ADMIN Question to Community

[Dusty Lens]

[4/5/11 1:51:43 PM] Dusty Lens: On the note of trade centers I'm somewhat confused why it is that you guys are pushing the 4.86 war yet aren't making any moves to up trade IN gallia
[4/5/11 1:51:50 PM] Dusty Lens: Where activity is required the most
[4/5/11 1:52:09 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): why is activity required anywhere?
[4/5/11 1:52:24 PM] Dusty Lens: The Taus aren't hurting and introducing a new element for the sake of giving the GRN something to do feels a bit like putting the cart before the horse when an alternative would be to up the trade runs into Gallia
[4/5/11 1:52:43 PM] Dusty Lens: Good point Athenian.
[4/5/11 1:52:58 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): next thing we'll have lobby groups
[4/5/11 1:53:01 PM] Dusty Lens: I'm just kidding, it was a stupid point.
[4/5/11 1:53:12 PM] Dusty Lens: Jokes aside.

***following omitted as it's basically just stupid and doesn't cast some in a good light***

[4/5/11 1:56:06 PM] Dusty Lens: Recently Dieter questioned if we should get the ball rolling on the 4.86 events by enabling GRN forces to begin the Taus invasion.
[4/5/11 1:56:12 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): yes
[4/5/11 1:56:15 PM] Dusty Lens: One of the goals here would be to give the GRN something to do.
[4/5/11 1:56:50 PM] Dusty Lens: However we lack the player structure in the Taus to support this and it would undermind some of the only activity the trade corps have, namely leaving Gallia.
[4/5/11 1:57:40 PM] Dusty Lens: If one of the goals is to provide the GRN with something to do the better goal seems to be, in my view at any rate, to up the commercial worth of 2-3 commodities within Gallia to encourage domestic and foreign trade by both lawful and unlawful elements.
[4/5/11 1:57:49 PM] Dusty Lens: Trade gives pirates and lawfuls alike something to do.
[4/5/11 1:57:51 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): Cool
[4/5/11 1:58:01 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): Maybe something suitably Gallic
[4/5/11 1:58:03 PM] Dusty Lens: Essentially a carrot or two in the back end of Gallia.
[4/5/11 1:58:08 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): Is there a garlic commodity?
[4/5/11 1:58:12 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): Rather than carrots
[4/5/11 1:58:14 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): Wine
[4/5/11 1:58:17 PM] Dusty Lens: But, to answer your question about "why"
[4/5/11 1:58:20 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): Cheese and Condoms
[4/5/11 1:58:27 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): I know why
[4/5/11 1:58:40 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): Because the game stagnates for folk
[4/5/11 1:58:47 PM] Dusty Lens: One of the efforts of the revitalized trade systems Xoria keeps attempting to perfect and the mining system was to both draw persons out of New York and encourage inter system trade.
[4/5/11 1:58:50 PM] Athenian (aka Colm): and they go back to bad habits
[4/5/11 1:59:09 PM] Dusty Lens: While it's common knowledge that not every system will be habitated Discovery and FL works on a system of chokepoints, you don't need universal population so much as you need movement.
[4/5/11 1:59:24 PM] Dusty Lens: Gallia was opened up some time ago but lacks for a worthy trade commodity, this has resulted in zero movement.
[4/5/11 1:59:40 PM] Dusty Lens: Add a trade commodity and see renewed movement through the lower taus and into Gallia itself.
[4/5/11 2:00:19 PM] Dusty Lens: Good trade goods would likely be something along the lines of artifacts, alien organisms going in and wine, holotainment bands going out.
[4/5/11 2:00:39 PM] Dusty Lens: Ideally goods which are specifically consumed and produced in the backend lawful system of Gallia


tl;dr: The Taus are saturated with player presence as it is. There's no need to introduce yet another element into a region in the name of "giving them something to do" or "forwarding a storyline bogged down in dev process" when a much healthier alternative is available which benefits more factions than just the GRN.

Up trade within and out of Gallia to create traffic. Traffic begets unlawfuls. Unlawfuls beget Lawfuls. Lawfuls beget battleships. Battleships beget forum. Good times.