My question is this - Is there any way to give a player a pre-selected blueprint in the form of an item or something similar on player creation?
If you mean create your own starter base for them to start in yes its very easy, if you mean here have this blueprint and spawn it yourself then no not yet.
Yea I assumed this wasn't possible, but thought maybe some sort of API mod that could in a sense 'clone' a preselected ship ID number and then 'warp' a structure like a vessel above a players location so it would fall on their head when they do the required command (i.e. lets say EAH is the platform that could possibly addthis - CB:STARTERCV -chat response "Please stand in a safe flat area and say YES when ready - yes or no? - YES - are you sure? yes or no - YES - - boom, cv droppin above you with a chat warning to gtfo the way).
It seems to me that would be a lot like getting a free lunch. A major aspect of the game is leveling up, which only takes a couple of hours) and acquiring enough mats to make your own basic ship or HV. This is all easily done ion your very first day. If we were given a free CV to start then we might as well stay at our base and eat corn dogs while watching por... er... Movies!
Well its not a discussion on whether or not I should give players a CV (which is a personal opinion) I was only asking what mod API abilities could possibly do this if such a thing were possible.
I saw two questions here : if you could give a pre-selected bp at player creation, and 2nd question if you could spawn a CV over a player... For the 1st question only workaround I see would be to teleport to the player location with the EAH and spawn the bp yourself over his head.
HWS has created the best Mods for Empyrion Ive seen when it comes to server helpers / managers. There coding is second to none. Jascha and Rexxxus run the HWS and there also tied very close to the developers with server logs, and other data they share etc, I haven't fully explored there manager but it strikes me its probably capable of doing what you want, it can spawn in Survival packs, and stuff like that, if it doesn't already, its probably well inside of there coding capabilities to make it possible inside there program. It might be your best bet to PM Rexxxus and just ask politely if there server manager is capable of that or if it will in the future.
Oh for sure I already use EAH - I'm in love with that tool, I wish UE4 Game managers ran like it. And I can do what I want to do manually, clone this structure, warp it to player location etc etc, easy peasy. I just wish I could have something like this as a command, it would be so slick to give a player a one time SV starter of ur choice ya know.
