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[KhevaKins]

If the anchor station isn't going to be an offensive/defensive structure can you make it more economically based. Here are some suggestion:

Construction bay upgrade. When fully upgraded it should be a build rate of say 250% rather than the 175% offered now. That is what it is built for.

Price. Upgrade cost should be lowered i it doesn't help defend.

Orbital refinery upgrade. Add an upgrade to turn it into an orbital refinery alongside the one that turns it into a trade station. You could then park it in an asteroid field and increase the X/sec of the asteroids. I think it default 0.69/sec so make it 1/sec for fist upgrade and 1.5/sec for next upgrade.

Those are some suggestion for making the anchor station other than looking awesome.

[KhevaKins]

Probably make it slightly bigger because the longswords are the same size/bigger then the hangar door.

[DEMONTHESE2211]

If the anchor station is going to be an offensive/defensive structure can you make it more economically based. Here are some suggestion:

Construction bay upgrade. When fully upgraded it should be a build rate of say 250% rather than the 175% offered now. That is what it is built for.

Price. Upgrade cost should be lowered i it doesn't help defend.

Orbital refinery upgrade. Add an upgrade to turn it into an orbital refinery alongside the one that turns it into a trade station. You could then park it in an asteroid field and increase the X/sec of the asteroids. I think it default 0.69/sec so make it 1/sec for fist upgrade and 1.5/sec for next upgrade.

Those are some suggestion for making the anchor station other than looking awesome.

I can agree with this. Being only equipped with point defense guns and strike craft currently limits the starbase's utility given the cost of upgrades and the really high damage of the ships in game.

[Defender0]

I can agree with this. Being only equipped with point defense guns and strike craft currently limits the starbase's utility given the cost of upgrades and the really high damage of the ships in game.

the anchor was never meant to engage ships directly, its more of a resource provider with strike craft

[KhevaKins]

So make it super cheaper and be able to build ships super fast

[Defender0]

So make it super cheaper and be able to build ships super fast

i agree, also, i think it should have some kind of refinery upgrade if possible

[KhevaKins]

Uni said he'd try to add that in time for the next patch

[CanadaMan7]

add that in time for the next patch

Think Sloose is tackling this at this very moment.

[spartan-G257]

Think Sloose is tackling this at this very moment.

Which is possibly one of the reasons why Sloose is not commenting

[sloosecannon]

Which is possibly one of the reasons why Sloose is not commenting

Lol... Just sitting back and reading...

Doing an orbital refinery on a starbase isn't possible in Sins, but we will be doing more along the lines of a boost (think similar to Capital colonization boost) to resources

[KhevaKins]

Why isn't it possible? You can have trade ports.

But that is all i wanted was a resource boost in asteroid belts

[sloosecannon]

Why isn't it possible? You can have trade ports.

But that is all i wanted was a resource boost in asteroid belts

Because we hate hardcoding.

In all seriousness, tons of stuff in Sins is hardcoded. Abilities and entities specifically... Unfortunately you can't do that - the trade port one was specifically put in there by Ironclad... Unfortunately, unless it's in vanilla, it's pretty tough to accomplish in Sins

[KhevaKins]

Yea. Ironclad. That guy.

[Unikraken]

They did some really lazy things that have really fucked the modding community.

[KhevaKins]

The AA abilities of the anchor station should get a big upgrade. Make it research, so get like 6 on the station. That is canon from reach isn't it.

[Wikia]

The AA abilities of the anchor station should get a big upgrade. Make it research, so get like 6 on the station. That is canon from reach isn't it.

Or allow upgrades that boost autocannon damage and add Archer missile banks.

[KhevaKins]

Both

[I Am Sancho]

Also keep in mind that this is the early game starbase that will be avaliable to you to control asteroid belts. A better super starbase will be available in late game in a future patch.

[Moo Cow Banshee]

just freaking attach a damn refinery onto that station, duct tape might help

[That1Niftyguy]

Since mass drivers were used to defend Ivanoff station from attackers, maybe fitting a mass driver or two on the anchor stations could be the final weapon system upgrade.