Idea for future option trade quick or immersive

[Jason S]

In future hopefully we will have the option to walk around stations. Hopefully those stations will have interesting places to visit.

Perhaps an idea is to keep the quick electronic trading screens we have but also the option to initiate a trade by walking to a person and doing a deal that way, so perhaps the person could be in a bar.

But why go to the effort of finding a person when you can just do it on a click on the screen. Perhaps you could get better deals by finding a person, or perhaps they are the only ones that will accept some banned goods.

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What we do not want is to force finding people as that was annoying in X3.

 

[ExRex]

Could be nice if you had to quickly scour an area for shady persons to sell stuff on the black market. Depending on how the person looked you would get different prices for varying commodities, or he might be an undercover cop. This would vary from station to station and system to system so you would have to get to know the specific characteristics of the people there before being able to make an educated guess.

But it is far off and requires a whole new gaming engine that the Cobra engine is not currently made for. Right now I think it's more important to focus on actually fixing the existing content.

 

[Jason S]

Could be nice if you had to quickly scour an area for shady persons to sell stuff on the black market. Depending on how the person looked you would get different prices for varying commodities, or he might be an undercover cop. This would vary from station to station and system to system so you would have to get to know the specific characteristics of the people there before being able to make an educated guess.

But it is far off and requires a whole new gaming engine that the Cobra engine is not currently made for. Right now I think it's more important to focus on actually fixing the existing content.

I like the idea of the undercover cop. The cobra engine, did that do the outsider project ?

 

[INSTG8R]

In future hopefully we will have the option to walk around stations. Hopefully those stations will have interesting places to visit.

Perhaps an idea is to keep the quick electronic trading screens we have but also the option to initiate a trade by walking to a person and doing a deal that way, so perhaps the person could be in a bar.

But why go to the effort of finding a person when you can just do it on a click on the screen. Perhaps you could get better deals by finding a person, or perhaps they are the only ones that will accept some banned goods.



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What we do not want is to force finding people as that was annoying in X3.

X-Rebirth tried the whole "walking on stations" now outside of the fact that game was a total abomination, that aspect was absolutely HORRID. You think you get tired of seeing the inside of the same hanger to land on? Try having to run thru the "same" staions over and over looking for those people.
The first real mod that came out for Rebirth was a module so you didn't have to land on stations and could do all your "shopping" from your ship.

 

[Leo Sagan]

This could be awesome. The only important thing is to make sure it is worth the extra time. For instance, if you need, say, 5 extra minutes on average to make a deal that way, it should yield you at least (preferably slightly more even) as much money as you would make from the market.