It definitely does, as evident by the Settings.json, alas as to how it does, that is a mystery to me.
For building a new market, I would argue the cost should be as marginal as finding a planet to colonise, as that is all that's required elsewhere. Maybe slightly higher for being able to stick it in the same system as other planets rather than the rest.
(Honestly the current one looks somewhat reasonable with just the credit cost removed.)
I agree with Sky Gaurdian, the stations are too expensive and will take a while to earn back what you spent. 10 million is more than enough to colonize a system with 9 planets or fund enough fleets to take over several core systems (in nex).
The reason building these stations is much more powerful than colonizing a regular planet is (1) they always have 100% hazard, (2) you can build them right next to other colonies, which results in a large number of defensive fleets in close proximity, making raids very unlikely to succeed.
That being said, I think you have a point and I will be lowering the costs greatly for the release.
stations are OP if they are treated the same as colonies. I have some few suggestions if you want.
-stations should have size cap, like 4-5 size at max. It starts at the lowest (1) rather than (3). Making it quite vulnerable at the start.
-stations can only have 2-3 industry slots and like the standard planet colonies are capped by the size. Thus, you can make a station into a dedicated industrial station or a military station.
-it also demands more supplies and crew, I think there's some vanilla market conditions that has this. This way, players can't spam lots of stations in a single system with out having the enough supply production needed.
-once reaching max size it will have a negative impact to the stability since it has reached it population limit, but in turn, more crew will be available for export.
I think those I suggested above have been posted by someone else in the suggestions section. Anyway, thats all I can think off.
