| Really, its a what if scenario, computer simulation / model on what would happen if jump gates were invented today.
Named, GE and Sony and so forth would start building jump gates. smaller companies might band together to afford it. They would probably go to different systems, to avoid competition but that would depend on desirability of resources which is something that might make things too complicated, at least initially, but could be added in later. This basically means that for the moment, all planets are equal and trading between any 2 would generate the same profit. Obviously in reality, the pure gold planet would be the one they all wanted to get to first. The companies would definitely charge other people for using their gates, though I'd imagine it would be a long while before independent operators would be viable.
In fact the whole commodity, trading, exploring thing isn't what I'm interested in between the fact the you setup a way to travel between 2 points and its going to make you x amount of money. There's already more then enough trading / exploring / space combat games.
What I'm looking at is a really top level, pure strategic view of what would happen. This would be especially interesting in a mmo setting. Would people cooperate to spread throughout the universe, or will they focus on their own personal success. No doubt it would be a constantly changing mix of the 2 and who knows what else. |