Sandbox mode

[Knave]

Sorry if I missed it somewhere, I'm still pretty new to the forums.

That said has anyone made a sandbox mode/mod for testing and scripting? A vastly narrowed, world with several scripts disabled for simplicity. Perhaps just one massive system with a few bases and opposing factions?

How hard would it be to accomplish this? I've been looking at all the scripting/modding threads but its a bit over whelming at first. Diabling the you win-loose-cheat-or-draw threads for the most part. Also clipping most of the quest threads for the time being.

I realize a default jump start script may be required to upgrade you to your test bed ship(s). By disabling rather then deleting most of the content it leaves the hopes of easily expanding the game back to a fuller state once you are done testing and tweaking.

So honestly, is this a 2 hours of code switching idea or a 2 months of agonization idea?

Thanks in advance,
Knave