As a semi-temporary measure could the conquerable stations buy ores at minimal prices instead of 0.

Ok, but require that owner previously "deposit" credits and purchase price for desired items.

like, transfer 100,000c to station and it will purchase ores X and Y from whoever dock, until credits ends.

So, back to space mall idea. Why limit to ore?

Alloh, I think the point is to make stations let us sell the ore for a profit. They aren't 'space malls,' they definitely aren't open to any wandering passer-by. Quit thread highjacking. Go make your own 'space mall' thread, and if you already did, let it still be dead..

He's talking about the station store thread that Strat made. I'm surprised you missed it.

This almost seems like an oversight on the dev's part, that the stations can't buy ore. It definitely seems like something that they should add.

Im just suggesting that the stations pay at least rock bottom prices for ore untill the Devs get around to whatever they have in mind.

Just a little bit of low hanging fruit....

why would they do this? so you have a perfectly safe sector to mine in and then sell the ore at for 0 risk and an infinite amount of money? The stations don't buy anything cause you own them. You would be paying yourself for the ore that you mined.

like I proposed.

Absolutely not. If you want YOUR station to buy things, you put up YOUR money to pay for it.

so you have a perfectly safe sector to mine in and then sell the ore at for 0 risk and an infinite amount of money?

We need more incentive to own them anyway. rock bottom prices isn't really infinite.

If you want YOUR station to buy things, you put up YOUR money to pay for it.

Is the station completely automated, or is there any staff/workers? They might purchase the ore for rock bottom prices.

"Is the station completely automated, or is there any staff/workers?"

I suppose that is a fair question. However, I think it is safe to say that once the station is taken... any station crew on the station works for the people who have taken it. Or in THCs case, the station workers are killed, cooked and eaten. Not in that order.

True, ryan, the workers would work for whoever takes the station. How does this change anything? They still may want the ore.

OP is too fucking stupid for words.

Mrs. Lector, care to elaborate on what your thinking and why you feel that way? I'm sure there's a good reason and I would hate for you to not have the chance to add relevance to your point.

@ryan - I would be happy to finance the station buying ore from other players - It would make me far more then you could imagine. Until that happens I would like to get at least a token payment for the ore I mine just like at any other station.

0 risk mining at conquerable stations? What game are you playing Pey? You and your buddies are the biggest mining risk of all.....

Infinate money from mining? You mean from the least productive way to make money in VO? Even if there were massive helio roids at each station and I received top doller for every load I still would not be making money half as fast as I could by any other means in VO. Get real.

If you are going to post objections please at least make them half way plausible.

@Lecter - Your post was the most worthless of all. I still dont know why your even here since you dont seem to have even one single contribution to make other then posting derogatory remarks clearly in violation of the TOS. Why dont you grow up and move out of your mothers basement instead of bothering those who actually try to make a contribution to VO?

Massive FAIL Lecter boy. Go play and leave the adults to talk.

The idea that any of you mouth-breathing public charity cases could be classified as "adults" is laughable. Of course, it's unsurprising that your sort of barely self-aware leeches would think that getting limitless credits for nothing and without risk would be a good idea.

So...are you implying that you don't breath through your mouth Mrs. Lecter? I mean how does that work? Do you only breath through your nose like all the time? I dunno why mouth-breathing is a bad thing but I find nothing wrong with taking the occasional breath through my mouth.

"I would be happy to finance the station buying ore from other players..."

Good.

"...It would make me far more then you could imagine..."

Who cares.

"...Until that happens I would like to get at least a token payment for the ore I mine just like at any other station."

Tough, because it is not any other station. Its your station. There is no logical reason for your station to pay you for anything.

So, it's better be ignored than insulted.

Lets consider that ConqStations are automated devices. Like a big stationary ship. Since it have no B2B established, like nation, corps' stations, it have no banking integration.

But it still can run a "local bank" for automated transactions. And buy/sell/repair for player-established prices. Station will sells only items that players have sold to it, and will purchase items the owner have requested using credits either paid or given to station bank.

Scenario:
-P1 conquers station S1, distribute keys as will
-P1: /station S1 givemoney 1,000,000c
-P1: /station S1 purchase list{item,value}
---{I1,10000;I2,10}
-P2 docks many times to S1 with infinte supply of item I1. Station purchases 100 I1 @10000c. Station funds reaches 0.
-P3 docks to station and sees: 100x I1 @11,000c. He purchases 90, station funds raises to 990,000c.
-P4 docks to station, sees: 10x I1 @11,000c. He purchases all remaing I1, and sells 50x I2 @10c. Station funds are 1,050,000c.
///
-P5 conquers station: He loots 1,050,000c and 50xI2... or not.