Astro Galaxy - a realistic space exploration game

stations need manufacturing bays...

I agree.   A station should also be able to transfer cargo from one station to another.

after all, they are supposed to be the same as ships (except for movement)...

Though it is interesting that we can install engines on them. lol

lol never tried that before... d**n I think I need to jump my class X fleet of science stations now...just because it has engines

You can put engines on there but they won't do anything. lol

manufacturing bay would make sense! Big ships can only be build in Orbits.

True, we may look into either adding manufacturing bays to stations, or adding a new structure, orbital maintenance bay that will produce modules and can be linked to get resources from stations and act much like the SOL Fleet Maintenance, but will need to be supplied with modules / personnel to function. This will open up further possibilities in Corporation orbital assets.

And after that, player owned shipyards that will use resources to make ships...

That sounds awesome, I would totally love to start a ship building/module building service for my corp and others some day and that would make things a lot easier. Hope to see this sometime in the future xD

What would be good would be a trading post to be able to sell all of our manufactured goods to, should all these ideas come to light. I would rather sell an unwanted module to a player than to see it disappear at the SOL trading depot.  Dont forget guys, a license to build a ship doesnt give you a license to fly a ship LOL

I would love a trading post. Though we would have to make sure they are well defended. I am sure they would be big targets for pirates. lol

Even better. Would save me the energy, time and fuel to come looking for them haha
I would just position my fleet around it and it would be similar to a "VENUS FLY TRAP" lure them in and bang! hehe

sounds good, but give station manufacturing the higher priority...