Hey guys,
I know this will probably come when Industry is implemented but I think it would be nice to have items that made purely for trade purposes. An example would be Mount & Blade where there are things like iron, linen and pottery that you can only sell. Some trade products could be clothing, highly valuable biomass and alloys. This would give more reason to be a merchant or trader type character.
Now here's my idea for manufacturing. While there are certain items that you can only sell, there would also be ones that can be used for manufacturing weapons, trade products and possibly even ships. It would be a crafting system of sorts and would open up all sorts of possibilities. One could become a weapons producer and ship them all over the system, possibly destabilizing it and making it ripe for piracy. This would only be possible with the proper autofactory (an autofactory that makes trade products can not make ships and vice versa) and UAC.
Thanks for reading and please give feedback.