Discovery Freelancer: Fire and Fortune - Release

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What is important is that the economy is worked on and more fully finished. That undoubtedly includes adding "missing" commodities. I doubt we're putting the 24 Silvery-White Metals™ back into the game, though.

Look at the routes that are there. The economy is a barebones minimum. A "skeleton". No: we couldn't have kept the old economy in a patch that changes this much about systems.

While I was involved in the econ rework it was mostly handled by some players from the community and @Mephistoles , who did the bulk of the work. One person setting up what every base in the game buys and sells from scratch is a lot of work. Therefore the economy is incomplete. Adding 250 more commodities would not have magically fixed this: instead you would've had 300+ commodities with zero routes between them.

I suggest looking at the actual gameplay changes of the economy, and also considering that a lot of the changes are PoB-centric and not currently available while PoBs are in holiday mode. Give us some time.

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I'd also like to note that an announcement was made in the official Discovery Discord that we were looking for community members interested in helping, and many people were invited to help. A lot of people saw the sheer size of the econ_bases document however and immediately bounced back out. It's easy to say "Just ask more people for help" while ignoring the fact that we did exactly that and it often resulted in people realizing this isn't a small task and giving up immediately. There is also the issue of "too many chefs spoiling the broth" in these instances where cleaning up erroneous entries starts taking longer than, well, doing the work with fewer people would.

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