Hi Kuertee,
once again thanks for your hard work. Most of your mods have become essential for playing X4 for me.
If I may, I have one idea for another mod, and I can imagine that you are competent enough to maybe realise such thing
Let's call it "planetary upkeep" or "faction civil upkeep". One thing always nagging me was that the whole X economy is only in space. Everything is produced in space, but not, as it should be, for the normal citzens living on planets. Also it is only used for keeping the war machine going. Actually, living in the X4 universe must be a dystopian nightmare. If I'd be a government building a factory in space, I'd do it first and foremost for the planet below, to feed my people, without destroying the natural enviroment.
To satisfy this my mental nagging without too much effort, in the current X4, it could be symbolized with some kind of "planetary upkeep tax", but not paid in money, but in goods (symbolizing the goods shipped to planets).
To make it even easier, this "planetary upkeep tax in goods" would be taken by the normal factions (i.e. Teladi, Terrans, Argonians, Paranid, Split), but not the various pirates, Xenon, Khaak. Regularly, they would simply take away a fixed percentage of the goods stored in some types of factories (food, medicine, power plants). This percentage would just be removed from these stations inventory and "vanish" from actual gameplay (this is the symbolized "tax paid in goods"). (Maybe visually it could be shown with an increased mass traffic during that time or something like that).
UI-wise, it could be just another new menu (similiar like the professions) - a screen or table for each station summarizing which and how many goods have been transferred away.
-> so basically, reduce the amount of wares in storage regularly and make a UI calling it "goods used for planetary upkeep" (and thus not available for war gameplay).
I could imagine that you could program such a thing easily
(This is not a real request... well... maybe it is ... but of course only if it is interesting for you too.)