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Corile · (This post was last modified: 02-12-2016, 08:38 PM by Corile.)

Here's the thing. When I saw the patch notes and Xoria's (I think?) statement on that there will be five different Consumer Goods commodities, all with the same name and just different prices one issue that I had thought of before came to my mind. And that is, Discovery seriously lacks any sort of brands. We have such wonderful backgrounds and corporate identities towards corporations (every NPC faction has its own logo and they all are so distinct!), however those corporations have produced very few things that are actually distinctive.

To show what I mean: look at the today's world. If you look at a corporation like the Coca-Cola Company, they own A LOT of brands just in the US.

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However, the list of branded things in Discovery is... let's see. Stabiline, Rheinbier, Liberty Ale, HydroGro, FloraGro. Also Gaian Wildlife, PlasFoam Conduits, Light Arms, Side Arms and Cardamine if you want to take it that far - it's still piss poor, the only competing products are fertilizers and guns. There is just way too few things that are distinctive. Everything is named very generically - "Consumer Goods", "Cigars" and so on. You could, instead of making 5 different Consumer Goods commodities reach to the official factions from every region and ask for some sort of a distinctive, branded name. That would open up a lot of possibilities and would help create a bond between corporations and their products. Bowex wouldn't export generic Consumer Goods, they'd export Badger&Co.™ Premium Quality Toilet Rolls or whatever. Think about it.

Discuss.

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