Antimatter
Currently antimatter is too easy to acquire, only requiring production at a starbase. We want to use it more within the game for other purposes but are unable to because it is either too easy to produce or too expensive.

A new item called 'Raw Antiparticles' will be introduced into the game and this will be required to produce antimatter via a blueprint at a starbase. Antimatter(43) will require 100mu of Raw Antiparticles (in addition to other components). The Antiparticles will have a decay rate, and will be highly explosive.

To maintain the status quo, every existing BP for antimatter in the game will have a 10 complex built at the starbase where the blueprint is installed called 'Cosmic Ray Collector'. These collector complexes will require Hi-tech modules to construct be expensive to build under normal circumstances, however they will be given for free. Each complex will produce 10 Raw Antiparticles per week which will be used by the starbase to produce antimatter. Although further antiparticles could be produced this way, the intention is that solar corona reactors are built.

Solar Corona Reactor
These reactors produce raw Antiparticles, the more complexes that you have the more antiparticles that are produced per complex. The base output at the reactor per complex will depend on the sun but will be in the range 50-150 depending on the sun.

Complex/Output per complex
1 - x1
10 - x1.5
50 - x2
100 -x2.5

The complexes are massive, but they do not actually require massive amounts of work hours and require hi-tech components to build. They will suffer a slight attrition every week due to damage from direct production of antimatter via thermal exchange.

Guilders
Guilders will be introduced as an ingame item that represents local hard currency that can be sold to your local population via the standard sell to local population mechanic, however it will only sell to the generic trade market ie (1/4 of the planetary trade income) and will not supplant other trade goods.

Guilders will be produceable from precious metals but with a high waste factor, and will commonly be given out as mission rewards. They can be used to pay for PIR positions troops/employees if they are present on the position at update.

Mining
We are allowing deposits to be explored more. It is assume that the current deposit is only close to the surface, and further exploration of the deposite will require work on it. This will allow played out deposits to be restarted providing that the necessary missions / tasks are undertaken.

[1] Missions from the base are required to explore a deposit
[2] The missions will have options to either follow the conservative routes with lower yields or more dangerous route that have higher yields but have negative effects.
[3] Add stability and level stats to mining resources. Only surface deposits (level 1) can be seen by GPI, the lower levels are only investigated via missions
[4] Unstable mines that are exploited have a chance of doing damage to the base.
[5] Tech items to allow more stable mining via mission interface.
[6] The type of mission will change for different types of deposits and different ores

Small additions
- Uncontrolled Assets will be takeover/sold if a position is left inactive for a long period of time (stellars raised go into affiliation fund).

Ship Upgrades
We want to make ships more important, so to avoid ships being scraped that use out of date hulls we are going to do the following
[1] Allow the size of existing ships to be increased by up to 20% of the original BP
- 20% up to 100
- 10% after 100
- can not increase size past 200 hulls
[2] Initial ship registration charge of 5k
[3] Allow the armour or hulls to be upgraded in mark
- Uses hulls/armour upgrade patches
- hulls/armour upgrade patches BPs from the appropriate Armour/Hull techniques (marke II/III/IV)
- You can only update 1 mark at a time
- The update patches will have at least the difference in minerals between the upgrades and some production.
- It will cost more production to produce a mark I ship and upgrade to mark II than creating a mark II ship from scratch but less production than scrapping a mark I and producing a mark II (based on average reclaimed patches from salvage).
- Upgrading will increase integrity to 100%.