Yeah, the random-gear is a good idea.

I've always seen militia-freighters coming from the outer areas of the system. No idea how they got lost or out that far, but whatever. (And yes, escorting them being the only mission for militia Majors gets really old.)

Additional accessibility is optimal. Here's hoping the other 50% comes quickly!

<snip/concur-KA101> Only problem with putting Korolov containers out past Sung space is that I've never seen a Korolov station past St. Kats, and IME Korolov's lore doesn't clearly state that they do multi-system escorts or shipping. I've seen freighters (one of the militia missions is to escort a ...

Only problem with putting Korolov containers out past Sung space is that I've never seen a Korolov station past St. Kats, and IME Korolov's lore doesn't clearly state that they do multi-system escorts or shipping. Begs the question of who/why is hauling the containers through what ought to be the mo...

I was thinking about that too, but I don't want them to be as hated as the vanilla salvagers :( I thought about that over in the economics thread. Short version: the salvagers don't provide any benefit to the player (they don't even scuttle/mark-as-empty the wrecks they salvage), but simply leech l...

An RK15 with a cannon accelerator can hold you until you can get an Ares Lightning Turret if you're okay using fixed axis guns against heavy opponents. Against gunships it doesn't really show its age until you start meeting Sandstorms, and that's the same point you can start encountering Phoboses o...

Well, the movement isn't getting any younger. May as well start researching it.

Afraid that's not it. Keep thinking.

Trouble is actually getting an Ares turret before Sung space.

(Last game I had a Sung camp pre-Charon, FWIW. Wind slavers + Charon frigate = so much for that Korolov.)

I'd go for the omni-TeV but then I use solar reactors, so what would I know?

Highest I ever got was Sindikat Member. Not sure if there are errands available at any level other than Smuggler, and my last game ignored my mid-level gladiatorial Smuggler asking for work at at the Rigel BM, for some reason--just another reason to run The Network. Problem was that I got the mil-ID...

Interesting, though the temperature involved seems like it would roast & toast* any, say, shuttlecraft passing through. Other than that detail, yeah, sounds nifty. Now to obtain the energy required.

*Guess whence I lifted that phrase, win the proverbial cookie!

??? I specifically said that I know part 2 isn't implemented, and simply don't appreciate being auto-killed--both for plot & for permadeath-tracking purposes--because I accidentally* went through the coreward stargate from Heretic. It might be less trollish to omit reference to systems that don't ye...

2.0 would be nice. 1) No longer killing the file (as in "$PLAYERNAME left human space enroute to the Galactic Core. Xe killed ## of ships, including # of $NASTIEST_SHIP. Xe never reached the Galactic Core.", then "Resurrect in the Heretic System") on hitting the endgame gate. I find it insulting: HA...

Fair enough, though with something like Upgradeable [Wingers] or Playership Drones, the line between party-members as "NPCs" v. "PCs that the player didn't start with" tends to blur.

Sorry to hear that, though the idea itself is still good and I look forward to it.

Excellent idea; if this could be applied to NPCs as well as RPCs*, this would greatly facilitate that "interacting with the NPC traders" thing i was suggesting. *Recruitable Player Characters; term from Wiz8 but could well originate elsewhere. Finding a modder in-game would be rather interesting to ...