Community Feedback: Helium-3 Mining

[Nika]

To reiterate the way new econ is done: Haste wrote a script that grabs the input file, and outputs a ready file readable by the game containing the prices and buy/sell flags.
The input file contains bases and commodities that are produced/consumed/resold there.

The job of Econ is to populate that input file in a way that makes sense. This sounds easy compared to how it was done in the past, but please consider that we started with a BLANK slate. And with 91 commodities currently used in the economy, and 392 bases spread across 82 systems, populating it SUFFICIENTLY is going to simply take a while. We will get there, but those will be incremental changes enriching the economy over time. The current version is very much barebones, and both myself and Econ devs agree, but the work is being done to populate it as I'm typing this post.

We hope to get you the next version as soon as possible.

I don't expect momentary results and will actually be happy if work on it proceeds in due pace and without excessive pressure on people working on it, thus decreasing the likelyhood of awkward errors.

And I actually appreciate the fact that staff are no longer afraid to open up to community, and the transparency that it entails. That's a lot compared to before. And it's great.