city building/system management is fun for me (I often play games like that). Excessive personal hauling/lack of ability to shift the quantity of mats needed to do much unfortunately reduces the fun :/
Or existing NPC infrastructure for that matter.
Ah yes. Ad hominem. Because you literally have nothing else.Individual ego? There's only one person arguing that less people should be able to fully engage with content.
There are 400 billion stars or so in this galaxy; enough for everyone to have their dreams multiple millions of times over; and yet there will always be people like you who demand that there be artificial scarcity and exclusion to make yourself feel special. Whether it's because you think you have less of a real life so you'll be able to put the time in grinding, or because you've got an active guild so you'll be able to apply a sense of self worth through association, the fact is that you are deliberately demanding the lowering the quality of the game for other people in order to enforce a sense of your own superiority of play. And then slowly getting more and more toxic in your responses to people asking to be able to gain satisfaction from it; but there's no skill involved in getting more out of the game, no knowledge... just a willingness to reduce your own quality of life down to repetitive grind. That's not something to be proud of and, even within the game's own lifetime, not something that will ever get much recognition.
And the limits on Fleet Carrier movements are because of the poor design of the game/server engine. Not because of your bizarre economic theories. Although according to them, why should you be able to leap quickly between systems? You should enjoy the Pride and Accomplishment of artificial time gating. And those who can put the time in to waiting for carrier movements are clearly superior...
Personally, I think the worst element of the new system is that there's a 30 day reset on completing it, which forces people into inhumane grinds rather than letting them go at their own pace, which would be a nice compromise. And it eats your 25m if you reset to choose a more reasonable station size target. And so far, I'm not sure yet if further system upgrades are also on the same timer... And you can't easily see what other people's stations need, so leaving it for people to unselfishly take smaller profits by helping build up the happiness of all mankind isn't so obvious. I wonder, you think Thargoids say "We'd sooner have a smaller empire than let you build quickly and make me look less important?"
No, it is not a feature all can enjoy. Game has been that way they made BGS silly putty and sanctioned PMFs. The people expecting otherwise have not been paying attention.
What is wrong with an explosion of colonies?
Where? Only thing I can see is, as I've already said several times now... is that it can be done by an individual... not to what degree or how easy it is to do it individually. This is no basis to say everything should be able to be done by an individual, nor easily.
So you ignore my argument but throw words in my mouth. Where did I say or even imply it was verboten? Why are you so against solo activities?
What trades people? You hire them. What players can you hire? Are you willing to be a tradesperson? This is a starport in a game.
I'm against group activities being simplified down to the point that an individual sneezing at it can complete it.
Not against solo activities but you have to look at the game DB wanted Elite to be a cooperative experience.
Stop being so sensible and realistic about things.
Anyone can sell the stuff direct to the colony ship in the system... but if you want to markup specific items to incentivise them, you need an FC for that, then do the delivery yourself.
Sorry, I forgot we're meant to be dropping colonies like they're G5's from HGEs.
