Just an idealistic thinking of what I wish the current private economy is tho, there is some practicality as i will mention later.
Current status of the private economy:
Quality of life buildings
Luxury products boosting happiness and attract freefolk
Private industry and private mines are the only private assets that generate private income.
Complaints:
Private economy actually lacks a lot of autonomy, as all the qol buildings doesn't generate money, so private economy income mainly originates from worker salary and player investment.
Money owned by population doesn't flow from one zone to another
The trader mechanics isn't very transparent IMO. Often times idk how traders get their items and why the market price changes. For example, idk how the machine prices change when the trader import only 1 machine from non-aligned territory. In addition how does non-aligned territory even produce hightech and machine to trade with?
Idea: add a corporate system like MTH within zones.
The existing corporate is just a story module doesnt actually do much. I feel it has a much higher potential and can be used as a rework of the current private economy.
MTH already exist so maybe it can be changed and adapted onto land.
My envision of this system could be that everyone zone has their own corporation like MTH, also with their own focus and personalities.
Private assets are constructed by these corporate entities, rather than like a petition format done rn, where the entire private population donate their money to build a private asset.
My idea is that all assets the player own should be able to be constructed by these corporations, and the player would be able to sell an asset to those corporation.
Their personality would play a role when deciding what kind of building they would build. An energy provider would construct solar panels and power plants. Industry company would build industry produce machinery and even high tech. etc
If one corporation grow too successful they would be able to buy off another corporate in another zone.
Corporations would be able to trade with each other and etc. They would replace the role of traders right now, and trade with another regime would be done by these corporations
This is how I see the private economy and the traders could merged into one.
The MTH provided a lot of inspiration for this, making me realize how the existing private economy system in the base game could be reworked to be much more alive.
Just a thought tho feel free to post other ideas lol.
