Container habitat is supposedly to help new players on learning curve, but currently it fails to do so effectively. I'm pretty sure many players never find many usefulness on container habitat. Their dockscreens also have a bit confusing and redudant. What I suggest is just to have one panel for "Trade Info" layer then can choose any info topics and go straight to donate items proportionally with information value. Also current choosable questions are very few that actually useful, so I propose these following ideas to help container habitat to be more useful.

"Is there anything I need to know?" (Rumor)
Low donation value (10+ credit worth items). Provide basic rumors about anything. Ideas for more rumor topic:
- Trading advices (buying from corporate manufact, selling to corporate enclave, etc).
- What to do with damaged items.
- What to do with useful items (e.g. autons).
- Custom work in Tinkers.
- Other rumor for Ungoverned Territories and Outer Realm.

"Where is Arco Vaughn?"
Need to be removed. It's redudant because why player would want to destroy Arco Vaughn without running Raisu Station mission arc?

"I need better equipment."
Medium-high donation value (700+ credit worth items). Keep this choices because having information about better equipment is really worth.

"Where are the Centauri warlords?"
Need to be changed to: "Is there any enemy station nearby?" to make it more useful and suitable for post-Eridani. Medium-low donation value (100+ credit worth items). Reveal undiscovered enemy station.

"Is there a Korolov station here?"
Medium-low donation value (100+ credit worth items). Maybe need to be removed.

"Where is the Stargate?"
Medium donation value (400+ credit worth items).

(NEW) "How to get access with Black Market?"
Medium-high donation value (700+ credit worth items). They explain how to get Black Market ID and point out a hotel station if it is existed in the system.

(NEW) "Is there a commonwealth/friendly station here?"
Medium-low donation value (100+ credit worth items). Reveal undiscovered friendly station.

Lastly, what I particularly dislike about container habitat is how they storing donation point as global data. Imagine you donated to one habitat in Eridani, then you move to another container habitat in Rigel and they was like: "Hey! I know you! You are the guy who is donating to a habitat in Eridani. I will help you even you never donated to us.". This is makes no sense at all. Like a village in medieval era, they supposedly to be local community that have their own needs and interests. So I did say to remove global donation point data and instead should be reworked as simple trade goods for info.

mraz helmer 10 Sep 2024:

I second this decision, but with a few changes:

"Is there any enemy station nearby?" needs to be fixed to "Are there enemy stations here?".

"Is there a Korolov station here?" should've been kept, because Korolov stations can possibly spawn on the edge of elliptic orbits or at the other star from where the stargate is in binary star systems.