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@riptide Because the highest level must be maintained to keep the subscription through faction. Cap ships you don't have to maintain the level, you can obtain it once and be done then not worry about it. Where as for the subscription you lose the service when your faction rep is diminished.

This circumvents that carrot of the stick in a large way. Thus making faction grind redundant long term.

Merely just pointing it out as not everyone would know based on the description of this mod.

To each their own. I'm not against it in any way.

@xXBulletJusticeXx How would that in any way make the faction rep grind redundant? Faction rep is used for so much more than just getting the trade subscription. I mean do you even buy capital ships?

@Zwamba correct. The faction trade subscription benefit that you purchase from a faction rep is the same thing. It seems his mod is just hijacking the function to "subscribe" to stations in the systems that you drop a satellite into. Thereby making the faction rep grind redundant.

I mean, a subscription technically gets you access all the time, even if SATS are destroyed or not present. You may not want to SAT eveything for performance perhaps! The use case is def smaller though!

I get that.. but basically your satellite tweak is literally the same thing that a license you buy from faction rep is. Your using the "subscription" tag, which is what the license is.

Makes the built in function from EgoSoft pointless, if there is no further benefits to be acquired from the faction rep. Right?

Not bashing your mod, I just want to be sure I'm understanding what your mod actually does.

@xXBulletJusticeXx
The licence gives you a faction wide subscription to trade offer updates.
The satellite is sector wide (regardless of the faction affiliation of the stations).
Just in case, there are two more ways to get a subscription: mission reward (not used) and signal leak scanning (after EMP bomb).

Is this trade subscription the one you get as a license for having high rep that you purchase from the rep guy then?

@xXBulletJusticeXx, hmm, I thought this concept was from the game manual, didn't I?
I'm too lazy to look for a description for the player, so I'll quote the description for the modder.
"add_trade_subscription
Add permanent player subscription to trade offer updates of the specified object. This also immediately adds the current trade offers to the trade memory."

"deploying a satellite in a system would set up a trade subscription to all known friendly stations."

By subscription.. do you mean it pulls the stations trade info or is this a completely different thing?

@Terrenor. You missed with the mod, recheck this. This mod doesn't change the range of satellites in any way.