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[Xoria]

Ever thought about that with this you could also task those who volunteer with dealing with new commodities to ease up your work? Obviously you'd have to do a quick check on if everything has been done properly, but imo that would be a way less amount of work than doing it entirely yourself. This could speed up the process and/or lessen the amount of stuff you would have to deal with yourself. And the instructions for said volunteers on what and how to do are already given.

While I have described a general procedure here, most commodities involve unique factors. It would take more time to properly train someone and then check their work than it would to do it myself.

In addition to this:
How far your freedom extends when it comes to multiplying commodities in order to avoid balance complexity and issues you described in your last post?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by freedom, but the best answer is probably: whatever I decide that I need to do to make things work.

Xoria, what do you think of making Trade Hubs - Capital Planets & nearby stations - T1 for most of commodities to direct people to one place if they wish. This would allow traders to meet at these points and perhaps allow the BHG and Freelancers to seek job opportunities.

So far as practicality and balance allows this is already the case. If a single base or close group of bases (like Manhattan, Newark, Trenton) are all the best in a House for every commodity, then that will reduce imports to the rest of that House's systems. There are not many commodities that do not have at least one base in the capital system in Tier 1 anyway (between shipping stations, capital planet, processing stations, and shipyards), and if not, then the Tier 1 consumers are past the capital system from the perspective of the production location. If a trader enters and leaves a House without passing through the capital system, that is somewhat unusual. I doubt much trade is going on exclusively between the near House border systems like Colorado and Shikoku, California and Manchester, Frankfurt and Honshu, or Stuttgart and Cambridge. The big profits pass through the capital systems due to geography, if nothing else.

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