Hello CMDRs
I've recently bought the game after hearing about the economic warfare of Powerplay. Currently I'm trading with a type 6 within the region of my power. I'm interested in converting the low profit control systems in my powerplay region into high profit control systems via trade. I realize Edmund Mahon has agricultural benefits and a large amount of trade. This has a nice positive effect similar in many trading games of producing a large content population. Conversely Archon Delaine has high amounts of piracy, murder in his region. These actions and benefits have a negative effect on producing a bustling economy since food and medicines don't receive a bonus in this power and are largely avoided. I've read about the background simulation and how to affect change within a system. So my questions are:
1. Can trade transform low profit into high profit control systems to increase CC income?
2. Can trade increase planetary populations and make more productive systems?
3. Can trade decrease a systems income (famine) if taking food/medicines from the system into a different region. Example I buy food from a neighboring power and sell the food to my power. Or I focus on buying food and selling to my power to create a shortage in the target system.
Would it simply be easier to use smuggling to devalue a rival power's economic advantage to degrade the target system into a low profit system?
My primary goal is to increase my power's CC income and raise the value of the system without running fortification packages.
I've recently bought the game after hearing about the economic warfare of Powerplay. Currently I'm trading with a type 6 within the region of my power. I'm interested in converting the low profit control systems in my powerplay region into high profit control systems via trade. I realize Edmund Mahon has agricultural benefits and a large amount of trade. This has a nice positive effect similar in many trading games of producing a large content population. Conversely Archon Delaine has high amounts of piracy, murder in his region. These actions and benefits have a negative effect on producing a bustling economy since food and medicines don't receive a bonus in this power and are largely avoided. I've read about the background simulation and how to affect change within a system. So my questions are:
1. Can trade transform low profit into high profit control systems to increase CC income?
2. Can trade increase planetary populations and make more productive systems?
3. Can trade decrease a systems income (famine) if taking food/medicines from the system into a different region. Example I buy food from a neighboring power and sell the food to my power. Or I focus on buying food and selling to my power to create a shortage in the target system.
Would it simply be easier to use smuggling to devalue a rival power's economic advantage to degrade the target system into a low profit system?
My primary goal is to increase my power's CC income and raise the value of the system without running fortification packages.
