Station Defense & Growing Threat Levels for Bounty Hunter (Request)

Gatekeeper

I thought about what might make Bounty Hunter more fun and less repetitive, and I came up with a decent idea.

1: Empty zones will eventually be repopulated with enemy ships unless you have a ship or station there.
This adds an optional gameplay mechanic to leave a ship or station in a zone to "capture" it.
2: Zones will gradually gain in power and ship count if left alone.
Now you'll have an incentive to clear out zones before they get too large.
3: If you leave a station or ship in a clear zone for too long, some ships will appear to attack it.
Now it's a good idea to leave a big station in a clear zone so you can control it and wipe out the invaders.
4: 'Controlling' a zone will gradually give you Credits over time
An incentive to actually defend a zone instead of letting the enemies capture it again.
5: High-Value enemy targets.
To add to the 'strategy' aspect of all this, high-value targets such as shipyards, stations, or just really big ships/fleets will appear randomly throughout the map, with the fleets posing a huge threat to your own stations.

I'm not sure how possible this would be, but it sounds cool, so I thought I'd share my thoughts.

CaptainRedstone

Gatekeeper Though I agree this would be cool, most of it is not really viable as modding stands right now
1: There's simply no way to do this. As soon as you jump out of a planet, it's unloaded, inaccessible, and put into stasis, let alone you can't spawn actual ships
2: See 1
3: See 1
4: This is closer to being possible, but again because planets are put into stasis there'd be no way to actually detect how long it's been, and thus how many credits to reward. Also rewarding credits directly is impossible, though certain people have figured out ways to circumvent this using part replacement repair shenanigans
5: Probably the closest to being possible out of all of these. This is effectively possible by adding extra tiers of planets, identical to preexisting ones in every way except for an additional large target, and swarm chance respectively. The problem is these would be split near 50/50, though you could circumvent that by adding, lets say, 3 truly identical tiers and 1 "buffed" tier, leaving a total 20% chance for the "buffed" tier to spawn. It wouldn't be a perfect replica, and could cause various unwanted side-effects, but it'd (probably) get the job done

(Edit: managed to accidentally click send halfway into 5)

Roasted

Gatekeeper You know, you could replace the tag with ideas-and-suggestions, because this aint on the trello you know 😉