Rather than a space station costing 40 million and having limitless production capabilities based on materials available, stations cost less to found, but have limited size/production capacity until "upgraded" (basically buying a license for a larger station).
ex (numbers are only a representation for this example):
Basic factory cost: 1.5 million
Can produce 1 line of a good with a max production capacity of 500
Tier 2 factory upgrade cost: 2 million
Can produce 2 lines of goods with max production of 1500
Tier 3 factory upgrade cost: 4 million
Can produce 3 lines with max production of 3500
Tier 4 factory upgrade cost: 5 million
Can produce 4 lines with max production of 5000
Tier 5 factory upgrade cost: 10 million (again, just a representation of how the expense increases)
No limit to production lines or production capacity.
edit: I think it would be interesting to have tiers, myself, because not only would it allow you to build more stations earlier on (with limited capacity), there could be limits to the size of factories allowed in systems (set by the faction) based on the factories already present, or a faction that doesn't like you may restrict how large a station you can build, etc.
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An Ning
The idea in short:
Rather than a space station costing 40 million and having limitless production capabilities based on materials available, stations cost less to found, but have limited size/production capacity until "upgraded" (basically buying a license for a larger station).
ex (numbers are only a representation for this example):
Basic factory cost: 1.5 million
Can produce 1 line of a good with a max production capacity of 500
Tier 2 factory upgrade cost: 2 million
Can produce 2 lines of goods with max production of 1500
Tier 3 factory upgrade cost: 4 million
Can produce 3 lines with max production of 3500
Tier 4 factory upgrade cost: 5 million
Can produce 4 lines with max production of 5000
Tier 5 factory upgrade cost: 10 million (again, just a representation of how the expense increases)
No limit to production lines or production capacity.
edit: I think it would be interesting to have tiers, myself, because not only would it allow you to build more stations earlier on (with limited capacity), there could be limits to the size of factories allowed in systems (set by the faction) based on the factories already present, or a faction that doesn't like you may restrict how large a station you can build, etc.
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