Is there any way to change ownership of a station?

[bmtv0957]

For some reason there are 2 xenon owned stations in albion/liquid metal/ascendancy in my current save game. I assume this is due to a mod or something.

Is there any way to edit my save file and change ownership of these stations to a faction that isn't hated by everything? Because at the moment they can't trade with anyone.


Thanks in advance.

[Alan Phipps]

Moving to S&M forum.

[bmtv0957]

Woops - wrong forum. Sorry about that.

[darkoray]

There is indeed away but requires editing the save file to change ownership which I rather difficult if you don't know how. I edited my first save file to switch over ownership of the overwatch station to HoA which was hard enough and I had directions.

[w.evans]

Don't know of a mod that changes station ownership to Xenon, but at this point, I can't claim to know what all of the mods do, so there could be one out there.

There are detailed instructions in this thread on how to change ownership of any property (ships, stations, personnel):

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=377686

[Baconnaise]

Changing station ownership is pretty straight forward in the save file. Find the station in the save and change it to owner="player" or whatever faction you want. You also have to do this to the station manager. Officers don't need to be changed or at least they didn't previously. I doubt it's been changed. Kind of funny having hostile officers .

[andyber]

should be possible through xml code too...

how are your programming skills? =D

every station has a faction assigned to it.
So simply changing the "$station.owner" value to the desired faction should do the trick. ( hint: could be used as the basis for a station takeover mod =D )