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A clearer delineation between which villages make which commodities, and how much are created both in village stocks and city/commune stocks when comm quests are done. I think a refinement of what comms they bring to the orgs would be great; some villages make small amounts of comms that make no sense for that village.

More ways to create comms in villages, and more obvious ways to do so. It's easy to make steel from iron/coal in some villages, but not gold/silver/platinum/iron. I still have no idea how to move geomycus between Ptoma and Ixthiaxa like you do in most village quests. The Delport/Stewartsville quest to move hemp farmers is slow and plodding (one at a time per hour, if I remember correctly) as opposed to moving a handful of silk spiders (Angkrag/Dairuchi), or steers between Paavik/Shanthmark, or farmers  between Acknor/Estelbar. 

Ways for an org to invest gold or perhaps spare anomalies to boost comm production in a village, or perhaps not. Most orgs are buried in gold, and have little use for it. Maybe a way to build a new construct in a village you own, which is destroyed when that village revolts but can be empowered in some way to boost production. 

Some comms are easier to generate than others. For example, for a bit of hunting work you can gather an awful lot of gems (just running through the undervault without project eternity nets me around 30). Compare that to fruit, which at the moment is in very hot demand, and the only way to generate it is to move furrikin between Estelbar and Acknor, a maximum of 4 at a time, per hour. Meanwhile, fruit is not only used in many, many cooking designs, it's the main commodity in goldentonic and kiwipunch (and the others but not so demanded), the most popular tonics that can't be traded for (like candies, scarves and buttons) and have to be made. Once bottle of goldentonic costs 50 fruit, which would take an individual many hours of waiting and potentially annoying orgs to move their farmers.

Manse generators did break a lot of things with those individuals that had hundreds of the things but i do feel perhaps having a cap could help address the issue, people could have a small but steady income of comms.

The change to piles and piles of comms being hoarded in shops probably helped with the glut, but now those sources have run out it's becoming obvious there are disparities. Magnagora has very good stockpiles on most things, and they are all available to purchase by our citizens - except my current bane, fruit, which we are so low on we've had to stop releasing stock and just let people buy the tithes as they come in. Upkeep on projects adds up very quickly, it's hefty. Generation generally speaking doesn't seem to cover demand and so we will eventually either across the board be fighting over comm quests individually or have people need to stop crafting. 

Basically to me a goal is for everyone to fairly easily access what they need (comm shops, comm quests) but without returning to the territory of comms selling so cheap people are basically selling their wares for nothing - that is also not a healthy economy, no one really runs a shop for profit unless they have the right trades, but i feel like it would be nice for everyone, even entry level, to be able to be moderately competitive at the least. 

Also if sticky goop could go away so it's just one pool, that'd be great. It's hard to buy nice things for new people with most of my generation being sticky...even if it's good motivation to pick up cooking and pump out candies for people.

I've said my piece on this a number of times before, and I think there will always be some contention with my perspective. I don't really feel like going over it again, but I will raise one point I think is useful/valid.

A lot of us players are hoarders by nature. I've amassed a lot of my own commodities that I largely keep in holding to make sure I always have enough. I sincerely doubt I am alone on this. If the economy is tuned and rebalanced so that no one can ever comfortably hold away a few thousand of each commodity without destroying the market, then imo the market's been poorly designed.

When considering commodity scarcity, it'd be way better to just look at city/commune public holdings than private holdings. This always is a much, much better gauge of the perceived scarcity/value of commodities within that given org than whatever you might learn from peeking into everyone's rift and adding it all together.

Lawrence said:

I can not express my frustration enough with trying to reach someone who is visible and sitting on prime over the span of an hour. Turn your gem on or sit in a manse if you're not actually playing the game.

Cloaking gems are not carte blanche for afking on Prime, either.

Lawrence said:

I can not express my frustration enough with trying to reach someone who is visible and sitting on prime over the span of an hour. Turn your gem on or sit in a manse if you're not actually playing the game.

Could be they just didn't want to respond.

I know this is incredibly lazy of me but I would pay considerable credits for a QoL arti that would automatically upkeep my feedbags and dismiss my beast to stables if it was out/left out.