Returning Player - Couple of Questions

[Redline.Inc]

Money was zimbabwe'd at 1:100 and economy is kind of in shambles - but there's a handful of good routes hauling high value high risk commodities like gold and iridium around

I literally just used the info in FLStat to build a spreadsheet for Disco Commodities and in looking at it I would describe the use of the word "shambles" to be a generous description.

Too damn close to half of all "best sell price" locations are in Gallia and Omicrons at the extreme NW and SE corners of the map, and way too many are at Unlawful bases or those otherwise hostile to common trading ID's.
That and the most valuable mineable resources being pigeon-holed into dead end locations and/or unlawfully controlled areas. (much to the delight of the pirates, for whom specifically this "economy" seems to have been tailored)

I'm happy to see that mineable resources have been folded into POB factory recipes, which is a good basis for a truly working economy, but it cannot sustain an economy alone and a further fleshed-out economy for the standard NPC commodities is needed. Otherwise, they serve no purpose.

Surely, something better than the low standard of "it's worth the most at the furthest point from where you got it" can be devised? Supply & Demand, maybe?

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