Its kinda weird that tinkers are the only race that can just freely plop down their asteriod outposts in systems you have ships in. Other races give you a chance to hail their outpost ships and tell them you consider this system part of your territory. But the only way to stop tinker outposts is to just attack them and go to war. Seems like an oversight that they are the only species like that...

zenopath wrote:Its kinda weird that tinkers are the only race that can just freely plop down their asteriod outposts in systems you have ships in. Other races give you a chance to hail their outpost ships and tell them you consider this system part of your territory. But the only way to stop tinker outposts is to just attack them and go to war. Seems like an oversight that they are the only species like that...

Yes, it is indeed an oversight, and one I'd like to fix.

Well, I suppose the key difference is that a regular outpost sets up shop on something that is already owned by you, while a Tinker asteroid brings its own place, and can move on when they get bored of it.