Consultation: Shipyard bonuses for Gallia and Rheinland

[jammi]

I'd like to throw in my two cents.

Regarding the old system I'm still think, that propulsion systems should use H-Fuel as ingredients and switching from Gold to Silver for Superstructure might be best.
Why? Because both commodities are mineable by the houses with the component boni. It can be used to focus on border skirmishes and corporate wars. As stated before, High-Temperature alloy would already contain Niobium (see 2.) and is reachable by Kusari and Rheinland.

Regardless of that I'd like to raise a few points for your changes:

1. If the Liberty-Kusari conflicts progresses, Rheinland might be the lawful monopoly for Kusari to get Interior systems
   
2. It might be a good idea to give shipping corporations player bases the possibility to manufactor non-mineable HRC. They haven't necessarily to be an ingredients for the ship components. They could also be manufactored out of low-value commodities, so one can still outperform local npc prices (or you tweak the production).
   
3. It might be good to review the NPC buy-prices for ship components, as there are limited players and limited ships, the demand is not endless. If there are no new ships the production of components would be a waste
   
4. Add more ship recipes please. I understand you had to start at some point, but enabling the possibility to produce house capitals below npc prices would give options.
   
5. Are the diamonds of Interiors replaceable with Hessian tears? Otherwise unlawful factions might loose the ability to run their own component production.
   
6. In your proposed Superstructures recipe I see Molybdenum. Will Daumann get mining and refining boni for that commodity or will this still be GMS mining only?
   

As always, please consider these points as my opinion and suggestion as a player. It does not claim to represent the optimal solution.

1. Possibly.
2. This is something we're considering, yes. The main difficulty is finding recipes that (a) make sense for each commodity, (b) don't require a disproportionate time investment, © don't create warped profit margins at the optimal POB placement.
3. This is also something we're looking at, yes.
4. Mostly we'd like to add new ships as construction options (when they appear), but existing ones are something we could potentially consider.
5. They would be, yes. I'll update that.
6. I thought Daumann already have this, but it transpires they do not. DHC were supposed to have Moly rather than Aluminium. I'll raise this for discussion and let you know. Ideally, there shouldn't be any resources that only have a single faction mining them.

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