Port production and Crafting

[John Paul]

Really enjoying the game; just putting that out there.  However, there is a developing issue with the economy in so far as the port production is causing a significant bottleneck to ship production.

 

Explanation:

 

Port A produces X amount of resources that are critical to ship production.  The amount of a particular resource being produced is insignificant in terms of wholesale port prices in relation to player wealth e.g. one player would not find it difficult to purchase all of a particular resource from several ports.  In practical terms, the resources "bypass" the shop and fulfill the player contract.

 

The only counter to this problem is to contract at a higher buy price.  Unfortunately, you can only have one contract per shop item.  The net result being a pvp meta game on the market which in and of itself wouldn't be so bad except for the way some resources trickle in through production.

 

The game already restricts the amount of crafting a player can do in a given day.  This additional bottleneck will only serve to set up a few players in monopoly positions and (imo) will distort the market by restricting competition.

 

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[Konali89]

It is absolutely true that the current port production cannot meet the player density in most areas. The recent introduction with carriages has made sure that a real run on iron and coal and hemp has begun.

It is frustrating for the solo and casual players that they have less possibilities due to this matter.

However i do not feel that upping the production numbers is the real solution.

 

The real solution in my mind is a long term strategy and that is instead of production by ports, it will be done by players investing in production buildings. Perhaps a 50% player, 50% port situation.

On top of that you can get the additional recources from trader vessels and port battles.

[ironhammer500]

People just need to spread out to the other ports, me and my friends moved and im finding all the resources to build ships really easy with in a 10 minute sail you need to be willing to go out a bit. Problem is people are all around the starter ports which is overwhelmed right now, if people has a bit more incentive to go to the other ports then it wouldnt be so bad.

[Sir Cloudsley-Shovell]

We had this scarcity issue prewipe with Iron and Gold.They were both increased but it seems that now with the larger number of players that they need to do the same again.

[Robaroo]

Know of any guides for collecting resources for crafting? Seems it requires quite a bit of stuff...