Wormhole Station Ownership

[CocoCincinnati]

Watching the Blorg stream I found myself wondering about ownership of wormhole stations. If an enemy builds a station in your empire and you win the war without destroying that station, then can you still destroy them afterwards or would that constitute another act of war? Seems like you should be able to remove unwanted stations in your space.

Alternately, wouldn't it be nice if you could negotiate ownership of that station as part of the peace deal and take it for yourself. Even if you don't use that type of FTL you might discover it later or you might have an ally you can give it to.

 

[Hull-Tanker]

Honestly it would be better if there was a possibility to destroy them when the war is finished if they are in your space.

Kinda strange that a sovereign power cannot remove enemy/former enemy stations after a war. Especially if they are defunct and exist in the absolute middle of your empire.

 

[LastLeviathan]

It's strange both for a realism level and game play perspective. Imagine if France had allowed Germany to keep an underground passageway to Paris after WW1, makes little sense. Gameplaywise, while an AI might not abuse it necessarily, a human player who had spammed them during the war has a distinct and unfair advantage should he go to war against his enemy again.

 

[Poodlestrike]

Part of me wants them to be ceded along with the territory they're in, but that'd be pretty unfair from an FTL types balance perspective

I guess they should just be destroyed automatically.

 

[linthras]

Reallistically speaking they should be handed over to whomever holds the system after the war. They would be unusable to non-Wormhole species, who'd be able to deconstruct them.
Practically/gameplay-wise it would probably be easier to automatically destroy any stations in territories of former enemies, after the war.

 

[steven1mac]

You should be able to tear them apart and study them.

 

[Admiral Howe]

Honestly it looks like a logic bug where the game is doing a behavior the designers didn't think of so everything coming from that is unplanned. I imagine it'll be fixed soon enough.

 

[Poodlestrike]

You should be able to tear them apart and study them.

Not at any better rate than salvaging the other FTL types, I'd say. Maybe a bit better because there's a gonna be a lot fewer wormhole stations than there are FTL enabled ships.

 

[OtsegoGhost]

I would like to believe that you could learn of other FTL types through salvage. By this I mean learn of hyperlanes by studying hyperlane ships and perhaps wormhole through studying wormhole tech such as generators.
Not perfect, but it would make some logical sense.

 

[Daffor]

There's also the issue of any possible battlestations built in enemy space.

 

[puggle999]

I think it'd be best to destroy them.

 

[OtsegoGhost]

There's also the issue of any possible battlestations built in enemy space.

If Battlestations function like WormHoles, this would be waaay too exploitable as it is.

 

[Tallfellow]

I'm pretty sure that wiz said that it was a bug that the stations stayed in his systems after the war! And i'm guessing the same is true for the battlestations!

 

[Exemplar Voss]

There's also the issue of any possible battlestations built in enemy space.

Yeah, I was thinking that while watching the stream - what is going to happen there?

Personally I think any structures in another empire's space should be scuttled automatically at the end of the war- unless it is the space of friendly federation members or allies/neutrals you have access treaties with.
Definitely not former enemies, however.

Otherwise, it's exploitable, as in any war you can set up those giant space stations around their worlds before making peace, and when the next war breaks out, all their worlds are surrounded by several thousand 'points' of space station strength.

 

[Ijiero]

Given that said system glitched into Blorg... tentacles? I wouldn't count on it being normal that it stays there. Bugs, glitches, the usual...

 

[hjarg]

Wiz was surprised they weren't dealt with- so i'm guessing this is something little we call a "bug"