We need to overhaul portals and portal fueling

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I had a very extensive thread on Mineable Oort - Mineable or Gathered Oort and have had many long direct conversations with James on this.

Here are the challenges that need to be solved to even consider Oort delivery in a different way:

  1. How will we balance Meteor Oort delivery with any other solution? 1 hour there = x Oort and 1 hour in the new method = same x amount of Oort.
  2. How will we balance the ECONOMY of Oort considering the addition of the new Oort method
  3. How will we handle those users that now will feel the game is a grind because they see this new method as another way they HAVE TO USE to get Oort. (great now I have to hunt meteors and mine for it)
  4. How will you make it available to low level characters where needed on T1 planets.

In the case of mining Oort it was very clear that people in the current community would see it as a grind to find Oort just like it is to find Diamond or some other gems. Plus any mass delivery of Oort results in how to do balance and not crash the economy or other existing things that are working with the current Oort model when you have an influx of Oort.

For “fueling portals” it would go along the same line that I pushed on wanting to use Oort for warps. How do you get it on the lower level planets?

It is great to ask for new things but most of the problems are how to balance it and not:

A) Make those that used the old system MAD because they then “wasted their time” doing it the old way"
B) Make those that liked it the old way MAD because things in the game changed
C) Make those that want things easy MAD because they don’t understand the requirement to have balance and a work/reward and progression game model.

If you can answer those things then maybe you can get change in the game. That is certainly the hardest problem… but once you have that figured out you have to deal with priorities. And I can tell you both of these things (balance and coding priority) is what hurts and slows everything down in the game. I’ve seen it over and over in my conversations - (yesterday it was about easier access to all colors and simplifying GOO that fell apart because of the above challenges).

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