Kodiak Research Station, Alaska $29,500
Sunderland Research Station, Newcastle $32,000
Kansai Research Station, Honsh $27,400
Schatten Research Station, Frankfurt $25,800
would be reasonable prices. Actually a bit on the low side, if we take effective mining rates into account and don't just use the nominal 2x multiplier.
Nomads need higher paying missions or bounties for killing everything. We dont need to sit on our asses and collect more vespene gas.
I mean, you at least need minerals, otherwise how are you going to construct additional pylons?
(I'm half serious, don't the nomads require power nodes? That's kinda why they built the dyson sphere.)
Maybe that gas could be used to build/power some badass anti-nomad weapon, which could do massive damage to those mega-nomads we see on events. That would give people the reason to mine it, and nomads reason to protect it.
Regarding mining azurite by nomads themselves, I do not like that idea much.
If indie noms had tractor beam, they could attack miners and take the gas as loot.
inRP reason: Need it to construct additional pilons/tastes sweet/whatever.
ooRP: They could sell it on their bases for profit 40k+, maybe exchange for equipment or use as fuel for cloaks/jds