option to not pay anything is available - see 1. 2 update below.

This mod was created for the Expanse mod, (but it can be used in vanilla also) where sectors are huge and ordering or flying S and M size ships through asteroid fields was kinda painful. 

So now, you can do the legwork once, with a fast scout equipped with TT beacons (purchase them at wharves in the equipment section) and deploy those near stations that you are interested in trading with. The Traveling Teladi will then ferry your small or medium trader ship or those under your AI command from beacon to beacon. Wait time at each beacon is 5 minutes.

Update 1. 2 Please read! (and see pictures)

[]Traveling Teladi is now a separate faction. This was required to make the shipicon on the map show up in a specific color. You can change this color by editing the RGB (red green blue) values in the file : 13_Traveling_Teladi\libraries\colors.xml - a website like https://rgbcolorpicker.com/ can help you with choosing the color that fits you best. To view the colors correctly on your map, click the 'Filter Settings' button (the Funnel Icon in the top right), then click on Other Filters (three dots in a circle) and apply 'use faction colours for map. If you don't, the Traveling Teladi icon on the map will show up blue.[/]

[]If you are docked or close to the Traveling Teladi, you can order it to move to the next beacon, and stop its idling. You can either talk to the captain on the bridge or use the 'comms' menu on the map. Then choose 'move to next beacon'. You can change the cost to your liking by changing the value in the  13_Traveling_Teladi\md\ TravTel_Move_Now.xml file by changing the value from 500 to something you like. (<set_value name="$MoveNowFee" exact="500"/>)[/]