It is called "robot cargo".

Would need way way more drawbacks to get me to support your cargo not being left with your corpse.

That explains why I was able to buy almost a whole research tree in one go. I guess it didn't exist until people like me that like to do somethign other than sit on top of their NIC pile come along. I guess when you can pray to gods for gold the definition of work starts to lose some meaning.

This assumes that everybody that missions will use the chips for personal use rather than trading them for NIC. Is the issue that everybody that goes to beta does not skip the chips or that the alpha population is neglible chip producer compared to beta?

If this is so you could nudge the alpha to pay more in chips and less in NIC. That is make it intentionally for alpha to overproduce chips and beta to underproduce them.

Jita need not agree with Rovoc to find the reaction of relinguishing opinion forming on the face of conflicting advice unadvicable.

In general developers should not need to trust what the players are saying but they kinda need to have idea why they are saying what they are saying. That is listening doesn't equate to unconditional submission. Bring your salt and apply it lots to protect yourself from contradictions while still being in touch.

The different missions have different properties on whether doing them collectively makes them easier. Its also hard to evaluate how much faster having only occasionally slower walks because the missions happen to spawn near. Ville's points re good but are not a proof of exhaustion.

Make vulnerable to interference and make posisble to shoot interference probes through teles

Yes that is what I mean, but it is a technical solution to counteract a downside on how it curretnly works. There is no good connect on how it is supposed to work in the game world. You can scour it empty and sudddenly there are 10 artifacts more? I know that if it would be done how arkelogy really works it would be really playable (first everythign is generated and then the arkelogists slowly consume the heap). But like if you tracked down one particular artifact and decided that even if you know where it is it is not possible/economical to extract it (like with oil fields which are too small to pick up) you would like tune your scanner to look for some other kind of signature, wouldn't you? You could also have like tectonic plates movements or something that rerolls all your artifacts. But again the fit is not super in that because artifacts are private the reroll would be private too which would not really make sense. But I guess it would be an acceptable break from reality

Any kind of special charge that costs high nic and can pop but not make collectible artifacts far away?

Somewhat cheapens them. I like the idea that they are generated by events which happen for a steady pace.

Like 1 per month boosted would be more to that line of thinking.

Well I had two ideas.

One would be liquidity freeze. If you had a lot of assets that had not touched for a while some of it would enter "deep storage". The thing with deep storage is that it takes time to retrieve stuff from it. You would still have those thousand T4 heavy mechs but you could only retrieve them at a rate of 1 per hour. In general some sort of "storage speed" that is only relevevant for mid and big corporations migth be needed.

The other would be some kind of redistribution scheme. Take some portion of things sotred in a terminal and distribute it according to some activity criteria. With all parties playing it should amount to no net transfer. I didn't find any good criteria. It could be time spent in terminal, times entered terminal, missions completed in terminal etc. This could however be made so that storing stuff in alpha makes them sweep much while having a beta station that is left for ruin and not claimed by anyone would still store the resources. You could balance loss rate in alpha vs being locked out in beta.

If people never play those goods are already as good as dead.