Oortstone supply

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@Xaldafax

People have warp conduits and plenty of locations to do this. Plus I don’t see any recent developer comment or posting that says they are in a dangerous server/bandwidth/etc scenario and that the community must help them solve that problem. It is a made up issue right now. I don’t think anyone’s concerns should be dismissed.

I disagree. If this was the case, there would not be a shortage of oort due to everyone trying to open/maintain portals. The issue is very real and not made up at all. I don’t think anyone’s concerns should be dismissed. Do you maintain portals?

@lucadeltodecso

Right now the portal fuel is not efficiently set up, by which I mean efficient for our servers and costs. Right now in the game, it is more expensive to have 1 portal that makes 5 jumps, than it is to have 5 portals each making 1 jump, encouraging chains of portals.

But for “us” it is the opposite and it is much better for our servers if there is a single portal making a big jump than lots of smaller ones (And it is also better for clients in terms of cache and network usage).

So I would be not be surprised if the fuel curve is tweaked to encourage more larger portals and fewer small ones.