If you could change one thing about discovery what would it be?

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Make commodities like gold bar, and any other bar, in limited amount.
The miners will mine the ores, and then will deliver those ores (at low price) to the mining facilities. Those would then, be turned into bars, like 2 ores = 1 bar, and the prices would be like: sell ore for 1k, buy bar for 3k, that would be the price of 2 ores plus the facility profit.
And then, those bars would sell for the high prices that the ores cost atm.
If some mining faction doesnt have enough miners, then the facility would be out of bars to sell.

What this would change is, miners wouldnt need to wait for traders to come and buy the ores so they could make some money, and traders wouldnt need to look for miners to fill their cargo.


Other thing i would change: i dont see The Order as unlawful or pirate grp, i think they should be like a first defense against the Nomads, and should be supported by the 4 major houses.
But the Corsairs and Outcasts, both would try to enter the Nomad systems and get nomads for their researches, so they would be the 2 main enemies of The Order = missions, instead of the BHG.


Now, this could be great in rp, if the ships would be in limited amount. For example, those factions that have bases/planets that can build ships, they would need the items and commodities to do so. So, the players of those factions would have to transport those commodities, and the bases would be able to sell ships if they have enough commodities in storage.
If you want to buy a ship, but the base doesnt have enough materials, then you could act as independent trader and supply the base.
This would mean, that any trader would know that his job makes a difference in game, and the pirate grps would need the same thing, so they would need to get traders or ask independent traders, so maybe not good idea to demand credits from freelancers, coz maybe one day you could need his services.


Also, if the bases would spend water, food and h-fuel, even in short amounts, the players would need to supply the bases of their factions with those commodities, or they would run out, and would be closed until those commodities are supplied.