Mining Revamp

[Karst]

There are a few more specifics I noticed.

GMS cannot ship its aluminum ore anywhere. All buyers are hostile.

Bering and Texas as premium scrap sources create an undesirable redundancy. Again, with the players we have it's problematic if a mining operation has the option to move a system over to evade piracy. It also creates problems for pricing.

The same applies to Orkney and Tau-23 being Niobium sources, and Sigma-13 and 19 being Helium-3 sources.

Aquabat buying Helium-3 is problematic, as it is a short route in a very quiet part of space completely away from lanes and traffic (though to be fair this problem already exists).

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Also now that I've had some more time, I'd like to make a more general comment on this.

Since it isn't really explained in the original post, I must ask what the reasoning for this fairly wide-ranging overhaul is?
Besides maybe a couple specific issues, I wasn't aware that there were major problems with the previous selection of buyers.

What I notice from these changes is that they significantly diversify ore buyers in the houses. As an example, Liberty has Manhattan, Denver, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Detroit, and St. Albans, all buying various ores. This is highly problematic for piracy as there is no easily determinable standard route, and thus less of an opportunity to catch ore-bearing traffic. With the player numbers we have, I think that would be something to be desired.
I think it's preferable to have only two ore buyers per house to streamline traffic and facilitate piracy.

Another problem with changing buyers is that established roleplay may suffer. Groups may have had specific arrangements with previous buyers which now no longer purchase an ore.

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