Discounted Outfits

Is a rank involved?

I'm just interested in how you can make a certain tech level or government have discounted items. I'm wondering if it has to do with the rank resource. Is there a way to do this without giving the player a rank or can you make the rank invisible? And yes, I have searched the boards.

Unfortunately, due to a bug in Nova, it is currently impossible to give a discount on outfits without creating seperate outfits for the lower-priced versions. Ships can be discounted, though, and that works by creating a ränk resource:

PriceMod     Used to modify the prices of items and ships at planets owned by
              the affiliated government. A value of 100 equals 100% of original
              price (i.e. prices are unchanged). Higher or lower  values raise
              or lower the prices correspondingly.  (can be used to let
              distinguished players get special deals on ships and items at
              "friendly" planets that have granted them the rank)

To prevent a rank from showing up in the "Honors" section of the player info dialog, simply don't give the resource a name (or begin it with a semicolon).

And no, I don't know if that bug will be fixed in 1.0.9.

Edwards

Ah. Now I see that under the rank resource... it would be interesting to experiment with more expensive ships... I don't know what that could be used for. Hopefully this will be fixed in 1.0.9.