(05-23-2022, 05:35 PM)Karlotta Wrote: As I already said in pm a while ago, having different buy and sell prices creates a number of problems, and doesn't do anything to address the glaring problems disco and disco's economy has.
While some people may be euphoric now because they think they'll be able to make easy money, they will probably be disappointed for 2 reasons:
- The "customers" will probably avoid using their pob if it costs them non negligible amounts of money.
- People will be motivated to build their own POBs instead of spending credits on someone else's. That will lead to POB spam in the same locations, rivalry between them, efforts to eliminate/block competitors, and drama.
Hopefully the bottom line will be that you can sell ore to a base for an appropriate low price, and rebuy for a high one. From what I read, it may be as simple as an active POB owner setting a reminder on their infotab to check the prices. We use commands for quite a bit around here, what's one more?
More so, I speak to your last point about building new POB's. Things like this, and a few other upgrades we could make to POB's, warrants changes to the POB construction system. First, I think POB builder ships should cost at least 100 million credits. Not only that, but they should add the requirement of 1 unit of another commodity that you can only buy off an NPC base for 100 million credits (a unit). And that would mean, each POB built would also basically cost 100 million up front. I think that would take care of frivolous base building once and for all. But, also allow for increasing the value of POB's in many ways (like upgrading starting strength, defenses, storage, making it a rule players need a Core 2 POB to siege other POB's at all).
(05-23-2022, 05:35 PM)Karlotta Wrote: Also, is it really a good idea to allow players to make credits without actually logging?
Ahh but it is a 24/7 world. As a short range miner, it's better to fill bases knowing its at the right price. The same goes for being the trader. In turn the significance of bases changes and their potential value goes up. Economically, some places might see a jump in costs if they pay fees to run a mining base. Or, a greater interest from concerned parties in general.
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