A query about adding a station to 4.86

[Sebastian Wolfe]

I understand that, at such a late stage of .86 development that asking for pretty much anything to be added is a long shot in-of itself, so I figured I'd ask the community.

Now, most of my characters are tied pretty closely together, with further ties to AI research. Now, I've been toying with the idea of purchasing a station as a base from which I can continue this in-RP, but I've been unsure as to how I'd go about it.

Ideally, it'd be a small installation within the Quebec system, hidden behind one of the planets so that passersby wouldn't just stumble across it. I chose Quebec as it's out of the way, and somewhat relevant to my character's backstory, having first started programming AIs on the Alma in the same system.

If necessary, I would be willing to give up the Pilgrim I've been using as my research base to make it.

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[Domjan]

Purchasing a station? I thought you can only purchase a system then the stations in the system you purchased.

[fencore]

That's the idea, Punker. Station purchasing hasn't yet been cleared. We tried passing the idea through for OSI and Freeport 14 and that wasn't quite met with a warm reception. And we've got a significant portion of roleplay behind the request, too.

As far as the singular idea of a station being added, I'm dubious as to whether the dev team would pass a station intended, in majority, for a single person's roleplay. For that to happen, it'd most likely need to be a request from a faction, and of course as Punker noted, within a system owned by that faction.

I'm not a dev myself, though, so I could very well be wildly inaccurate in my above statements.

[Prysin]

If this is to happen, your roleplay would have to be stellar, you would most likely have to put it into a system that would be rather empty or insignificant to other factions.

You building that station alone inRP would be possible if you had a fleet of AI ship, but given that the resources needed to build a station is so huge, i doubt you could even explain inRP how you would get all that.

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