(10-07-2013, 01:14 PM)Karst Wrote: Dortmund currently doesn't function as it should in-lore: as a smelter, importing scrap and making some sort of metallurgic product from it.
I really don't know why Oder shipyard imports scrap metal (it already did in 4.86) and not Dortmund.
The premise is that Dortmund imports scrap, which ALG collects (previously primarily in the Yanagi cloud), to extract metals and remake them into Hull Panels.
This fits the lore including rumors already in place.
If it were moved from Kyushu, Kyushu would still have unique routes with Kyushu rice, but actually it might make more sense to add a third Hull Panel commodity.
New Berlin is far enough away to supply a different market with presumably different hull panels...
...Actually though, it would make more sense for MOX production to be shifted to Wuppertal anyway, as a product of a refinery rather than a smelter.
MOX production at Dortmund was, after all, a remnant of when toxic waste was bought there, implying MOX is produced by processing the waste.
If they absolutely cannot have more than one export product, it would make the most sense to have MOX sold at Wuppertal and Haz-Mats at Dortmund.
Maybe and this is Just a thought, have ALG have their own unique "method" of making Mox using Toxic Waste(Inrp) and Scrap metal allowing Scrap Metal and Toxic waste to be imported there and then MOX brought out. just a thought.
