Can Junkers... well junk?

[Bazza]

There is a better place to get scrap at the moment.

I wonder where it is.

Waaay ahead of ya.

I think.


I have a few ideas regarding the scrap business, I, as a career Junker, would love to see it greatly expanded on.

One of them was to increase the different types of raw materials and "generic" goods, turning Freelancer into a *Tycoon game.

For example, instead of Copper -> Base it would be Copper Ore -> Smelter = Copper Wire -> Factory + other goods (industrial planet/base) = Finished product (perhaps expanding on Consumer Goods?) -> Consumer ("affluent" planet/base) Say, Copper + Silicon + Aluminium = Consumer Electronics/Computer Components etc.

Bauxite Ore -> Aluminium Mill = Aluminium -> Factory + something -> Aluminium Hull Panels

Iron Ore + Coal (there wouldn't be coal in space, so planet-side operations?) -> smelter = Steel + other material = product. Scrap Metal would be taken to a smelter built for it, which would then sell Steel, Copper and Aluminium at decent prices. Culebra would be one of those. People make a bit of money bringing in scrap metal, and make a bit more taking the metals to a factory for recycling.


Scrap fields would still drop the usual "scrap metal", but the player would become much more involved in the operation, since they will probably then take the recovered materials to another factory, increasing interaction.

Playing Railroad Tycoon II too much in my early years has permanently scarred me.:(

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