Honestly, my opinion is that shipbuilding is to easy and too profitable.
Players already practicing insane prices on systems and ships to make things worst.
I also think shipbuilding meccanics should not swap with the politics, the materials are what they are and there are consequences and shortages because of economic sanctions, such is life
So at the end this should be a economy thing and so...
Here is the breakdown of my toughts :
There are basicaly 3 possible final prices for ship systems:
Most systems average cost around 9k variable with PoB location.
"worst" case scenario=
means paying haulers some profit
means getting the items from the closest possible location
Means final sell prica around 12k/15k
cheap af scenario=
means get stuff from the cheapest location
means haulers get no profit
Means final prica around 6k/9k
BMF way =
means you take gold everywere
means bringing stuff from cheapest location
Means final prica around -10k/-13k
Interactions are reduced and to increasse this as well as trade...
The solution seems quite simple to me and everyone will hate it:
I will use the superstructures as an example:
Superstructures: current
consumed_dynamic_alt = 100, commodity_gold, commodity_pirate_gold=========replace the mineable for a foreign one like aluminium
consumed = commodity_ship_hull_panels, 100
consumed = commodity_ablativearmor, 100
consumed = commodity_super_alloys, 100
So by swaping the mineable, the trading becomes mandatory, this can be done with all other systems, remenber that the max WORTH of a system rarely exceeds the 15k per unit (unless we speaking about the stupidly high ADV BC ship prices)
I also think that a new rule should be introduced were the hauling of systems would only be legal if done by certain factions that at the moment do not have Bonus on anything.
As an example for Bretonia should be gateway i believe they have no Bonus maybe, Universal Shipping for Liberty and so on, these wouls be theyr "white Boxes" in a way.
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