Give Blueprints a faction label

[obsidian island]

This would allow for buying certain blueprints only from specific factions.
For Vanilla perhaps not important (at the moment), but for modders this would be awesome to give factions more live and some kind of a profile that diverts them from each other.

[fast nest]

Agreed, also custom faction would be awesome

[gilded rover]

https://discord.com/channels/314103695568666625/1035341461325086770

You can already make custom factions techicaly

But it would be nicer to have a intake way to make it

Ingame *

But yea it would be nice to be able to set certain tech and other things to certain factions trade posts

And stuff

[tender wing]

Ions would probably be bought from cabal

[serene hatch]

Or have faction specific "mods" to specific weapons (ala EVE). eg All factions offer a laser/plasma blaster but one faction offers it with greater range while one faction offers it with greater accuracy...

[obsidian island]

I'm already doing it. 😛
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I'd like to have a way to prevent the game from offering ST-Techs on stations not belonging to this faction.

[minor monolith]

we could also put a bigger scaling on how reputation affects the price of these blueprints, so you're heavily incentivized to make ships that fit in with the faction you're supporting

[serene hatch]

You shouldn't be penalised for running weapons or parts that come from another faction. But you should get better consumables (or crew) that work with your faction weapons better. A faction that supports missile use, would provide missiles for their weapons that are stronger than if you use a generic missile in their launchers. Or crew supplied from the faction can carry more faction specific missile parts (or faster), or are more accurate in shooting... etc

Don't penalise but incentivise.

[minor monolith]

My main thought was just in acquiring blueprints, you wouldn't be penalized for using anything, just incentivized to get the blueprints of your faction

[gilded rover]

Getting penalised for having blueprints wouldn’t make much sense anyway as you have the object the only thing I can think of is lowering standing with that faction

If you attack them so either they make it cost more or you have to steal it by doing faction fighting missions

[minor monolith]

You know how blueprints cost more or less depending on your reputation with a faction?

My point is literally just to increase the reputation requirements to buy some blueprint, and increase how much they cost for factions you aren't working with. That way you're more likely to align with a faction and the blueprint stealing missions become viable

[gilded rover]

Sounds neat

Though I feel like this only makes sense in modded and not in vanilla since vanilla doesn’t have too many blueprints though having certain weapons and factory’s assigned to factions sounds nice

[minor monolith]

Agreed, there's no faction specific blueprints so blueprint cost scaling doesn't need to be nearly as durastic