#EV NOVA BUY AND SELL FASTER. SERIES#

So, my idea would be, to make a different currency for every planet, based on import/export value. So i think to myself, that in reality, supply and demand are not really the main thing that goes into the price, value of the currency is. Lets say, i dont like how the prices work. What do you think? can u do that for me? Youve seen the picture, didnt you? This, what you are doing, is basically the same as me coming to you and telling u to paint me The Lady Of Shalott, but blond. and think to yourslef 'ka-ching! jobes done!' Remove it from the game and you remove the loaded gun from your first act. The player finds out why - because the dev nerfed it to uselessness, the player complains about it. The players sees the trade economy, the player wants to participate in it, the player realizes he's now allowed to. IT's just a simple Chekhov's gun scenario. Alex needs to either find a way to make legal trading fun and hard to exploit or he needs to remove the very idea from the game. A meta answer is not an answer, that's just bad game design. The player isn't dumb, he sees the economy is there and asks himself the obvious question: why can't I make a profit trading? All the elements are there, so why not? the answer: because Alex doesn't want you to. That economy was then artificially crippled so as to stop the player from interacting with it. Starsector has a working trade economy the player was meant to interact with. I'm sorry, but it's not that hard to grasp. Especially since every time this problem is brought up people keep bringing up the bloody black market as if that's anything more than a substitution. Even just removing the tariffs is better game design then the present system. Not removing the system if he can't find a way to make it fun is bad game design. Keeping the system in game whilst artificially gimping it is what's bad game design.

As long as the system stays in the game there will be people like me complaining about the tariffs because we see what the system actually is and how it's being artificially gimped.

Then he realized it could be made unenjoyable and made it so the player is disincentivized from using it.

#EV NOVA BUY AND SELL FASTER. SERIES#

Alex spend a lot of time on making this system and when he realized it could be easily abused and that the abuse would turn the the game into a grindy and not at all fun slog he gimped the system via tariffs.ДЄlex spend a lot of time making a trade system reminiscent of the one in games like the Escape Velocity series and it's clones. The only reason you can't meaningfully and legally interact with a system that is already in game is because of the tariffs. Either the open markets are made actually usable, in a manner like the one I have described or Alex just removes them from the game.Д¬urrently you see there is trade, you see there are civilian hull freighters, you can acquire said freighters, you can make a trade fleet indistinguishable from an AI controlled fleet and you see that prices react to you buying and selling on the open market. There is literally no reason to have the open market, or to be able to buy civil hull freighters if we can't do profitable legal trade. My point is that the Open market needs to either be made functional or removed.

Ev nova buy and sell faster.