Discovery Economy

[Ingenious]

One of the things I think could be improved with the Discovery economy is a more ubiquitous nature for certain commodities. With the current system, it seems there are several hot points for both supply and demand, production and consumption, etc... but beyond these points for purchase and sale, most bases offer a standard price and do not sell an item. I think this is inaccurate.

Granted, there is only so much you can do before people start taking advantage of subtleties within a price network. However, I personally think it would be good to envision the prices as more of a "scalar field" than with only a few good points to trade a commodity. I am generalizing a bit too much, but I would imagine one would be able to find the commodity Food Rations for sale at a great number of bases, not just a few.

In brief, I believe that, for a given commodity, the number of bases offering a "default" buy/sell price should be minimized. That's a mouthful of a statement right there.