a small add to economy of bases:
each base has monthly nearly constant expenses:
- maintenance
- crew salary
- taxes
- deffence forces/equipment

The expenses of a large base are much bigger than expenses of a small one. So you can develop your base only until it makes profit.
A prospering base is a target of pirat raids even if you spend lot of money on deffence. The raids cause extra outcome because the base losts some goods and have to spend extra money for repairs, reequipment.

My god. The evils of the search button become apparent.

woah... 2 year old gravedigging... why not any of the 14 billion newer "Player-owned stations" related topics?

Just as a suggestion, darvud, if you're going through pages 40+ to find a topic, you might be looking too far back.

Maybe he like the way this one was put better than all the others.

or the fact that it's linked from the "Please read before posting a suggestion" thread...

bump!

The Coalition Of Itan would very much like to BUY a new station. We'd pay for it in VO credits, or even USD!

Just a small station. One entry port. Perhaps in an asteroid (wouldn't that be cool). Something like this:



EDIT:

Yeah, exit port is on back ;-)

One with appropriate standing could dock and home in it. Ships would repair at a cost (helps maintain station) and no equipment would be available so you'd have to haul in any ships you'd want to use whenever you blow up.

Of course, you'd still require a gov bus in there in case you run out of ships. but that's it.

Let's have SF's that pilot busses. And could you mine the station? What's in the 'roid?

In our case, it'd be "Itan Ore"!

Eh. Just kidding. Any crappy ore like aquean or ferric. Perhaps denic too (ah!).

I suppose it'd be simpler not being able to mine it, cause it's a station object, not a roid object per say.

If I mine it to 1000000k will it fry all the itani's inside?

We have AC.

ROTFL, nice one. I want such station located in a forgotten roid field for myself. ;)

The station should be in Divinia I-1 or J-1 (I forget which is the unlabeled worthless 'roid field. ;)

In regards to the destruction of player stations. Give them a purchaseable strike force that can be bought like an upgrade. Once obtained, the SF will launch whenever the station is attacked. Then you could purchase certain upgrade for your SF like seekers etc.

I know this isn't something we could expect to see any sooner than 2 years or so in the future. But a cool idea.

I guess this is the one they picked for player created stations. Let's get started shall we?

Someone said started, I think? What happened to starting?

Soemone cast resurrect thread. Cleric!

It would be cool to have tiny stations only a little expensive, like, say, 10 million (not bad for a station) but you can only have one in each nation. These "micro-stations" would be only be build-able on ceratin parts of a sector, so you would end up with the condominium effect. Probably too hard for the devs though.

I forgot to mention that these micro-stations would be quite destructible.

OMG, I suggested this all the way back in feburary and you people called me "stupid", and said that player owned stations were "really dumb"!!!

What is WRONG with you people?!?

Well, personally I feel sick. I've got a headache or something, so if you could just cut straight to the issue, we'll give you our feedback. Please, don't insult me. I feel like I'm going to throw up.