2020 Mining Overhaul, Phase 1: Price and Sellpoint Adjustments

[Spectre]

What was wrong with the Iridium sellpoint on Sabah? Not sure why it needed to be moved to inside Bretonia when Coronado worked just fine.

Basically, that's what was wrong with the entire system. Every faction wanted to have their own buyers, resulting in every ore going to very nearly every place.

When implementing a streamlining process like this, you either do, or do not. There is no try. No more half measures, Walt.
Five houses, ten fences, one independent. We cannot have four of the houses using the capital as their buyers, while Bretonia is using something in Coronado. We cannot commit to this basic setup, but add exceptions for every faction desirous of their own buypoint, that's pretty much what happened before and look where that left us.

It's also a deliberate attempt to keep the ores away from factions as much as possible, which is why the houses use the most diplomatically basic buypoints, their capital planets. Gallia is only an exception to save players from having to remember which of New Paris' docking rings is the correct one.

So, streamlining the system and making other, non-house systems pointless is the goal? Not only does that make certain areas seemingly devoid of traders, but it also makes the lanes funnels for pirates. Good for activity, yes, but not a motive to provide quality interactions. Add in that there are no 'half-profit destinations', and you're taking away locations that don't fit into this system that realistically would probably welcome a lot of these commodities. Sabah accepted Iridium, which was likely being used for construction of high-grade electronics for the people who owned the base. The Outcasts accepted Military Salvage, which was being rehashed into new parts for their capital fleets and cardi-farming systems. Aland accepted Niobium, which was likely being used to better facilitate the repair of the Bretonian Armed Forces. Chugoku accepted Gold Ore, which funded the Dragon's ambitions and likely helped to tool their fleets as well. Omega-52 accepted Silver Ore, which also was likely funding the Coalition, and helping with electronics. Both Durban Station and Alexandria Research Station accepted Azurite Gas, which realistically should always be something the Core and Order respectively would pay a good penny for. Syros Shipyard accepted Copper Ore, which the Corsairs would always need for circuitry for their Empire's war machine against Rheinland.
This new system throws all that away in the favor of 'streamlining the process' and 'making activity more common'. The examples I provided may be hard inRP takes on how the system currently runs, but they are realistic, they're balanced, and they already provide a good amount of activity.

To point out a key line..

Every faction wanted to have their own buyers, resulting in every ore going to very nearly every place.

What is the problem with this? I look at the system we have now and I see diversity. I see options.
I despise the word 'superfluous' because it's a get-out-of-jail-free card that developers and people who work with them can use to dish away features that add to the immersion or functionality of a game world. While I don't know if the word has been used yet here, I certainly see its after-effects. Removing options from trading is like making every gun in the game fire at the same speed. A small change that, ask Wesker about it, makes a critical difference.

I personally don't see any value in this new proposed system. There's a reason we ditched trains for airplanes.

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