I am just baffled that people would do this.
It is a (horrible) sign of the times I guess.
And it makes me sad and depressed that people have become this way.
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Trade Logging?
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I am just baffled that people would do this.
It is a (horrible) sign of the times I guess.
And it makes me sad and depressed that people have become this way.
Nope I gain about 1minute+
It adds up over time :3
Time is money for a trader. With the time saved I can do an extra run about every hour.
Although, I can see why non-experienced traders would be skeptical of this trade log method.
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WHAT they do may be wrong.
But WHY they do it is the same as any min/max gamer.
Some people are happy only needing to put in 33% of the effort as the mix/max type but still get 80+% of a game's goodies, scenarios, stats, whatever
While others, min/maxers, will put in enormous effort to wring the last 3% out of whatever they are trying to max or achieve
The only answer that makes it sad or not sad (other than whether it is bannable or not) - is whether the person truly enjoys the effort vs. reward.
If they do, then I don't find it sad at all - entertainment is in the eye of the beholder.
If they don't, then yes it is sad.
Well if your time is that precious to you, alrighty then. Save that sixty seconds. I can't see this being too important to anyone but the people actually doing it. It feels sad and lame to some degree but not particularly exploitative except if it were used to avoid some kind of security hassles as was mentioned. Do you appear in the NFZ when you Exit-aport out?
Sorry, I am still a noob in Elite acronyms :/ NFZ?
It may be easier to wrap your mind around CR/ hour rather than just looking at it as '1 min - big whoop'
I don't do this, but if I were to, that 1 min saving per segment on my otherwise usual 8 min run translates into 1.1M extra credits per hour
No Fire Zone.
Depending on what you are using, ship-wise, it can save a large amount of time over a day's/week's worth of trading. A type 9 can probably save around 40-75 seconds depending on the thruster grade, per launch.
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It usually sets me 10km from the station, so no mass lock, as well as being out of the NFZ :^) This way I can instantly jump to the next system with ease.
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Beyond the time saving, the fact that from launch to hyperspace is one of the most likely segments for a pilot to destroy their ship through error, it is much more beneficial than "just the minute"... Tired and trade zombied could equal a 15Mcr loss in an L9 if you stack it on the way out of the station fully loaded with Imp Slaves for example.
Maybe they should eat a snickers :3
That's pretty far out; not in a FAR OUT MAN way but distance-wise. Could easily be abused by wanted criminals looking to exit a weapons-hot station and its security, but IDK how FD would resolve it since it's primarily a mechanism to prevent a horrible horrible death by rematerialization inside the station superstructure after a disconnect or such. Probably not a burning crisis however you slice it though.
I'm not sure the time gained just to exit stations by logging is worth it. Maybe for someone who is starting and doesn't know really well how to fly but otherwise, no. Even if you gain 10 seconds with slow ships it's juste a hassle.
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Hey, if someone doesn't want to make an extra 300k-600k cr/hour (or however much your trade drop gives) i'm not stopping them
Guess I have a new way to spend my minute, and a half now.
Cradle2Grave
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Why would you do that? It takes no time to get out of a station and frankly it provides most of the fun in ED