Ruffles
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Posted - 2003.07.07 16:06:00 -
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Put in so that you can see only direct neighbouring regions. That way you would still have information to encourage cross-region trade.
Big paying missions should surely envolve some cross-region activity? But in this day and age of massive space travel we can't query the market cross-regions? You can't be serious? Hell if we can't find something in the shops now we go onto the internet, and that connects us to mutliple countries, and you are suggesting we can't communicate across regions?
Sure there are factions envolved, so why not introduce a cross-region data charge? People pay once per 24hrs and get access to one region of their choice, and pay that charge per neighbouring region of the region they are in. That will encourage cross-region trade, and hopefully would allow some regions to be good at producing one thing, and another having the demand for it.
At pressent I am pretty sure you are all pretty much aware that only certain items per region are in supply-demand enough to be running, yet there are lots of items on the market that aren't even in demand, or have no supply. What is the point of this if cross-region trade wasn't originally intended, but just isn't operating correctly at pressent?
The incentives aren't really there either for people to do cross region trades. Also I remember reading another post just recently about an idea to make the big paying trade hauls destinations out in 0.0 space. That would provide a means for pirates to be happy out there, and also finally a reason for the escourt pilots/mercenary companies to escourt traders.
There are plenty of reasons I would implement this, and saying no we shouldn't is pretty closed minded, unless you want every region to be self-sufficient in trade and not actually require cross-region trade?
Personally I would love to have cross-region trade pay better, and the ability to do market research cross-region, and it would also finally give me a reason to explore. Isn't much of a need for that at present, most regions have a pretty steady supply-demand that doesn't require you leaving to go buy/deliver the goods.
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