(12-10-2012, 02:27 PM)Pavel Wrote: There are one-way only bottlenecks between Houses, O-7 and O-3, Sigma-13, Tau-31 and Tau-23. But there are 2 Independent Worlds systems leading to Liberty: Hudson and Bering, Galileo and Kepler, Cortez and Magellan. This discriminates trading between Houses other than Liberty.
Not really. The bottlenecks are inside the House space. Bretonia/Liberty: The lane leading from Birmingham to the London gate, everyone's favorite pirate spot at the California/New York gate... Anyone trading between Rheinland and Liberty is asking to get shot by both navies since that's a warzone, and come 4.87 those gates won't even work anymore. Kusari end has the lanes leading up from Deshima as bottleneck - Colorado not so much though. So you got a minor point there. But keep in mind that this design has been there since vanilla - wasn't our doing.
As for your IMG/DSE thing: What you are forgetting is that DSE not only built the lanes, but built the midway stations as well. Stations we now know as Holman, Freeport 4 and Freistadt. (Freeport 1, 2 and Ames as well, but those are Zoner bases now). DSE does maintenance to those stations according to several legacy infocards - so I don't really see the problem there. If you end up with DSE using Freistadt to mine Omega 7, toss that IRPly our way and there'll be a few FR5's - since the IMG may not harbor foreign corporations in Rheinie space and DSE is fully aware of that. Either way, I don't see your point with these docking right issues. I'm not opposed to removing them between mining corporations that do not directly compete - for instance, there's no docking denial between Samura/Kishiro and DSE even though both mine Platinum. It makes sense for the denial to exist between IMG/Daumann/Kruger, IMG/BMM and Daumann/BMM because these companies directly compete with eachother. I don't see a point for allowing DSE and Daumann to dock on eachothers bases personally - your houses are at war with eachother after all. So what exactly are you asking for here?
As for the mining bonuses, you've brought this up a number of times already, and I'll answer you the same way again. Yes, IMG has good bonuses. But IMG does not have THE BEST bonuses on any of the ores, except Niobium. There is always at least one corporation that has a factor 1 higher on the bonus to give the corporations an edge over the IMG (which has an easier time with most unlawfuls, but doesn't have the backing of house industries). Come 4.87 the mining system is getting an overhaul and this will become a moot point anyway. From memory, I don't have the config on hand: Daumann has top Aluminium (monopoly even) and Diamond at 4x, Kruger has top Cobalt and Silver. IMG has top Niobium, good Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Beryl and diminished Diamonds (which as far as I'm concerned can be dropped, was only for RP use like the Kruger bonus on Hfuel, but as far as I'm aware noone ever did anything with it).
I'll look into the platinum issue. There's no reason for IMG to have a platinum bonus as they don't have any zones where that resource can be mined (no platinum in their ZoI, which is the Omegas, Taus and Bretonia). I don't remember ever setting one but that could be an oops on my part. IMG| however has never mined platinum that I'm aware of (or I'd have checked this a whole lot sooner). If you were testing with a small ship, be aware that ANY ship using ANY guns can mine and get the default *0.5 bonus. On a pristine field, that means a small ship will fill up wether you have a mining bonus or not. It also means that escorts can assist with a mining operation slightly rather then just sitting idle - which is why that was put back in.
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