Here is my opinion on what i think
-less mobs CND needs miners and hunters and the domes have already changed so much that this request has already been fully covered.
-less taxes: How would you make money if yo had a landarea and the taxes were to low. 5% is the average tax you pay either on CND or on LA's on amathera. Dont forget that the landowners have to also feed animals and make sure th spawn is up to date as well, just like the fact you wanna global or HoF on mining and hunting. Don't foret either that most ppl who own big assets ingame don't have a rl job but are fully independent by what they make ingame. where others have a rl game and deposit just cuz they wanna have some fun.
-cheaper flights: Flights aleady are pretty cheap, the average pilot asks 20 ped for CND, when i started i remember paying even 30-35 peds. (although i do agree it's hard to get a pilot sometimes when u need one but this fact has already been discussed in many other threads so i won't start in this thread)
-Normal auction: auction is normal, what u put up at CND, ppl can buy at CND. If ytou import something from outside your own country you have to pay a transport fee too so its obvious that the same works for CND.
-Fully active shopping area: The shopping area would be more active if ppl didnt buy all their stuff on auction, and would take their time walking throuhg the shopping mall. But i'm glad that there is a group off ppl who kleeps trying with the shop and actually do good.
In the shopping mall you can buy all kinds of mining stuff hunting gear and other things u might need. So if u want it fully active then make it fully active by shopping there instead off going to auction
-Storage : there is always a posibility to buy an apt. up at CND, you already have a small size for about 700 peds (if im up to date)
and a guaranteed ATH would be nice too (i take that as a thrown in disclamer where ATH's can be found everywhere inside entropia, you just have to be the lucky person to run into it!!!!)
Well, the mobs have been set for the miners and from ND's standpoint I understand that but then I don't hunt there anymore because of it. Last soc hunt up there was terrible as no mobs to find so we won't do it again unless maybe for Desps.
Sorry hun, dunno how they 'average' numbers in Holland but 5% tax is about the max tax I've seen. I'm not disagreeing with the amount he has it set at. It's his place, his setting but it's not a 5% average for LA's. Many of the LA's on Amethera are less than 5%.
Auction - there currently isn't enough ppl living on CND to make using the auction there very viable. The transport fees make it almost impossible to rely on and only eats up a persons profit for no real reason.. IMHO.
Shopping - well, mine would be open if there were customers.
I had thousands of peds of items and tried to target the ppl living there as customers. Others made shops full of mining stuff including tons of amps but then the re-sellers in the control room screwed them as ppl would pay a few peds more instead of having to run to a shop that might/ might not have the amp they want.
The biggest problems are how far it is to get to the shops and how confusing it is. The other malls have an internal teleporter to the floors, the CND Mall should at least have this feature. They should be placed at the 4 open areas at the shop level. Also note that when I was up there a lot of ppl didn't even know the mall existed as there NO teleport that says mall.. just North Teleporter or whatever it's called. It sucks to have to run for forever to find a shop then get weighed down if you buy something to get back to a crafting terminal for example. These have always been the biggest problems with the shops there and I'd always hoped and expected something to be done. Like I wrote to ND a long long time ago..
the Mall on CND is one of the worst designed 3d spaces I've ever been in and I still stick to that.
Storage, well, there was a time that my shop was full even with a ton of boxes and I had to buy an apartment for the overflow. Almost all was loots from CND. For the ppl without it, well they are:
Stuck trying to find a flight down to put in an auction where there's a lot of customers.
Stuck having to run even slower from the weight.
Stuck having to sell to the re-sellers in the control room at a lower price if they do want to lighten up.
The only way around the above is to shell out peds for an apartment. Then they still have to deal with the hassle of a flight down and usually have to pay extra to get a pilot to fly with less than 4 ppl.
In my mind, CND is a place to mine and ppl usually do well. ND is very wise to have it set up as it is given the overall current situation. I'm not much of a miner though so don't have much of a reason to go up right now.