Ore Thread Part Deux: Fluorine Gas Electric Boogaloo

[jammi]

Right! So I've been pondering ore some more, and Uranium alone isn't quite going to cut it. I'm really happy to see a resurgent PFI faction, and Poole is where the action's at. Or rather, it isn't, because despite being a hub of PFI bases (and a mining operation) there's no reason to go there.

Currently, Fluorine Gas is just your average commodity with no real draw to it. It's basically Iridium - a standard commodity that can be mined, but there's literally no point to doing so because you can buy it dirt cheap from the station next door. It's got exactly the same profit margins as any other commodity, so why would anyone go through the hassle of detouring from their standard route to go and pick it up?

There's been a scandalously wasted opportunity here, one that could benefit Planetform immensely.

1) Remove Florine as a commodity from Methyr-Tydfill Mining Station. Replace it with Terraforming Gases or something, I don't really care. Or just a non-ore variant, I dunno. Bit like Aluminium/Aluminium Ore.

2) Give Fluorine ore status, and provide Planetform with exclusive 4.0 mining bonuses on the standard array of ships, including the Clydesdale (same as BMM).

3) Add low sellpoints to Douglas Station in Bretonia. Add medium sellpoints to Planet Harris and California Minor. Add high sellpoints to Cold Bay Depot and Planet Miura. Sorted.

Thoughts?

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[Avalanche]

Would be a great - Anything to help a faction out, especially a Bretonian one I have to say.

[nOmnomnOm]

Sounds like it can work.
Where would it be mined? Also in reference to I am guessing the Gaians and the Mollys?

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[FynnMcScrap]

Jep... noticing that you ponder stuff connected to PFI :
what about alien organisms ?

I tried mining some scruffies near the Shrine in Baffin just a moment ago, to no avail.
Is the stuff a mineable commodity Y / N ?
Or are we all supposed to fly to Kurile and buy it there.... ?

Same as with Iridium and Fluorine I suppose,
even though it´s included in the mining review.

[SnakThree]

What about all other factions with no real hook a.k.a mining?

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[jammi]

Sounds like it can work.
Where would it be mined? Also in reference to I am guessing the Gaians and the Mollys?

There's already a massive ice cloud in Poole that drops Fluorine as a commodity. The issue with that is outlined above.

What about all other factions with no real hook a.k.a mining?

How is that even relevant? The point of this thread is that there is a faction that can receive a big boost from a logical and extremely simple tweak. Is the implied argument there, "this shouldn't happen until everyone else can have something too?"

[nOmnomnOm]

OOOOO OOOO OOOOO!
Alien Organisms for the
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread...812&page=2
The thead there ^
OO OOO!

also what would the prices approx be like? for the new ores

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[FynnMcScrap]

What about all other factions with no real hook a.k.a mining?

Most trading corporations have a chance to mine something, and Hackers mine traders.

Military, terrorist or pirate factions have other goals and boni, trade coops have mining.

[SnakThree]

What about all other factions with no real hook a.k.a mining?

Most trading corporations have a chance to mine something, and Hackers mine traders.

Ageira, Universal.

Bowex, Gateway.

Republican Shipping.

What can these factions mine?

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[nOmnomnOm]

What about all other factions with no real hook a.k.a mining?

One step at a time i guess but bretonia DOES need some more activity.

But jammi are we just bolting out on gold in Dublin?

but i guess when it was buffed prices then no one still touched it much. Or am i wrong?
I'd like to see more bret miners down there or in the other gold ore area.


Edit: Also for the post above.
Those are shipping companies. not mining ones.