Way to restrictive. The whole portal situation should be completely reworked.
What I think what the devs wantet:
Difficult to travel between planets, only sparse portals should be available. Warping should be luxury.
Finding a portal should be something special (hence why they are visible on the compass)
Independent market on planets, on a coal planet fuel should be cheaper, on a lush planet beans should be cheaper (hence no working trading functionality in the game)
What we actually got:
Travelling is cheap because there are plenty of portal networks.
Finding a portal is irrelevant because we have free recall without a cooldown
There’s a global market because of BUTT, malls and it is easy to move goods from one planet to another because of portal networks and free, cooldown free recalls.
Handing out some free, restricted portals would be a band aid. They would better fix the whole situation.
BUTT should be in the game. Accessible from craftable BUTT stations.
Portals should be expensive to erect but free to maintain, like each and every other thing in Boundless. I have torches that burn for years… TORCHES!
Forcing people into raids is a dumb concept and should be abandoned. Important materials should be obtainable in multiple ways (e.g. additionally farming) and hunts should favor people who tackle difficult fights, not people who form a big raid group.