One, Large "CentauDos Space Station": "There is no need" for 20 different ones (Little Upsilon)

Currently, "space" has 20 different Space Stations. This creates a huge cost and logistical burden to not only sell but also find and buy products in space. The amount of transactions, offers, and purchases seems extremely low, and probably doesn't even compare to that of a single country, even the smallest, simplest 'Simcountry' one.

The suggestion is to merge the 20 different Space Stations into one, large Space Station, which would then be able to trade all available products at one location. It could be called "CentauDos Space Station".

With one centre of trade, purchasing or leasing one dock would allow for trade in all space products. Those with leases or owning multiple docks could simply have those docks transferred to the one station.

With one, central Space Station, trading in space would probably increase considerably and would also make the enormous investment of purchasing a dock more worth

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Would love to see this.

I'm sure WC3 is making money from the amount of GC required, but perhaps they will see the light?

Anything to make space station trading more active.

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Merging stations to just a few is a good idea and needed move.

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Do it.

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Current summary of the space market:

[Station] Market	Ships Docked		Docks Owned		Docks Leased		Storage Used		Use%
[Canri] Defensive Industry	0		9		4		6,888,775 units		6.89%
[Carina] Strategic Weapons	0		35		56		26,762,600 units		13.38%
[Cervus] Offensive Aviation	0		19		46		21,142,862 units		21.14%
[Ceti] Industrial Improveme C CorporatePartner (Little Upsilon) All worlds 03 Apr 2012 00:13Link Notes: the above summary does not include docks owned or leased by "Gamemaster", or those who have been recognized as "Gamemasters" (aka Robocop, Andy, Jonni Gil, etc.). "Units" of storage are "space units", and some products may use a very large number of "units" for only one item. For example a missile battery may use 20,000 "units", although it is actually only --1-- item. The total number of items available to trade is much less. Leases that were made from others who already bought a dock, were not "double-counted" as new leases, but only the leases from "Gamemaster"-owned docks. Those who owned docks, and also had leases, however, were counted separately (there were not too many of those, but there were some). There were --0-- Cargo Shuttles (the only current ship available) docked on all 20 of the current stations. Most docks own C Crafty (Fearless Blue) All worlds 05 Apr 2012 18:05Link Well...it was a good idea... T Tom Morgan (Kebir Blue) All worlds 08 Apr 2012 13:46Link It is still a good idea. The GMs obviously thought space would be a hit that everyone would use and therefore the space stations would fill up quickly. Turns out some stations are ghost-towns. T R Rage Fury All worlds 30 Jun 2014 17:49Link Consolidating Space Stations, I agree. However I would recommend at least two if not three should remain. One for Weapons and Ammo and one for everything else. Or One for weapons, one for ammo and one for everything else. E ELCapitano All worlds 30 Jun 2014 18:21Link + 1 S Supreme All worlds 30 Jun 2014 20:03Link + 1 Again B blah Blah All worlds 24 Jul 2014 05:30Link +1 again Sign in to reply