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I noticed something when snooping around through the files and folders that there are places for the AI factions to put their own stations. In this case the only change to those area is they'd have a config file in place of a huge bunch of BPs and all BPs would be in the catalog instead.
This would free up space so the devs wouldn't have to worry about having duplicate BPs in other areas just to add them to a specific faction.
Now onto the main idea here.
Right under the usual checkboxes for Faction and AI Usable there'd be multi-select comboboxes. By default the Faction one selects the faction the player is currently in and the AI Usable one selects All AI Factions. In both cases both would have an All selection to pick in addition to either a list of AI or a list of player factions. You could select more than one faction on either list but if you manually select all factions it will clear the selection and select the All selection.
Now the configs in the AI and Player Factions folders would be keeping tract of what faction has use of what for it's spawns. Player Factions could only have mob spawns if the admins and a few configurable rules allow it, while AI factions would be restricted to anything that is named for it to use and anything that is named for everyone to use.
Being able to control who can use what be they AI or Player Faction would add an interesting dynamic to the game and also if the devs want they could make it so if a station, Planet, Ship, ext hasn't been discovered yet it wouldn't have a defined BP until within load range. This would make it so new BP added to factions for the stations and other things would be able to load up without having to restart the world. ( Assuming it doesn't already do that. :P)
This would free up space so the devs wouldn't have to worry about having duplicate BPs in other areas just to add them to a specific faction.
Now onto the main idea here.
Right under the usual checkboxes for Faction and AI Usable there'd be multi-select comboboxes. By default the Faction one selects the faction the player is currently in and the AI Usable one selects All AI Factions. In both cases both would have an All selection to pick in addition to either a list of AI or a list of player factions. You could select more than one faction on either list but if you manually select all factions it will clear the selection and select the All selection.
Now the configs in the AI and Player Factions folders would be keeping tract of what faction has use of what for it's spawns. Player Factions could only have mob spawns if the admins and a few configurable rules allow it, while AI factions would be restricted to anything that is named for it to use and anything that is named for everyone to use.
Being able to control who can use what be they AI or Player Faction would add an interesting dynamic to the game and also if the devs want they could make it so if a station, Planet, Ship, ext hasn't been discovered yet it wouldn't have a defined BP until within load range. This would make it so new BP added to factions for the stations and other things would be able to load up without having to restart the world. ( Assuming it doesn't already do that. :P)