A lot to unpack here.
1. I say make the expansion unlimited. The effort to xfer goods 200 or more LYs is high and that effort should exist and be rewarded. The issue here is they have opened up the possibility of having to defend your system from Thargoids who are not happy with our expansion. You want to expand far out? Do so at your own peril.
only if explorers are equally in peril when they venture out into the black.
2. I like it
3. Yes but you have to pay for the location based on how close it is to the star
4. System names should never be allowed, the reason is these systems are named after their real life counter parts and naming conventions do have a mapping purpose.
don't care. fdev can name systems whatever they want whenever they want. i really could not care less if someone's side project gets messed up because the name of some system became customized. it certainly doesn't matter in game.
5. Not very "space sim" for a small outpost to have a T9 which is probably about 1/4 the size of the station parked on it.
why not? the pads are modular, throw it off to the side. even better, just have a large pad and allow medium and small ships to land and waste less space than with multiple small and medium pads. there's plenty of room between tiny single structure outpost and 40 pad space station.
6. I do like the unique address, I also think you should be fully allied to all factions in the systems unless they are contrary to your pledged.
7. ONLY if this tax applies solely to players, not the AI.
yes only players
8. I like it
9. I like it.
10. Not in favor, the rich and connected already have an advantage. It would also be abused to transfer funds to players by simply selling systems at a high rate. This COULD work but if you can auction systems, why not your ship builds? Maybe set it to a cap based on the number of planetary bodies. No auction, just a "Buy Now" set at say $20 million per planetary body? When you put it up you are locked out of claims til 24 hours after it's sale. The claiming player must also have no current claims and cannot give up the claim once bought at auction. It would have no build timer and no option to unclaim so can not be resold.
the rich and connected are already getting whatever systems they want. a public action levels the playing field as much as it can. i really don't care about this idea that we have to make crappy game mechanics to stop cheaters. cheaters are already cheating. players already sell accounts with assets. the lack of fun game mechanics that take advantage of this being a multiplayer game has not stopped them. ultimately their cheating hasn't mattered and won't ever matter. there's billions upon billions of systems...
auctioning the role is just the most fair way to transfer it. letting players pick who to give it to is much more likely to be abused in ways that can be strategized. they would have no control or visibility of the auction until it was over. sure, probably only rich players would win many auctions, but then the other player is now rich. and so on.
alternatively it could be a random pick from the top 10 bidders. but beyond that, i don't really see how it swings the scales any more towards rich connected players than the mechanic already in. the point is to give players an out if they want to take it.
11. How about this. If a player is allied with a faction, they can go to systems they own, say within 30 LYs and "generate" missions for players to run via that factions mission board and they broadcast across all of the factions missions boards within that 30LY. You can offer bounties in your system or goods deliveries and you have to kick in say $20 million per mission and cap at maybe 5 total missions active at a time with no refunds if you cancel, abandoned missions merely reset)
i don't think you should already have to be an architect. construction or colonization ships should just offer escort missions that are bringing goods that will count directly to the players requirements. the more ships in a mission the harder it is and if you successfully bring them in safe what arrives counts and they would be full cargo ships. if you lose a ship, you not only get fined for each cargo manifest and ship cost but those level of missions will spawn less frequently for a while.
something like that. where you defend the convoy against a gauntlet of pirates that scale in difficulty based on size of convoy.
npcs truck your cargo, so long as you can defend them. this should be balanced so that large convoys are hard and the escort missions last like 15 min or 20 min each.
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