Hey David.
I’m glad to hear that the economy is going to undergo an overhaul. But I’m going to just state that we need to be careful not to alienate current players and many don’t visit the forum so perhaps @RexXxuS could make an in game server message pointing people to this thread? I think that’s really important. Otherwise you’ll just end up with the vocal minority (ME! 
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Time to explain my voting choices:
Risk Vs Reward
- The easy/medium/hard scale makes sense in my mind. E.G GG is a PVP ‘Hard/Very Hard’ area and therefore should have the highest element of reward. Moreover I believe that PVP planets in general should be more profitable than PVE planets otherwise we risk undermining the ‘pull’ factors that encourage PVP.
Player Time
2. For an average job I’d say either between 100 and 500k or between 500 and 1000K. I imagine this as making something like Combat Steel blocks from refining sathium and iron.
PVE POI
3. I haven’t voted on POIs as I dislike POIs in this game in general. I leave that vote to the more experienced POI hunters.
ORE Sales
4. The selling of ores in BULK should provide a reasonable amount of money in the long run.
Manufacturing
5. In terms of manufacturing I’d let HWS market dictate the prices here, I don’t think someone should be rewarded to heavily for simply putting these resources in a constructor.
Economic Events-BIG YES HERE!
6. Economic events sound like a FANTASTIC idea. This will stimulate the economy and provide an interesting series of dynamic pricing! . For this I vote YES YES YES. I always thought we could also do things like we had a long time ago where one particular type of resource in the OCD (e.g Fuel/Pentaxid) goes BANG (people get some compensation of course) and as a result it makes this resource ultra high value at the beginning of the game. (Whoops! Didn’t realise the poll was public, not meaning to shame anyone here, perhaps the polls can be made private or so only you can see who voted for what? I don’t mind public votes but it tends to make some people uncomfortable).
This happened before when Rexxus wiped Zasc/Erestrum ores and it made them ultra rare and very valuable for the first couple of weeks. So I’m absolutely behind this completely. Let’s DO IT! 
NPC Traders
7. NPC Traders have for a long time been quite broken, and they’ve been getting less and less broken with each improvement which is a good thing. But I’d be careful in ‘nerfing’ them too much, they are very useful but they probably need to have some stricter limits in the sheer amount you can put in each ‘package’.
That said, keep advanced components.
Overall I’m very optimistic david! I’m glad that Rex has you and Hayawen to improve HWS!
People must justify their votes…
I’ll end this post by saying please do also keep an eye on the comments and not just the voting. I think it’s important that people can actually justify their votes so we don’t end up with a HWS Brexit
Also If you ever start looking at the universe structure and individual planets economic use then please let me know. I’d love to start a discussiong for how the HWS Universe structure can help define the economic value of resources.
Best regards and good luck!
Wise.