Ore Changes, the problems with it.

[LuckyOne]

Honestly i agree on most of your points, especially the last one about short routes and railroading trades. It all feels very artificial now, while the last system felt somewhat organic.

However I don't think a revert is needed. Maybe adjust some sellpoints so they make more inRP sense (for example instead of just one station in the destination system you could have several buying).

Even the problem of "short routes" should resolve itself through POB owners realizing this is a great profit opportunity. For example if you have a POB halfway to the sellpoint you could start buying / reselling, allowing both you and your customers to make "faster" trades (for a reduced profit). That way you could still have secondary (tertiary etc.) sellpoints, they would just be player-driven instead of official.

However, the lack of "circular" routes is a bit annoying. Before you could maximize profit by going ore/ore or just ore/short common trade/ ore, but now you have to do long ore / long common commodity routes.