Political favor is the only finite resource at the moment (not counting prejoran tech which is redundant since its only good for the modules, which the mission gives enough of to get the modules and I do not believe anyone uses the slave barrier, which is horribly overrated at 20 spaces and complete loss of production)

I think we should have some kind of NPC, boss or otherwise which would drop political favor. Smugglers guild faction would be ideal since they are the raider/pirate type guild of the GL universe, or some kind of a mission which is repeatable.

Political favor could then also be used for new base level upgrades along with the current items, reasoning being that it obviously takes more than just credits and parts to build or expand a large base in space. Local governments need to be "greased" to allow construction in non-neutral space, and we are assuming that there is no such thing as free space, same like there is no such thing as free land. Space is carved out by boundaries influenced by local worlds/races/governments.

+1

Wanted to bump this back up. If there are NPCs that can give CTP, there need to be ones that supply Political Favor as well. Perhaps stryll prisoner ships that have political prisoners that don't give rank points but political favor.