Could we add a simple feature to the Local Market? When posting an order/listing, companies could toggle a switch: ‘Local planet residents only’ (defaulting to open for any company).
This would allow the Local Market to serve a more specialized purpose. For example, on SB-838B—a planet I am currently developing—I want to use cheap water to attract other companies to set up bases, so I occasionally list half-price water on the LM. However, outside players who are unaware sometimes buy up these supplies.
With this feature, the Local Market could essentially act as a billboard for the planet. How would you rate this feature? I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts and feedback!
That would be nice for that purpose, yeah! People could always build a base on the planet to take the contracts if they’re good enough, so they can be used as ways to attract settlers - that’s pretty cool!
The edge case I can see is people devoting a permit to getting your cheap water (and not actually producing anything on-planet), but I don’t really see it being profitable? Maybe if you’re posing a lot of water, but you can always blacklist them once you detect the abuse so I think it’s alright.
I’m for it. I’d like to see LMs could benefit from more customizability so people can make creative use of them as an alternative to the main commodity exchange stations.
I like it, another one would be “max x amount per player per week” which would work nicely with dynamic contracts: you put up a add of selling/buying/shipping x amount and every player can take as much as they like, maybe you can even update the cont and post more water when more is available. This would mean that the "contract is too big / too small problem would be gone too.
So the idea would be:
You put up a single add with the amount of water you have to sell, every resident there can take as much as they want (up to the set limit) and you could just “refill” the cont when you have more available (with the limits and their counts still intact).
