I have 9 ships, I can only fly one of them at a time. It would be great if we had missions where minor factions/NPCs would ask to rent out your unused ships. Mission descriptions could be something like this:
Hi! Our latest attempts to kill some of our rivals failed, badly. We would love to borrow your Fer-de-Lance for our next attempt, it would make all the difference according to our battle simulations. Hopefully, we'd return the ship back to you in its original state, but accidents happen, right? Especially in combat.
You would gain credits for renting out your ships, but at a risk - you wouldn't get your full insurance fee back if the ship was destroyed (maybe 75%?) If the ship survived being rented out, it would be returned to your shipyard after an hour or 2.
This would encourage and reward players for multi-ship ownership, but would also annoy minor and maybe major factions if your rented ship was used against them in some way. The risk, and potential rewards, would be yours to accept.
No need just to limit this to combat rental-ship either. If you had a trading Python sitting there eating dust because the game detected you were using your Vulture most of the time pew-pewing in a RES, factions would approach you, asking if they could borrow your Python for a quick run to a outpost. If your Clipper had mining lasers attached, maybe you'd be asked if that could be borrowed to get some resources from a metal-rich ring somewhere.
Hi! Our latest attempts to kill some of our rivals failed, badly. We would love to borrow your Fer-de-Lance for our next attempt, it would make all the difference according to our battle simulations. Hopefully, we'd return the ship back to you in its original state, but accidents happen, right? Especially in combat.
You would gain credits for renting out your ships, but at a risk - you wouldn't get your full insurance fee back if the ship was destroyed (maybe 75%?) If the ship survived being rented out, it would be returned to your shipyard after an hour or 2.
This would encourage and reward players for multi-ship ownership, but would also annoy minor and maybe major factions if your rented ship was used against them in some way. The risk, and potential rewards, would be yours to accept.
No need just to limit this to combat rental-ship either. If you had a trading Python sitting there eating dust because the game detected you were using your Vulture most of the time pew-pewing in a RES, factions would approach you, asking if they could borrow your Python for a quick run to a outpost. If your Clipper had mining lasers attached, maybe you'd be asked if that could be borrowed to get some resources from a metal-rich ring somewhere.
