Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2014.01.16 22:00:00 -
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Odd, I did not get the 'How would you make S&I better if you were in charge?' question. Instead I got one on cooperative S&I. Something about having better monitoring tools for who is contributing what.
What I said is a do not want any such tools. I want it built into the game so its inherent. An example is the current market you get at any station. Example:
Miners mine, and place their minerals up for sale. Builds buy it, and the miners get paid for their effort. No one need keep track of how many hours who mined what. No tools are needed. Its all inherent in the system.
But its not really "cooperative industry game play". The market is faceless, there is no need for all who contribute to be in the same corp or know each other.
Going back to my mining example, it all falls apart if its a multi-person mining op where people dump their ore in an orca. One person takes it to station. Now how do you make sure everyone is paid? Many solutions have been found, but all require someone to do a bunch of work sorting out payments.
What if instead the miners SOLD ore to the hauling ship? That is the ship had a market built in? The hauler sets buy orders for the ore. Then sits back and watches the ore come in while the ISK goes out. No additional effort is needed to insure everyone is paid for their effort. Not tools are needed to track contributions. Its all inherent.
For bigger projects there could be corp owned and alliance owned markets. This lets a big task get coordinated just by setting buy and sell orders. As an incentive, broker fees and taxes would be less. (And maybe increased at NPC stations).
Such private markets would also help with the case of an industrialist being asked to build 200 PvP Thrashers, with various different fits. Make everything, fit all the different ships, keep them sorted by fit.. its a pain. Better would be to give the users the ISK and let the them fit their own ships, buying the parts off the corp market.
CCP; if you want to foster cooperative S&I play, you need to make it so cooperation is easier (or at least no harder) than buying and selling on the market, and most likely with an ISK savings to boot. Right now the game punishes trying to be cooperative.
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