[RFE] Education - Send students for “local” education in other systems

[psikomonkie]

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Allow us to send students to other systems for that system’s “local” education. Ideally it’ll default to our homeworld.

derrickthefirst on Discord suggested that it be possible to send students for “standard” education at our homeworld.

I also don’t like sending students to local education when on an offensive contract, so this provides an option beyond prestige or in-company training.

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[LadyAdia]

We could possibly reuse the prestigious education implementation for this, but I'd need someone more familiar with the code to weigh in on it.

[IllianiCBT]

This would require a significant rework of how we parse what academies are available. As all Local Academy academies are available in all systems with a population allowing users to expand their search beyond current system would increase load exponentially.

[psikomonkie]

This would require a significant rework of how we parse what academies are available. As all Local Academy academies are available in all systems with a population allowing users to expand their search beyond current system would increase load exponentially.

I see the issue, I was hoping it'd be possible to only load the local academy list for whatever systems we're interested in.

[IllianiCBT]

Yeah, the curriculum picker is a hack and not how I would have implemented it today.

[HobbitDerrick]

My stupid and lazy idea for this was:

Add "Homeworld" to the unit definition.
Set that to Galatea at campaign start.
When the Unit is not under Contract, the Homeworld can be changed through the Interstellar map.
Local Academy education of dependents (only) is diverted to the Homeworld.

I think this handles all of what psikomonkie wanted. I hope it's simple but maybe it's not - I haven't read the education module code, but from the outside it seems to save the location of the Local Academy provider when a student is assigned to a course?