How cool would it be to own your own station? I don't know how hard it would be to oxp but I think it would be pretty awesome. Maybe just a small station like the Collector's or maybe a Rock Hermit?
Some ideas for what you could do with it:
Store ships there for future use
Gain revenue from sales (probably not much what with operational overhead)
Use it for slightly discounted repair on ships
Bragging rights
You don't know what class is.
- Fireworks to welcome you after a long trip
- Your own logo on the station
- docking priority
- A maid café instead of a dive
- An escort at witchpoint waiting for VIPs 24/7
- custom station interiors
And of course risk losing it all to pirates and/or Thargoids if you're not at home when they come to say "hi!"
Even more entertaining, would be if the system went nova..
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
There is a native nova mission - and if you visit a system gone nova, you won't last long.
Last time I revisited my nova system, I lasted all of forty-two seconds. <chortles>
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!