30% MARKET FEE?!?! WHAT KIND OF GALACTIC SCAM EXCHANGE IS THIS?!"Here's another look at a feature that's currently in early development in the internal @StellarisGame build. For details, you'll have to wait until feature dev diaries return."
https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1017345674394955776
While I do somewhat agree, you can ask generate conflict by making resource scarcity more of a thing and also make the things strategic resources do much more important.
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I invite you to suggest a plausible meaning behind the visible neutronium, zro, dark matter, and enegos symbols in the marketplace that doesn't increase their fungiblity.
Well, sure, if you add a very good change on top of a bad change then you end up with an aggregate good change, but the bad part is still bad and we'd still all be better off if they didn't do the bad part.
Even if there are assumption the point still stand, at least from my PoV. You hardly have any reasons to start a war. Stabilize your borders, prevent other Empires from ganging on you and amassing resources for incoming crisis is basically everything. Even in early game, peaceful expansion is so much cheaper than aggression. I understand that it was done to fix early aggression that was a meta in older versions, but, IMO they went overboard. They need an early phase of wars, before claims system, that allow easier system swapping (but with limitations to avoid original problem).
It looks like there is a limited amount of resources on the market, so if nobody is selling then you can't buy. Unlike the old trade station which had infinite resources to buy or sell.
He's not assuming anything. This exact system is present in Endless Space 2 and all it does is that it makes luxury resource deposits worthless, since you can straight up buy them off the market, while in terms of strategic resources you just focus on the last two (Quadrinix and Orichalcix to be precise) and simply ignore the rest since again, you can simply buy them from the market. And if your race has bonus to money production, you can ignore resource deposits completely and get everything just from the market.
Here's hoping we get a complete rework of Strategic Resources that is more akin to, for example, Gal Civs 3 resource system where you actively produce small amounts of strategic resources (like you would produce Minerals) and those can then be used for special ship modules, buildings or be traded away. Would also align really well with a future trade & diplomacy update.
"Here's another look at a feature that's currently in early development in the internal @StellarisGame build. For details, you'll have to wait until feature dev diaries return."
https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1017345674394955776
The assumptions are that these market resources come from nowhere (as opposed to needing to be sold by some other empire to become available), that strategic resources work the same way they do now (i.e. having just one gives you an empire-wide bonus), that those icons directly map to existing resources and aren't simply being used as placeholders (there's only one of each category- one gas, one crystal, one ore, etc), that all assets remain totally interchangeable (which a switch to raw vs. refined materials would likely run counter to), etc...
You are assuming that these resources will always be available and in abundance. Owning a deposit gives you stable flow of that resource, while market can dry out for various reasons in most unexpected moment.
No, i wasn't guessing about future implementation, just commenting that in current version, IMO, we do have a problem with not having enough reasons to go for wars and almost no long standing plans. And i hope that their new mechanics won't make things worse.
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"Here's another look at a feature that's currently in early development in the internal @StellarisGame build. For details, you'll have to wait until feature dev diaries return."
https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1017345674394955776
The problem was more that the exchange rate was fixed.
I haven't been in the office for a while, so I have no idea how it is supposed to work either, but if you look at ES2 you also have all ressources in the trade screen - with the actual available quantity for purchase is equal to what was actually sold by another empire in the past.
That sounds amazing, I really hope it turns out like that. So far this looks like the kind of trade system I always wanted from Victoria 2: dynamic, based on supply and demand, yet actually intuitive to use. If this alongside the pop and planet mechanics live up to their potential, looks like this could be an even better update than Cherryh/Apocalypse.
