Well, you probably know it, but for those who dont: I am a Planetformer. Working for Bretonia and Liberty to terraform Planets, I am the Devil in Gaian eyes, I am the God for Planets (i laughed while writing this).
While IMG and Zoners for example get Cruisers, Battleships and more for being a bunch of Miners we got. . .to say it straight: Nothing. I am not complaining about not having a big, scary Battleship as Planetformer. I am complaining about our Trading, but this will be a long way to describe our Problem.
So well, as anyone can see 3 of our 5 Bases have nothing to Export. It's nearly impossible to Plan a Planetform Role Play Traderoute, which brings supplies to our Bases. Well we have 1 Traderoute, only that one. And it is still full of problems. I'll show you.
We start at Perth, buying our Wildlife. For my Shire it's 1,6 Million. And now we fly all the way through hole Bretonia and Liberty to Hudson, to be exactly Cold Bay underneath Planet Atka. All we can do is hoping we dont run into Gaians, Mollies, Outcasts, Corsairs, Hackers, Rogues, Xenos and Pirate ID'd people. The long trip is cheerful with the ~9 Million i sell the Wildlife for. But, what now? Cold Bay has no real Exports to buy, all i can do is buying Alien Organisms for 7 Million and bring them to Planet Minor in California where i make a Profit for 2 Million. Now we are on Minor and again, we have no Exports. Not even Water and Oxygen are needed anywhere else and we are in the middle of Liberty far away from Bretonia and have no idea. All i can do is flying emtpy to Manhatten (or buy VIPs in Cortez and bring them to Manhatten, but that is way too oorp and too dangerous). On Manhatten i bring the Mining Machinery to Pittsburgh and Boron to Thames in New London and then Robots back to Perth, why we need them is still unclear for me. They are probably needed on Ayr to help there.
There are small things you can bring to Planet Harris, but even that has no real Exports and is Dangerous because of the Kusaris patrouling around it. Even with that Battleship there the NPCs are still dangerous for my Shire, they easily kill my Shields in a few seconds. That really happened to me a few times in Leeds before. But really, it's impossible to plan a new Route for us. I tried it a lot of times and so did people who have a lot of more knowledge in Freelancer than me. But it ended up the same, with making the one and only Traderoute we have.
I know started mining with a new Planetform Ship, but our mining is based on Water and Alien Organisms. Currently I am mining Gold, bringing it to Fort Bush and taking Boron to Thames. Just to get a bit fresh air from the Trading. Yesterday I had a second Planetformer online, and i told him to take Optical Chips from Los Angeles. You cant believe how happy he was to take something else.
Sure I could just fly to some other bases and pick something up and bring it to let's say a BMM Base, but i want to bring supply for our Bases and not some random Rheinland Corporation.
Now I've seen the ALG Topic with all their suggestions and Plans. I tried to get Ideas for Planetform, even made me an Explorer Ship to fly around and see what's worth to be used for us. But only got a few ideas and suggestions, but i dont even know if they can be used. Some of them are maybe possible after a few changes, but after I've read some stuff and heard some stuff that certain people dont want to change anything or dont give a crap about that.
So please I call all the Planetformers, Developers Team and Community, please help us. Not only us, you will also help the Gaians shooting at us.
"Who is it doing this synthetic type of alpha beta psychedelic funkin'?"
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