"Abandoned" Bases

[Cellulanus]

1. Yeah, I think it could definitely help RP. The thing is, I could see player factions 'claiming' these bases and causing trouble. and since there are no NPC's it wouldn't be OORP to base camp.

2. The other thing is, all you could do is dock there. As it is abandoned you shouldnt be able to buy or sell anything, equipment included. You shouldnt even be able to get repairs really...

3. The other issue is if these bases are truly abandoned, who's maintaining them? I mean bases just wont remain operational forever without maintenance.

4. Thought of one more thing too. Stations cost a lot of money. Someone would half to have a pretty good reason for abandoning them, and an even better reason for not scrapping them to re-coup loses.

5. Also why wouldnt some faction set up shop on one of these bases as soon as they found it?

Yeah, gonna have to vote no, sorry.

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1. I see no problem with player factions claiming these stations, no one really owns them in the first place anyways.

2. Sure, why not?

3. It depends, on the one base in Omega 3 it appears to have been abandoned for a few months, and some one left a robot behind that could help maintain the thing so I'd say that FL stations are at least reasonably robust and automated, that and some of the people the frequent them as hide outs might be inclined to patch things here and there.

4. Well, considering that there are dozens of old supply depots and other assorted mining gear scattered across the sector, I'd assume they are built pretty solid and that its more cost efficient to simply abandon the stuff then try to scap it.

Also as for abandoning stations, mining stations would be abandoned when the upkeep cost outweighed the profit, aka when the field runs out of supply's, research stations whenever it turns out that they have no more use for them and old war staging stations would be abandoned when either the war was over, they were over run or simply stopped helping the war effort.

5. There are numerous potential reasons, perhaps the station doesn't really have the ambiances or space required to really be useful, the faction doesn't have the numbers to man the base or its just not in a place where the faction would find it useful.