Sounds feasible, until someone brings a friend (or an alt) and they both pass the door at the same time - one stays inside and unless you also add a counter/comparator, the lock becomes useless. It's a nice engineering challenge, but a simple, single block solution would be nice to have, too.
My only thought would be to have it where it only lets a single entity pass at a time (like some sort of scifi 'energy barrier') and only one entity at a time. Perhaps only to the entity that actually made the payment. As a result even to an alt/other player who tried to pass through at the same time would just walk into a wall while the other would pass through no problem. Not sure how difficult that would be however.
Yeah, like paid local syndicate to access alien space brothel facilities.
yeah i was just feeling like makinfg a new thread on that dayI can see that, but in a player economy where the things being bought and sold are not just components (i.e. services, whole ships, docking permissions, door access, information, etc) it is something I think a lot of us have thought about at one time or another and just never bothered to table in the forums because it's kind of low down on the priority list.
I could see where this would work with selling ships. Just place it next to a faction block, setup a price and assuming someone in a faction comes along and wants it, they pay the money and the faction block switches to them on the lowest tier permissions.
That sounds intimidating until you find out you can undock them by simply removing the rail, or more elegantly rotate it using logic from your docking control centre at the press of a button.
