Our last spacebuild had nothing and no one. The bare essentials, there was no motivation to hurl yourself into space. Now, there could be
CURRENCY TRANSFERS, yes, we could do ore mining. And thus, if you earn say, 20 astroides worth of ore, you can sell it to a guy. Then you can convert your newly made money into another server's cash. Like HRP or OCRP. Yes, actually earning money.
This would also promote piracy. Stealing some one's ore actually has a benefit.
PROS
+ Space build would get players
+People would have incentive to build shit
+ Economy
Cons
- Players getting large amounts of money
But what we have to remember is ore mining is hard, it takes a long time to get 10k worth of currency, and the exchange rate would be different
Space Build to HRP
2 ore equals 1 HRP
OCRP
3 ore equals 1 OCRP.
And perhaps we can add in the default Gmod's dupe system, where you can upload to the gmod network and use some of the uploaded dupes. This would allow players to save their work on a network rather then the server, and also retrieve ships that are not theirs. Some people suck at making ship,s and don't want to create a super carrier by hand, and that's fine.
New map: Gooniverse or Twin Suns would be a better change, no more fucked up textures, and no more glitches.
New weapons like Gcombat could bring the game mode alive, allowing players to blast pirates to hell or allow pirates to punch a neat hole in a ship, to then grapple on with Wire Weld and use a resource hose to steal ore.