Zero G Construction

[Dab]

Acutally I was going to add info on things like patrols and stuff after the material listings.

Basically, who mods in the base will be the one deciding on hostile's patrols. Say Outcasts make a base in that Northern Ice field in Tau-37. Well atm there are no IMG ships in that cloud, some BHG but thats it. Now if Outcasts made a base there, is it really plausible that the IMG wouldn't throw as many ships as they could to stop the Outcasts from using it? They'd try to take that thing out at all costs, hence there would be IMG patrols at that new Outcast station. The modder would decide what hostile factions would be there, and in what force. I forgot to add in the previous post that the station constructor should also pay for additional company's patrols, as the faction it belongs to would automatically get patrols. So if IMG made a station in Tau-23's left side, IMG patrols would be added, as would Outcast patrols. But say BSG, the one who would be paying for the base, also wanted Gateway Shippings patrols and transports? BSG would have to pay for that to happen.

Personally if anything should be done to hostile patrols, it should be to increase them IMO, or left alone completely. We shouldn't allow people to delete hostile patrols, it would seriously unbalance the NPC interaction. Remember, a faction can't stop a hostile faction from attacking them, or flying around. They can attack those patrols that do attack or fly around, but there is no way to actually STOP them from doing it in the first place.

About the planets; You are right. In addition to the 5 billion cost for the initial purchase of the planet, you'd have to buy all the space around it, AND you would have to pay for all the materials required to colonize a planet. Even more if its an ice planet or something and has to be terraformed to use it. I'm going to make it cost roughly the same amount in materials as price for a planet colonization, probably 7.5 billion if it needs to be terraformed. But I also think that if another faction wants a station orbiting a colonized planet, the purchase of land wouldn't be purchased from the ZoI owner, or the admins if there is no ZoI owner, but from the planet owner, as that faction owns the space immediately around the planet.

So say we were back to where Manhatten was colonized. There are two stations in orbit there. Say Manhatten wasn't Liberty government-owned, but Ageira owned (Oh wouldn't that make SiN|Tech happy..). Well the owners of Trenton station would buy space from Liberty, who controls the system, but from Ageira, as they are going to be in a 15k distance from the planet.



EDIT: You beat me Kress. I don't think Igiss would go for faction-bought weapons. They would probably end up unbalancing fighters completely, with factions making uber-weapons. If you still want to try to go through with it, I'd suggest making a thread for it in the mod Discussion section. Lets keep this about stations in here, so it doesn't get overly confusing.. This topic is already complex enough.

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