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Is it possible to place a station in orbit of a sun?

I hardly ever visit the sun, as fuel is cheap and available in many places now, especially constores.

But if a station was placed at the sun I'm sure I and others would visit more often.

A) Yes, stations can be placed anywhere, even inside things like suns

B) agree, although not so much about it being cheap, just that money is so much more easier to come by in Oolite unlike in Elite.

C) Perhaps, some OXP's do add stations near suns (i think commies does) I'd also like to see stations around other planets added by other oxps like System Redux, and more than 1 station per planet. But CBF doing it myself hehe

ADCK wrote:

Perhaps, some OXP's do add stations near suns (i think commies does) I'd also like to see stations around other planets added by other oxps like System Redux, and more than 1 station per planet. But CBF doing it myself hehe

Yes, now that you mention it, I think I have visited a Commies station near a sun.

I think sun stations ought to be more common, especially in high tech systems.

Perhaps an OXP could be made that skims the sun for fuel, and then exports it to the planet in tankers. Then the player could take part in the skimming and selling the fuel to the sun station.

JazHaz wrote:

ADCK wrote:

Perhaps, some OXP's do add stations near suns (i think commies does) I'd also like to see stations around other planets added by other oxps like System Redux, and more than 1 station per planet. But CBF doing it myself hehe

Yes, now that you mention it, I think I have visited a Commies station near a sun.

I think sun stations ought to be more common, especially in high tech systems.

Perhaps an OXP could be made that skims the sun for fuel, and then exports it to the planet in tankers. Then the player could take part in the skimming and selling the fuel to the sun station.

good to see an idea come round again - it means its a good one: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... a7ae#70127

I thought Ramirez had done a model too, but the link to the image is gone https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... bf36d4a526

Sorry, I needed to make a bit of space on my web server so I deleted images I didn't think I needed. You can still see some pics on the main OXP Ships page of the Wiki.

For Dictators I had the tankers and freighters running from the AstroFactories to the planet. You can easily adapt what's there to have a similar kind of thing happening for a station in orbit around a sun.

Sunstations would generate more system traffic on the sun lanes.

required:
sunstation w/heatshield
fuelscoop utillity ships
tanker ships
AI for skimmers/sundivers.
AI for tankers to run Sunstation-Mstation and dock at both.
script to get main stations to launch tankers
extras:
script to get allow private selling of fuel at sunstation (for very little profit)
boyracers to annoy hardworking scoopers with their antics.

maybe only at industrial worlds, it does not seem an especially hightech endeavour.