To gain access to Hera Tani, I'm looking at trucking 50t of Kamitra Cigars, 8t at a time, for 7 round-trip deliveries across +100Ly of space. (Whats funny is if we consider that a single cigar weights 10g, 50t works out to 5 million cigars. Not so rare I guess!)
This is not very exciting or particularly challenging to undertake, but it *is* incredibly boring and linear. It strikes me as odd that there is such a vast collection of rare goods available within the Elite universe, and yet such little effort was made to do much of anything interesting with them.
Why not have Liz Ryder 'introduce' you to Hera Tani by giving you an insider tip that Hera likes Kamitra Cigars and Eranin Pearl Whisky/Lavian Brandy and maybe some other rare good. The player can then go about gathering these items in whatever order they like, and upon delivery, this thoughtful gesture grants the access to Hera Tani's engineering abilities. This follows a much more natural and intuitive way of building relationships with people. What is _not_ natural, or healthy at least, is showering someone with tens of metric tonnes of things they like. Thats actually downright creepy.
This is not very exciting or particularly challenging to undertake, but it *is* incredibly boring and linear. It strikes me as odd that there is such a vast collection of rare goods available within the Elite universe, and yet such little effort was made to do much of anything interesting with them.
Why not have Liz Ryder 'introduce' you to Hera Tani by giving you an insider tip that Hera likes Kamitra Cigars and Eranin Pearl Whisky/Lavian Brandy and maybe some other rare good. The player can then go about gathering these items in whatever order they like, and upon delivery, this thoughtful gesture grants the access to Hera Tani's engineering abilities. This follows a much more natural and intuitive way of building relationships with people. What is _not_ natural, or healthy at least, is showering someone with tens of metric tonnes of things they like. Thats actually downright creepy.