More Worker Consumables

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It would be more interesting, but there would also be some drawbacks. I elaborate on them here:

Solo players, market liquidity, and player count vs. tech tree size

It would certainly make for a more realistic economy if companies paid wages to workers instead of paying them in RAT and DW. You would need to add simulated retail shops as agents on the market, which would buy players’ products wholesale in order to sell them to the workers individually. The demand from the retail agents would scale with the planet’s population, so the end result would be consumption of RAT/DW at roughly the same rate as currently. But of course there are pros and cons of thi…

tl;dr: It would be difficult to do this in a way that didn’t make the game more challenging for beginners.