It seems that the return-on-investment for Seekers and Trade Assembly projects is quite low at the moment.

I am certainly glad that the difficulty multiplier was recently fixed on expeditions and that productivity earnings are increased now, however, the investment to initiate currency-generating projects (gold and affinity) seems too steep for what they return once completed (presuming they are successful at all.)

I would hope to see the cost to start such projects reduced substantially or to have the resulting reward at a higher multiplier return (as well as removing the 0% success chance... maybe have it reduced to 40/60/80% return chance, but not 0.)

Cheers.