Drop the not working trade routes and implement something mimicing BPC in local mode!

xxTheGoDxx

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The hive consence seems to be that the current display of trade routes in the Galaxy Map is unrelieable, buggy and broken. To be honest, I never really used it much but it seems not really fun to me. I instead rely on the known Best Profit Calc by Slopey in local mode (so that only the data that I inputed is available) as well as the Traders Bible. It is IMO more fun the fly to all stations in a system that I visit to get their trade data and use that to optimize my routes instead of just looking at the Galaxy Map after I found someone who sells a commodity cheaper than the average. Additionally, the Traders Bible gives me a rough idea what to bring to a system / station I haven't visited yet.

So my proposal is that FD ditches the trade routes in the Galaxy Map and instead integrates something that mimics Slopey's tool w/o the social sharing aspect and makes the Trading Bible ingame visible.
 

Cmdr Thrudd

Cmdr Thrudd
I'm sure trade improvements will come in time but I do wish they'd hurry up. When I made my trade tool in alpha I only expected it to be useful for alpha or part way through beta before becoming obsolete as the in game tools developed. We do need better tools in game, its a bit silly that we're either writing things down or having to make tools out of game to keep track of trade data. If I was a commander in the elite world the first thing I'd have done is written a tool on my ships computer to remember all this stuff for me. :)
 

pwnieb0y

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Cmdr Thrudd said:
I'm sure trade improvements will come in time but I do wish they'd hurry up. When I made my trade tool in alpha I only expected it to be useful for alpha or part way through beta before becoming obsolete as the in game tools developed. We do need better tools in game, its a bit silly that we're either writing things down or having to make tools out of game to keep track of trade data. If I was a commander in the elite world the first thing I'd have done is written a tool on my ships computer to remember all this stuff for me. :)
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Then Thrudd, you'd have Microsoft $$$ and wouldn't have to trade! I used your tool till shortly after Gamma was released and loved it btw, Thanks.

It's a fine line for FD to walk, using BPC or Thrudds makes the trading extremely easy, I can understand them not wanting to implement that on their own. But the way trading is now, it's closer to trading in the 1850's than the 3300's. Until FD can come up with a solution on their own I don't see why people would stop using them. Other than to see the game on a different level.
 

Nightdragon

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then a few things to balance it, make it so there is a timer ont he trade routs (which I think already is) for the information, make it cost more, 100 is too cheap for information like that.

If anything, why not put the information when you click the stations?

Also can we have it so the smaller priced cargos, you know the ones that cost 10-12, double if not triple the amount to can carry because as it is, looks like that's going to be the NPC bread and butter, and the cargo size you need to even make it worth it is silly.

Also is it just me or does anyone not have a high supply of hydrogen cells because yea... even stations who import it, have a supply of med or high most of the time.
 
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