suggestions

Change the star timelock to 72 hours (3 days) instead of 5 days. :)

No, too much advantage for star owners imo.

I think it would help those with less stars. Ender will probably be against it anyway, mostly because to my knowledge rather than waiting for the timelock to end people just buy more stars.

I think it's pretty cool you can move them about at all.

ive asked for something similar so im glad to see other do see it as a bit excessive for a lock of five days. even more of a problem is that if you move them back to the owning bot, they get locked to that bot, which makes no sense to me.

5 days sounds about fair. You have to realize how huge of an advantage stars are against non-contributors.

why dont you explain it to me since you apparently dont feel i truly understand the magnitude of the advantage.

even more of a problem is that if you move them back to the owning bot, they get locked to that bot

You dont have to transfer them back to your own bot in order to move them to another bot.

true, but what is the point in forcing a lock on those stars, when you own them?

Because then you could use those stars simultaneously on two bots.

Not if the timelock only applied if you transferred the stars off the bot that owns them.

If you are taking the stars back from someone you gifted them too, I don't see why it should then be locked to the bot that owns them.

Say you have two bots:

bot A: fully equiped energy collector. It owns 10 stars

bot B: you're working on, levelling it up

Bot B requires a lot of stash in order to swap suits. So it has most of bot A's stars. Bot A's gear wears out quickly though, so every day you transfer them 'back' to A, place a 1-day order, and then move them back again to B instantly. Because you only need one star to collect the order.

I think you slightly misunderstood what I meant.

Yes you could do what you suggested, but once you transfer the stars back to Bot B they are locked for 5 days again. So it's not exactly like what you said.

True, it's not something you could do on a daily basis.

then orders should be set up so that you have to have the correct number of stars on the bot to collect the order as you had when placing the order...that's at the root of this whole issue.