4.86 Release Date and Teaser

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On player built stations. How is that gonna work. Will you buy on a planet and select location for it? or will it be built piece by piece like in Eve? And will they be destructible?

This is going to be probably the biggest (And greatest) RP development as of yet since factions will constantly be trying to destroy their enemies bases. The events will be endless.

I'll repeat what I remember devs and admins discussing a while back. I believe anyone will be able to place a station anywhere. But, it will require a constant stream of supplies. It can be under attack, but it's defenses will be good if it has supplies. The more supplies a station has, the longer it will last and be more durable against attacks. The station will, i suppose, serve as any purpose the player or faction wishes it to serve. That's what i remember.

A conversation from August with Cannon regarding tech...

[8/14/2011 11:12:08 PM] Matt (Cannon): I guess I can phrase the answer another way.
[8/14/2011 11:12:30 PM] Matt (Cannon): SRPs are coming back but approval from admins or anybody is not required.
[8/14/2011 11:13:05 PM] Caleb Levesque: Ah... so will there be a criteria to fill out then you just post it into the SRP section?
[8/14/2011 11:33:01 PM] Matt (Cannon): No
[8/14/2011 11:33:04 PM] Matt (Cannon): Nothing.
[8/14/2011 11:33:10 PM] Matt (Cannon): Do whatever you like.
[8/14/2011 11:34:31 PM] Caleb Levesque: strange....
[8/14/2011 11:35:05 PM] Caleb Levesque: it will be a madhouse :|
[8/14/2011 11:35:39 PM] Matt (Cannon): Freedom.
[8/14/2011 11:36:07 PM] Caleb Levesque: you think that'll be for the better?
[8/14/2011 11:36:18 PM] Matt (Cannon): Yes
[8/14/2011 11:36:45 PM] Caleb Levesque: there will still be ID restrictions and a tech chart? or no?
[8/14/2011 11:36:59 PM] Matt (Cannon): ID restrictions yes, tech chart no, not really.
[8/14/2011 11:37:29 PM] Matt (Cannon): We are really getting off track. I'm not actually telling you the whole story.
[8/14/2011 11:37:45 PM] Caleb Levesque: ah... so theres more?
[8/14/2011 11:37:48 PM] Matt (Cannon): Will SRPs reopen = no never.
[8/14/2011 11:37:54 PM] Matt (Cannon): This is 100% true.
[8/14/2011 11:38:41 PM] Caleb Levesque: so pretty much.. anyone who can come up with a RP story will have nomnom guns and inferno's?

...and then there was silence :|

Holy mother of... Wow. Well. This will either be the greatest decision ever made, bringing extreme diversity and epic RP experiences to the world of disco.. or.. The worst decision ever made, allowing lolwuts to be 'elite lolwuts' and the current *******s to be more of *******s.

We shall see. I just hope the devs/admins know what they're doing.

EDIT: uhm.. those stars are covering up the 'a' word.. just so everyone knows lol. I hope that's not too bad :S