Economy management idea: "Top Two/Top Three" Markets

[kepler68]

Another idea to help with economic management without turning it into a micromanagement sim!

Essentially, only the top two or three markets in a given station are actually live/doing things. If i have an extraction 120%/refinery 120% and then i build a relay station, the 5% Hightech is disregarded unless i start building enough labs that it exceeds 120%.

You could tie this to the port tier. A T1 outpost will always only have the strongest market present, typically the planet's market. A Coriolis or asteroid base will support two markets (Extraction plus one other for the asteroid base), and a T3 can support three unique markets.

I'm not sure how to handle a tie, but if you can get more than three markets to tie and it's not an earthlike world IMO you can get the four-economy station lol. I'd have it so that in the event of a tie, as long as at least one of the markets that are in a tie are considered then all of them get recognized.

 

[Tomsgalaxy]

I have a better idea. Give players an option to choose 1 or 2 economy types for a starport to take in while all others are ignored. Planetary Influence can often have an economy type you don't want.

 

[Plut0nia]

I have a better idea. Give players an option to choose 1 or 2 economy types for a starport to take in while all others are ignored. Planetary Influence can often have an economy type you don't want.

No kidding. Planetary influence can completely overtake a massive infrastructure. If you have three refinery hubs supplying a large surface port, in a non-Boom state that should be producing more than 8 million units of ceramics, semiconductors and copper, but if that world has volcanic activity, then without the architect's permission that port will start a small side business of limited industrial commodities production, and that will consume the entire 8 million ton output of three refinery hubs. A single weak influence overriding three strong links, and nobody asked the commander who commissioned the facility if they're allowed to start industrial production in the first place. They just do it, because someone saw a geysir through their living room window once.