Paintshops are too rare / can hardly find any in most systems

LUCASG0LD9711 commented 3 weeks ago

Observed behaviour

Paintshops tend to be rather rare. I have only seen about 1 or 2 throughout my playtime, and I have been playing with the same character since the 29th of October, starting on Mars and since then I played enough to get a Poor rating with 21 kills, become Trustworthy, acquire +200.000$ and a new ship, and travelled far enough to reach a system called Liaulze (-23, -11, -12).

My conclusion is that paintshops are too rare / perhaps are not even available in most systems.

Expected behaviour

Paintshops could be available more regularly at higher tech level spaceports and space stations.

Steps to reproduce

Perhaps travel about star systems further away from Sol and see whether one finds paintshops regularly or not, not quite sure tbh.

My pioneer version (and OS):

The 10th of July 2024 version (20240710 dc2706b)

My output.txt (required) and game save (optional, but recommended)

output.txt savefiles.zip

impaktor commented 3 weeks ago

If I read the code right, it's 75% chance for high population stations to have them. All faction home worlds have them.

I'm generally averse to spam all stations with "content" such that all stations have everything. There are things that should be rare, meaning the player seldom encounters them in the game.

ping @WKFO

bszlrd commented 3 weeks ago

Out in the wild I rarely bumped into them

impaktor commented 2 weeks ago

Or to be more explicit: worlds with pop > 0.00005 have 75% chance of having them. Not sure what fraction of the worlds have a population higher/lower than that.

sturnclaw commented 2 weeks ago

That's specifically starports with more than 50,000 people, which you can inspect using the system map.

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