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I've just been continuing to plug away for the past 3 weeks at assigning c/sec profit margins to nearly 24,000 commodity prices. I'm nearly finished, with just the Gallic passenger/luxury routes remaining to be done, along with one or two commodities that I had to bypass along the way for one reason or another.
The major system redesign in and around Omega 11 is finally complete, and I'm pleased that we've managed to set up Solarius so that all Diamond routes to House bases will run up through Stuttgart's trade lanes. Aeternus deserves a public thank you for patiently adjusting, readjusting, readjusting again, and again, and again to get jump holes positioned to make that work.
I finally made one major decision I have been postponing for weeks: profit margins for the passenger routes at OSC bases combined with their route destinations. They will be substantially higher than they are currently (but so will everything else). Routes will be limited so that all destinations will have the best profit margins, but there will be no A-B-A routes created. So, if there is a route from Curacao to Hawaii, there will be no route from Hawaii to Curacao, not even at a reduced rate. I am also not creating any routes between Shetland (which will be located in Newcastle) and Kusari bases, because those routes would go through the asteroid field in upper Newcastle, which is a lousy path for a liner. Hawaii and Shetland will also be destinations for passengers from whichever planets are closest to them, sort of the way Zoner Passengers are set up now.
OSC routes will initially appear to be severely limited, however since there will often be destinations to one or two capital planets, and the capital planets offer routes to other planets in each House, it will be possible to string together a large number of A-B-C-A routes for passenger and luxury commodities. There will also be one loop around Sirius going in one direction with House liqours: Berlin-Tokyo-Manhattan-London-Berlin. There will also be a Tokyo-New Paris-Berlin-Tokyo liquor route.
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