Allow Special Nodes to be claimed by building Space Stations

It could definitely be implemented that way

i also thought you could add different industry prices for different special nodes. What about?

Wait, would it be possible to redirect the hangar benefit from the new Vaulters expansion (the one that gives 20% extra repair rate to ships on hangars) to systems too? like, mining the ore from those special nodes and giving those special alloys to the selected systems?

The creation of one would act just like an outpost would. Once the station is created and the node claimed, the only action you can take after that is directing which system gets the node's benefits.

am i wrong?

i thought the process was quite simple: you select a system, place a Shipyard on it, and collect the benifts.

let me see... these outposts would function like a colony then? i dint really understood it...

I'd say keep it the same as the colonies (which I think is around 450?) There is no natural growth since there is no planet, so the player would have to rely entirely on the industry supplied by the selected colony, making it a bit more challenging than trying to start a normal colony.

Yea i agree... i just hope that the cost - efficiency of capturing those nodes feel rewarding! did you thought about the industry shipment cost price?

I'll have to look at it again once the expansion is live :P  Either way, claiming  it with a Space Station provides a benefit to your empire and may prove to be extremely helpful during a war.

intersting... i just thought that the new node they released for Vaulters expansion provided no bonus for systems, so there was no reason to expand your system to it... well, just something i thought here. :)

My inital thought would be to make it manpower, to keep it more in-line with how pirate lairs work so as not to confuse players.

As for effects being tweeked, I don't think that will be needed, as a lot of how that would be handled is already shown by The Unfallen

it seems very well thought from the beginning to the end... but i also have another question: there is a special node they just released, the one that grant extra rejuvenation speed for ships that goes there... Do you think that implying an alternative bonus for those Special nodes like, extra dust for those nodes too, could help to make those nodes a bit more usefull? 

Because, whit your idea, once we create a space station on it, it might grant extra generation speed for ships onto that system, but nearly to not benefit on your other systems. Maybe we needed to add an alternative bonus for that node, like... 10% ship buyout reduction? im still not sure about it. :)