(06-11-2020, 08:45 AM)Karst Wrote: I don't think you've really thought this through.
You're right, I'm kind of shooting for the hip here. But if you make it so your processing factory requires stuff that's most easily found in Liberty or Rheinland you might think about putting your POB somewhere else but the final destination, to increase the chances of your ore being processed by random people doing trading.
It's simple player motivation really. Nobody really wants to fly half the map to sell something as mundane as Neon to a POB. But people will happily freight cargo on short routes if they need some quick cash.
Of course if this were implemented the whole economy would need to be overhauled significantly. The main source of income would then be refining or selling ore / commodities to POBs, not planets. Both factions and traders would log in higher numbers during POB sieges if they perceived POBs as important sources of their income.
POB builders could compete on prices and margin, just like how real economy works.
