You said that lack of resources can drive a planet's economy, and that a failing economy now can impact the state of decay of a planet. Will it be possible to beseige planets and space stations? Cutting them off from resources, driving up the value of those items to force the planet to go into recession or make a claimable space station inhabitable by say blockading it from needed supplies like food, water and O2?asked by John Highbinder
TL;DRChris Roberts says a full blockade would be very difficult or impossible because planets usually have multiple instances, though destroying cargo ships would still feed into the economy and raise prices.
Most planets have instanced space around them, it's not unique. So if there's a planet and you got 50 people in orbit and our limit is 50 people per instance, the 51st and 52nd player that enter that orbit get put into a second instance around the planet again, they just don't see the other 50 people etc etc. So unless the space around the planet/station is unique doing a full blockade would be very difficult or impossible. There are some places that might have a unique instance of space around them, so if you did do it here, the way the game works is that if you did destroy every cargo ship going into that station it'd have an effect, but there would probably still be some that got through, and maybe even another instance "opened" for the NPC ships. Even in a player instanced scenario, if you destroy a cargo ship, that information goes into our economy system and it says well, those goods didn't get to the planet so in general the prices would rise for those goods, so while yes you do have an effect, you probably won't be able to entirely blockade a station like that. But I definitely think people will see the impact of their actions.