Can I use some of your sounds in the Syrtian War mod?
You will, of course, receive full credit.

If someone renders tje sprite I will write the code for it. Should only take few minutes.

Any mod that does have this script ( i cant think of any right now that were released) would be very complex so i threw this together: <Events> <OnCreate> (block theItem (for i 1 35 ;; run 35 times (setq theItem (itmCreateRandom "a" "ccccc")) ;; item selection criteria (objAddItem gSource theItem 1)...

It can be done and the attempts were very close (and alot of fun) however it will never be in vanilla. The gameplay design intentionally does not include station restock. Not every item is available in every game, if stations restock, that mechanic is moot. Not to mention all of the infinite credit ...

When the engine picks 1 (one) item of armor (or anything), it will create a random number in the station according to the armor's NumberAppearing attribute, which is usually a dice range. For example: It selects 35 armor items that correspond to your criteria, multiplied by the results of numberAppe...

I thought I heard someone mention sandbox..... My trans-sense was tingling!

1. Have you made it to Heretic? E. I made my own Heretic 2. How do you set up your ship? E. I have a carefully planned ship layout and its all modded. 3. How many times have you beaten Transcendence? E. I've probably started over a thousand games, so my win ratio is ~0.1% :( 4. When you see a Phobos...

Hence the suggestion that they remain misc devices but are limited to 1 installed at a time.

Perhaps some code in the onInstall event to check if a turret/autoDefense device is already installed.
Maybe we need an attribute like the enhancers have to prevent stacking?

I always pictured them as large baseships I think that says enough (or is that a different reference?) There is not an exact scale for ships but we do have one for planets and asteroids. Object Size (Km) Image (pixels) Example Ringed planet 300,000 512 Saturn Large gas giant 150,000 430 Jupiter Med...

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Ah ok. I think I see what you mean now. Digdug's suggestion for using background stations would be best in this case. This will also simplify your task by keeping all your events in one place and not having to overwrite EVERY station. It also provides a localized place to hold all your data. I see n...

Flying through nebula on autopilot trying to escape after shields went down...

right into a penitant shrine

IT depends if the star had a unique composition, (not sure what gas burns green?)

or perhaps is surrounded by a glass cloud/excretion disk..

That might work, if EVERY gate led to that blank system and you could use some script to move the player to a random node.

You're on the right path.