No! The account-wide storage would not pertain to ship-based storage at all. Each character would be able to access it through a special interface while docked at their anchor point AI base.

Time Warp:
I would be fine with players cashing in Sing Spheres for this new kind of storage space. The only reason I haven't laid out all the specifics of the system I've come up with is that I want to hear what others have to say on the matter first. But like you say, Star Sonata is meant to be a sandbox game. It doesn't make sense for combat classes to affect things like storage space. Obviously I don't want SS to blend into the background with all the other homogeneous MMOs, so maybe you can be more specific about your concerns. How would moving to AI-based storage compromise SS's individuality? Keep in mind that the new storage system could be just as customizable as current ship-based storage, most likely with the ability to invest augmenters and other resources to improve it.

I like this point, there needs to be more distinguishing between combat and support.
Engineer needs to be able to get drones cheaper (or have dead drones drop parts, halving rebuild cost) and recieve a nerf to the power of drones. This makes perfect sense to me, they are far too powerful in pvai and pvp for a supporting class.
Monkeys also need a exp nerf...look at the top 10 players list, it's a joke.

Back on track, after thinking about it I don't like the idea of ai base storage.

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tbh not sure why this would be needed.