Who wants a Station for their Minor Faction??

[Veyder]

Who wants a station for their Minor faction?

Frontier has said that building stations is something they have decided they cannot support currently... With the release of Horizons and the ability for planetary landings and the fact that they just built a station due to player intervention may open the gates for others who want the same.

I would like to propose a series of Community Goals to build Stations/Outposts/Planetary Bases for Player Minor Factions. Since the announcement of player minor factions, I have wanted to have our own Ocellus Starport (With the fancy palm trees)

I think having a player created Starport or a base on a planet (with the upcoming release of horizons) would be the pinnacle perk of having a minor faction.


This proposal is co-operative meaning that the groups who wish to either create a station, planetary for their faction or simply rename a station in their space (Assuming FD would let us rename existing stations) would agree to support each other's bid for a community goal.

We are just coming off the heels of a station build... so this would not be something done earlier than a couple of months. But I think if we agreed on a time table for community goals of this nature then everyone could get what they would like.

***Regarding the naming of a station

A lot of the Stations/Outpost in the game are named after famous persons, and more often than not multiple stations are named after the same person which indicates that FD may have ran out of names or just didn't want to bother naming thousands of stations unique names. So I think it is perfectly fair to name a station, the only exception is that you should not be able to rename a station that was named by a Backer

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Although I might be wrong - we might already see exactly that right with the Release of Horizons?
After all, we'll have Ground Bases and some Faction will naturally own/operate them, just like Outposts/Stations I assume...

At least I wouldn't be surprised to log in, check the System Map for the 1st time and see Faction controlled ground bases all over the Planets - even if not all of them can be visited in this Season (Atmosphere/Volcanism).

From that point on, it would be the classic ways of Influence work (however Planetary Bases are implemented into that mechanic) in order to have a Player Faction take it over.

 

[Arry]

This is already happening. Aisling's Angels and Prismatic imperium have stations, or at least a part of a station, in empire space. These game factions appeared about a month ago.

 

[Kicks]

This is already happening. Aisling's Angels and Prismatic imperium have stations, or at least a part of a station, in empire space. These game factions appeared about a month ago.

Yup, and the station Harvestport in Kappa Fornacis, the station to buy Onion Head for the latest CG, is "owned" by the faction "East India Company".

 

[the100thmonkey]

Registered player factions all have a base, which was determined by the system they nominated when they registered.

They can be flipped, just like any NPC faction's station. They're fully-integrated into the BGS.

I've previously suggested that station building should be automated - both initial construction and upgrading - essentially mimicking the current mechanism where the performance in a CG affects the quality of the services and goods available in a starport. Obsidian Orbital is currently the second CG-derived starport, the first is Mercenary's Respite down near Mikunn. Both stations were injected by the developers.

 

[Dommarraa]

Obsidion Orbital was a TOUGH series of CGs, supported very strongly because many people from the general community actually wanted that particular station.
If other player stations require the same level of CGs (and I see no reason that it should be easier), you will probably find it virtually impossible to get the required level of CMDRs involved.

Add in that FD seem quite limited to approx 1 CG of each type at any one time, the huge list of requested CGs already requested by existing Player Groups (is the waiting list in years yet?), you are on a hiding to nothing.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

CGs and such to create NPC stations for player-named factions - no issue.

 

[Veyder]

I am talking about creating a new station in the system of choice for a Minor Faction or renaming an existing station not just taking one over.

Example you are in a System that just has a Coriolis station... perhaps you'd want an outpost or a Ocellus station in your system... I think that we should be able to have that.

 

[okiimatsu]

Who knows? The way this thing is going now you'll just have to coax them with enough pizza.

 

[WR3ND]

I already have one for mine. I'm the only one that knows about it though, since I'm the only member. Just the way I like it.

 

[Vasious]

Firstly the Answer no now by the Devs should be taken as an acceptable answer, and that Obisidian Station generated three CGs to have the station build should not be seen as an entitlement to expect every Minor Faction get one, since it isnt an automated process. Unity, Mercs Respite, and Obisidant Orbital were all manually injected

Secondly, Given Minor factions, be they Player sponsored or not, can already expand and take over stations as is, and the player ones were gifted the controlling station of thier home system, I think there would have to be several criteria for a minor faction to be able to start the building a new station.
Something like they will have expanded into numerous systems, and control a majority of the station in theose systems already so building a new one makes sense, vs annexing an exisiting one.
Ditto for the planetayr colony situation.
Expanding exisiting stations might be a good place to start, adding Habitation rings to Orbis Stations or Oceullus Statioins without them.

Thirdly Failure needs to be a possible outcome.
If you got a CG to build a new station for your faction, you'd have to accept the CG might not success or the station build is a poorly factilitied one.

Fourthly No to renaming stations just because you have taken them over.
Stations dont get renamed as other minor factions take them over, and Powers move in and out, etc etc Player Sponsored factions should be any different.
The functionally immutability of the names of stations allow for them to be "landmarks"

 

[Antoniius]

Who wants a station for their Minor faction?

I would like to propose a series of Community Goals to build Stations/Outposts/Planetary Bases for Player Minor Factions. Since the announcement of player minor factions, I have wanted to have our own Ocellus Starport (With the fancy palm trees)

I think having a player created Starport or a base on a planet (with the upcoming release of horizons) would be the pinnacle perk of having a minor faction.

I agree completely with your requests, the only doubt i have is about WHO has to pay for the station.
While in CGs the "game" itself pays the player for the goal (and without a reward i dont think any CG could be completed), if a player driven faction wants a station, i think the players should pay ALL rewards (aka, billions of credits).

 

[The Tick]

Who wants a station for their Minor faction?

My 2 cents: our Minor Faction already has two. So I don't see any significant increase in fun by being able to determine what kind of station exactly you want to have. As all these events are (and certainly will remain) hand injected by FDev, I'd rather want them to invest their development time somewhere else.