POB improvement

[FynnMcScrap]

I was doing some more thinking on this topic, and on balance.
As far a I know, there is always reluctance to add some new factor to pricing, but there are several commodities used in the game that have a fixed price and evenly distributed availability because of balance.

Reinforced Alloys, Robotic Hardware, Hull Pannels.

Not to mention all the nice stuff needed for upgrading... but those are NOT evenly spread to encourage travel and cooperation. So I will dwell on those later.

Now, for me the idea is to ceep buisy. I like the grind. I WANT the grind.
I like to fly somewhere to fetch something, and get my base happy by munching on it.
But actually I do not like the idea of being just another base to sell cloaks or modules.


Suggestions :
Bio-domes: Create Food & Ox, need fertilizers and water, perhaps raw hydrocarbons ?

Smelter : need Scrap and Prem scrap, perhaps some ore... Boron or such. and fuel
Produce either RA or HP, ( I suggest different commodities and different factories )

Production site : needs ore , scrap and fuel. Produces RH.

If these factories could produce the commodities at equal to or even slightly under required cost for the suply comodity, taking time and mined materials , that would be fine with me. Let them produce a good lot at a time, I can still sell the rest for the fixed price.
Of course I would love to *earn money* with construction.
But my main goal is to have to fetch something interesting to build something else. And not necessarily a high priced cloak or such.

I like to have to plan my trade routes with the base at the centre... wich trading deals, rep problems and pirates underway. Thats what being a Trader is all about for me. And if I only *make money* it somehow is... unsatisfactory.
But to see the Base munching something... my little monster can not be upgraded so fast and so far ! *grins*

I will probably settle to building a factory producing something else if I have to, but somehow nothing fits.

Oh well...
sry for spamming my thoughts here.

*BUMP*

Rob

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FynnMcScrap, Foreman of Tinkers Haven