Copper Ore for the Council

[Battlesnax]

For the record, the topic starter and first 2 replies were from [C]ouncil members. It's understandable that they would want this but it should be noted that they're not coming from a neutral perspective.

Also, boost to activity in Gallia?

Hmmm, where have I heard this before?....

(1) First, the admins added Niobium and Beryllium Ore sale points in Burgundy to boost activity in Gallia.
(2) Then, they opened Gallia to trade to boost activity in Gallia..
(3) Next, they created /restarts to stoke battles in Languedoc to boost activity in Gallia..
(4) There was a Gold Ore sale point added to Alesia to boost activity in Gallia.
(5) Gallic NPCs were defanged to boost activity in Gallia.
(6) And an annoying Gallic rep-ninja was removed to boost activity in Gallia.


And the final result of all those Gallia activity-boosting changes.....

Well, see for yourself:
http://www.discoverygc.com/server/players_online.html
(Count the number of players in Burgundy, Languedoc, Lorraine, Dauphine, and Champagne. Note: you probably won't need 2 hands.)

Also, official Gallic factions are on the lower 50% among the other factions for server faction activity:
http://discoverygc.com/server/activity_summary.html

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So you can go ahead and make this change, but I wouldn't expect a noticeable bump in Gallic activity. Why would this change suddenly sprout a Gallic boom when other changes did not?

What will the Council be doing once this change comes into effect? They probably won't be sending trade ships down to Omega-7 to pick up the ore. The likely outcome I forsee is Council snubs camping the 2 choke point entrances to Gallia or to Champagne to tax the Copper ore haulers.

So I think the effect of this on Gallia activity will be negligible and I am against this change because it will likely come with a nerf for the Planet Houston copper ore sale price. The copper ore price at Houston has been good for mining activity in Omega-7. (Disclosure: I do some of my mining in Omega-7).

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