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Balancing prices for VIPS (and commodities specific to Orbital's Spa and Cruise) - Nautilus - 03-12-2014 I have two OS&C chars and everytime I get in game, I hope to see a change for encouraging players to play and helping them to fit in the role of this faction. As you may know, in forum were made some proposals regarding commodities, prices, cargo capacity for liners etc... but in the last beta update for Discovery 4.87 Conquest it seems that nothing changed. I'm thinking now that our devs and admins should consider balancing prices for commodities specific to Orbital's Spa and Cruise before the final release. Sure, it is nice to fly aboard an expensive luxury liner but most of the time, the profit earned after a long trip is quite small, especially when you encounter pirates and you're forced to interact and negotiate with them just to save the life of the passengers. So... as a simple player, owner of a luxury liner, after I tried to find routes that generally involve transportation of people (VIPs, vacationers, tourists or passengers), I found that it really feels the need for a balancing. I'm not talking about to code a supercommodity as Coin suggested here although it wouldn't be a bad thing. I refer just to a pricing adjustment for those commodities specific to Orbital's but also to a repositioning for points of sale. Just an example: each VIP takes up to 5 standard units of cargo space. Surprisingly, they can be bought mostly from Gallia but OS&C does not have access in this house. Excepting the Golden Dragon Casino, their price is over 10k and the profit earned is quite low. On the other side, VIPS are mostly businessmen, government officials, celebrities or top-tier criminals. So I wonder: wouldn't it be logical as they to be relocated on the main planets of large systems from each house? In my opinion, VIPS should be differentiated according with their origins (something similar to the passengers). Will be nice to have Liberty VIPS, Rhienland VIPS, Kusari VIPS and so on... This can lead or create new opportunities in RP. Anyway, there are a lot of improvements that should be made regarding "humans cargo" but, taking in consideration that prices can now be modified server side, please reconsider at least the prices for VIPS. Thank you. // EDIT: Keep in mind that OS&C is not a faction that can earn profit from trading with ore or mining. Help us a bit for a better iRP fittting for all those luxury liners.