You know what we need? A hotspot.

[Jack_Henderson]

I would do it by upping the ore prices

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In all seriousness, though, we need a few places that are more profitable to be in as a trader, miner, smuggler, anything. Basically "guide" people through a certain corridor. That'll get pirates to camp the place, lawfuls to try and exterminate the pirates, and so forth.

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Spot the link?

I know, I would profit from it... or... would I?
Hubs put a lot of strain on the factions that are operating in there. Remember the old Dublin when BMM miners were shot so hard that Cannon deactivated mining in a "F you all!" move? Reason was that too many sanctions poured in. That's when the last remaining hub was shredded. A bad move in retrospect.

It might look like "Jack is trying to buff his own stuff", but in contrast you also increase the risk a lot. Working in a proper hub is much harder than working in the spread out ore regions like now.

So... I would definitely want the hubs back. And would also gladly expose my faction in it to unlawfuls. Just to make sure that this is not perceived as a totally selfish move.

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[Kosa]

4.85 O7 Copper Ore rush was the thing. There was even smuggling involved as it was against Rheinland law to bring Copper ore to Liberty. Huge activity there.

My advise: Drop all ore prices to 80% except for 1 or 2. Those 1-2 mining spots will rise in activity. As well as the trade routes to sellpoints.

[Panzer]

The hotspotts i want to start up again are:

Cambridge - un-screwup the jumphole connections leading to sig17's alien organism selling point
Dublin - Buff gold. Ridiculously.
Sig13 - gas mining and previous jumphole connections (except the NB one moved far from the lane)
T23 - Noobium.
NY - delete Pingasylvania and up contraband prices further.
O7 - All minerals.
Theta - let Outcasts and Corsairs meet there. Why not I ask?!

To summarize, derest devs, you seem to have underestimated Digi Anvil's wisdom in building the vanilla FL glaxy map. the potential and RP justification is all there to create player-populated hotspots in even and practical distances from one another and therefore capable of interacting in short order. I'm very glad trade options are so numerous and well-balanced, but it's only part of the global picture.

Revert as much as possible to vanilla's geography, keep the new commodity balance and buff mining profitability again. A smaller, much smaller galaxy will translate to a better one, since fewer bases and potential routes will be far easier to manage.

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[SnakThree]

We've got Alberta. Try going there without being pirated! Almost guaranteed interaction, that system draws people unless it's empty.

The problem with it is that interactions are pirate-trader or pirate-pirate. Lawfuls are nowhere to be seen, because it is not worth to have ship due to shortness of interactions and due to open-space cruising.

Look at Colorado and California. They are the go-through systems and there is plenty of actions and longer encounters than ones in Alberta.

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[Redon]

Personally, I'm kind of bummed that selling Bretonian ore to Rheinland instead of Liberty is pretty much always the more profitable alternative now (unless I'm missing something). It removes a trader's choices in picking another route without losing out on profit, and I miss the ore filled transports flocking to New York en masse.

Whether you like Liberty being an activity hotspot or not, it's been that one guarantee quite reliably for a long time, and it needs the traders to stay this way.

[Elmothehorse]

Activity hubs are one of the things that are needed. Other things that will increase fun and activity:

-less distance and useless boring systems devoid of new content and filled with copy-pasted bases with bar characters who think they are a vanilla character on another station in another system.

-more reasons and motivations to make money and trade/mine. I havent traded or mined in like 6 months. Dont need it. I make more money than I need protecting people from bluemessage-hunters. I dont fly caps a lot and even if I did everyone around me would be trying to make my game experience hell because they think they need to fight "capspam" this way. I got an idea how to fix that problem but I should probably explain that in another thread.

-more motivation to make make a new faction/group, to join a faction/group, to make up forum or ingame RP. By motivation I mean positive incentives, not negative ones. Not like "I need to do this so I dont get sanctioned or so I can get some gear that I really wanted", but more like "I do this because its fun and is what I really want to do, and no one is gonna stomp on me cause they dont like that someone else than them organizes in a group". I have RP stories in my head about stations that I could build, factions/Groups I could form. But when I think realistically, I think "nope, the faction leaders in power are never gonna tolerate that, simply because they wouldnt be running it themselves". Thats based on what I saw happen to other groups.

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[Coin]

lets have a hub in kusari. <insert-choice-of-deity-here>knows that it's been dead since 83.

hubs are an excellent idea - perhaps they could be strategic ones? perhaps they could be blatant bribes for faction activity. if all the official factions from one house are getting warning signs, how about building a hub there to encourage their activity?

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[Shomy]

Bring back two week random ore price buff. That might do the thing.

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[Karst]

Bring back two week random ore price buff. That might do the thing.

Totally agree.

If done in a balanced fashion with enough variation, we get all the good times of chaotic hotspot, but without limiting them to certain factions as permanent hotspots would be.

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[Strichev]

I wholeheartedly agree with Karst.

An automated system of random buffs, drawing from a pre-determined set of commodities would eliminate any potential bias and human laziness.