what would be your suggestions?
Hoztones actually solved a much bigger problem. With hotzones there is no drug meta anymore. Why would you craft LSD if you would make way more money with cocaine?
(if you answer "roleplay" - lets not talk about money/hour)
The old system promoted 1 or 2 drugs being sold - those being the ones that required the least amount of work and sold for the most amount. First was cocaine, and when it went close to extinction the meta swap to indica. Why go all the trouble in crafting mid-grade meth is you can buy 1k cocaine for XX pounds, spend time cutting it and sell it for more?
By not having a meta drug, every drug is now worth crafting and this can promote decent RP opportunities for smaller groups.
About the costs:
Is paying the 35k to get information the issue? - Keep in mind, this is what they pay to obtain the information, be thankfull you are not charged more. What if this was open to the public? We would get more money out of the economy, yet wouldnt solve the issue.
Is being taxed the issue? - Even with the old system, the gang controlling the turf could tax you, so this didnt change much
Hotzone is a case of
early bird gets the worm. Make friends, make connections. For sure you and your group aim for eventually become whitelisted I assume? What a great RP opportunity there is for you guys to exchange favors. You can craft for that gang and they can help you out. - I've seen this happening in game.
Quickly about the "old system".
First of all, the "old system" was not working as it was suppose to. It was over calculating stuff and
way too much money was being injected into the economy.
We had players dm'ing us saying "
we are litterally printing money at this point" - yet we let it stay for a while.
Let me give you some peace in saying that, even with the old (and broken) system making way too much money, we are currently around 70 to 75% of those values - which I would say is pretty impressive considering how broken it was before.
Something that I honestly wasn't expecting, but it seems people missed it.
When before the message would says "sold ... for 200(600)" now it says "sold ... for 800" - It is the same number, just added together.
