Charging for Hubspace

Perhaps storage capacity at a trade hub should be related to a player's city storage capacity in some way. After all the hubs are meant for trade, not hoarding. I would support the idea of separate "storage hubs", perhaps run by the same factions running the trade hubs, to accommodate the hoarders. These storage hubs could then charge a fee based on volume stored; if the fee is not paid then random goods are "confiscated". The game would have to provide the ability to move goods between the two types of hub.

Edited by Llannedd - 11 Aug 2014 at 04:21

Glin wrote: This is just a way to make trade focused players more frustrated with a game that is already out of synch with hub costs vs. blackmarket.  Alliances win in the end, as lager players store for smaller players that cant protect their good- and unaffiliated players have no one to turn to.  Bad idea. It will turn a large silent group out of the game.

not sure i understand any of that. trade-focused players are actually trading goods and trying to maximise turnover, which means that their goods spend little time in the hub relative to the goods belonging to hoarders. storing goods for smaller players may be advantageous in the "protect your own goods" scenario; it does nothing beneficial in my original proposal, but in neither case does it require an allied relationship. and the relationship of the hub trade vs the black market should actually be helped by this, as i would guess most of the black market (by which i assume you mean the unofficial player-to-player trades that pay no transaction tax) are with items stored at a hub. assessing a fee based on storage, assuming transaction-based taxes are reduced appropriately, removes some incentive for avoiding the official trading platforms.

Worst suggestion ever...

There is a more open ended question here, and that is the accumulation of wealth in terms of goods and gold.  Essentially, these just seem to increase, and the only way to reduce stocks is to build things (which produces other things) or lose units in military or diplomatic actions (or if people abandon leaving goods in hubs).  The resources of the world ought to be finite in some way or we will all end up wandering around in silversteel armour, wielding silversteel swords and mounted on crafted horses.  Hopefully, if factions ever go live, this will be part of the solution.

Edited by Dungshoveleux - 10 Aug 2014 at 16:14