Jumphole Overhaul

[Karlotta]

Oh look, it's another Karlotta thread about the same thing. I see you still don't understand why your proposal wouldn't work. Your previous thread went quiet, so let's make a new one huh?

I stopped answering the thread for several reasons, chief among them being that it's already served its purpose of getting the right people to think and talk about the topic, and from the looks of the last patch notes devs have started considering this course of action (or they already did before and only mentioned it now).

The reason I made the poll thread was because someone else made a poll thread without taking the 3rd alternative into account. But if you insist, I'll take the time to explain (again) what you're missing, even if you seem to be more interested in putting your greater knowledge of network problems not related to the way discovery actually works on display.

If three routes individually facilitate 1% of traffic, cutting two of them still makes the third one have only 3% of traffic, which is a negligible increase. Players would not notice the difference. Your error lies in comparing only the three routes to each other, rather than comparing them globally to all routes. In reality, you wouldn't even get triple the traffic because previous destinations are no longer valid. That's what's meant by "cutting content".

Thank you for finally posting your "maths".

What you've missed is that I'm not only cutting 2 routes for the benefit of one and thereby potentially tripling traffic on one, but I'm intending to cut a lot more, thereby achieving a larger overall effect.

The second thing is that the proposal also involves making certain routes quicker (and therefore more attractive) by creating 1-jump routes where there used to be only two-or-more jump routes.

The third thing you're missing is that I'm not aiming at maximum effect the way you are. I'm aiming at maximum effect/deveffort ratio.

For example, even if I manage to raise encounters only 10-30% (by cutting more much than 2 routes as well as making other routes more attractive by making them faster than they used to be), and your complete economy overhaul manages to raise them by 30-90%, my way still 1: It takes (much) less than 5% of the dev work that your complete economy overhaul would take and 2: Nobody is going to do your complete economy overhaul anyway and 3: Your premises are based on wrong assumptions, such as traders always taking the safest route and 4: Even if they did what you said, removing the choice of routes would do more to increase encounters than leaving more routes hoping the economy creates more encounters although traders put safety over fastest route (with which you've pretty much contradicted yourself).

But please, go ahead and tell us more about networks and use as much latin and technical terms as you can, then call us ignorant and whiny. Or better yet, tell it to the dev who is responsible for the economy (which is not the topic of this thread). I'm sure you two will have a great time.

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