POB improvement

[FynnMcScrap]

It is possible to consume commodities in a Base to get one single and specified object like a cloak or a PoB upgrade like a factory.

But what about conversion of one or several commodities into a different commodity ?
Like in my excemple from scrap, Premscrap and maby ... fuel and a certain amount of ore or steel into for excemple Hull Pannels ? Even producing ship upgrades like Armour could be interesting. Build my own Smelter... jup, I would love that.

Its not all about availability for me... I would like my Base some day to earn its own money for resupplying. I would still have to haul stuff like a maniac, and I like it that way ;-)

If I then have to get exotic materials like Promethium, or Iridium ore , or if there would be the possibility to further refine the Ores to halfware or endware products... that would give economy a boost !

What about two or more different *upgrade paths* for a PoB ?

Science - Trade - Military ?

After Core 2 you would have to choose witch Path the PoB takes , and would not be able to change that without downgrade it to Core 2 again.

This also links to my suggestion of making a Base downgradeable through siege :
If you reduce a PoB to zero HP it goes inactive, and only an Admin can reactivate it ( and decide if its destroyed or downgraded ) , but you loose all weapon platforms.

So perhaps a military PoB does NOT loose weapon platforms, a Trade PoB is the only one to build a Smelter and a Science Platform is the only one to build cloaks, docking modules and other high-tech stuff ?

I see 2 problems :
developing tools / time
and game balance

I only have ideas ;-)

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FynnMcScrap, Foreman of Tinkers Haven