Mining in Omicron Gamma

[Carlos_Benitez]

• Mining artefacts should be profitable.
  
• Smuggling artefacts should be profitable.
  
• Crete (and bases in 94) should be the cheapest places in Sirius to get artefacts.
  
• Artefact smuggling should be extremely HIGH RISK.
  

By current logic, the only way to make mining artefacts in Gamma profitable is to increase sale-price on Corsair prices. This also makes them more expensive to buy there, so decreases profitability of smuggling, and upsets the entire economy.

The Solution
Add a fixed number of credits value to artefacts at EVERY base in Sirius.

Eg. add 1000 credits to the value of artefacts at all bases.

At Crete, artefacts are currently around 300 credits a piece. They sell for 2800 ish. Profit=2500 per unit.
Value of 4000 units at Crete= 1,200,000 credits. (less than 1.2 mill for a miner's hour's work)

If we add 1000 credits to the value of a unit of Artefacts at ALL locations;
At Crete artefacts would be worth 1300 a piece. They would sell for 3800 a piece.
Profit= 2500 per unit. (profitability of smuggling unchanged).
Value of 4000 units at Crete= 5,200,000 credits.
(profitability of mining increased. "Riskyness" of smuggling increased).


I hope that made sense. Basicly, what I am saying is that you CAN have your cake an eat it; Mining CAN be made more profitable by changing commodity prices whilst not effecting the economy in a practical sense.
Also, increased riskiness of smuggling is, in my opinion, a very good thing. (ie. smugglers have more money at stake, if they lose a shipment).

I believe this should also be done with Cardimine, and other high-risk commodities.

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