It was different and interesting. M7 should be huge like it once was, it's a shipyard.

--Harpo

Everyone hated having to take forever to fly to/from the docking and launch bays. The size of the station was a challenge for the speed of capships.

I agree, it was very large and somewhat interesting. But, it was also an experiment, and not really a quality asset.

If we bring in a huge and cool shipyard, it should be something newer, and better.

Actually i really liked that old station, even tough i spent quite some time flying all my dent parts there.
The new station just looks like a regular dull one. It used to be a stylish station which really reminded me of a capship factory.

I'd very much would like the old one back, without FOG tough. To diminish the traveling pain, just have multiple places close-by where you can enter/leave, not just way far out.

If you wont restore it, can we have the old station somewhere else without FOG? just as a marvel to look at.

Can we at least get the (S) icon removed for people who haven't completed the reactor mission? M7 is mainly used as a place to fit high-tier weapons that you cannot normally equip (even at corvus) and as a place to kill said people. Even Gauss Mk3 isn't special anymore!

Here is what it looked like, for any who are interested:

https://www.mmorpg.com/photo/98ddbfbd-5423-4e95-af6b-3da01316442e

"If you wont restore it, can we have the old station somewhere else without FOG? just as a marvel to look at."

+1

That station looks amazing..please do bring it back

Put it in edras with bots somewhere as an abandoned station

I think there may be a framerate hit for having that station in a sector without fog.

Then how about in Pel in one of dusty foggy hive bot sectors near C12. Put it 30k out with no beacon. This way, it is kind of an easter egg for players. And also kind of an adventure to find. Almost of rite of passage. I personally remember trying to find the old M7 without any beacon. Old time vets would tell me to look for specific roids and what direction to head after i arrived at said roids. That was fun.

+1 Putting it in a fogged sector in Pel. Give it crazy amount of no charge storage.

I might be missing something, but I don't understand why using the old m7 asset makes it so that it's 30k away? Why not just replace the station assets instead of putting it 30k away again?

Nick, I am not saying to replace any assets. I'm saying to place the old M7 assets in a Pel Hive sector that is fogged (all the surrounding sectors to C12 are also foggy). And place it 30k out so that is an interesting easter egg station to find. Something fun to explore and discover with groups as players.

The current M7 should remain as is.

How about Helios gets some love? Latos, Bractus and Pelatus have a conquerable stations/capital shipyard, Edras has scaffolding, Sedina has race tubes, Odia is a den of scum and villainy, Ukari is a gateway between grey space and two nation sectors and Helios has... a giant sun. If anything, it'd make that area more than just the place to buy an Aelous Behemoth.

I like the Helios suggestion for the old station. Wherever it goes, please put it a good distance from the sector center.

Helios has 2 stations already. A fogged sector in pel would make it fun to try and find.

Pel also has two stations. Fog can be placed anywhere. I think A-Dawg is right that Helios could use something interesting.