Is the virtual economy in for a great depression?
Ah, and speaking of trading.. once thing I would like to request is the ability to trade on the blackmarket (slaves, prostitutes, drugs, weapons, illegal waste, twinkies, etc..), it would make living on the "outskirts" a bit more interesting.
Ah, and speaking of trading.. once thing I would like to request is the ability to trade on the blackmarket (slaves, prostitutes, drugs, weapons, illegal waste, twinkies, etc..), it would make living on the "outskirts" a bit more interesting.
That stuff is planned, at least some of it. Not sure about the prostitution or twinkies....
Just traveled to the outside system where there is usually not mich activity and they are wmpty. Nothing to buy. I wonder if we did this or was it the devs testing if we go crazy.
Now I look at my past and remember all the anacondas that I crashed because the galaxy was so abundant now theres nothing ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Now I look at my past and remember all the anacondas that I crashed because the galaxy was so abundant now theres nothing ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for the input. So the devs testing our sanity? Hope this is to include a possible war and station looting in the future for this kind of circunstances
CMDR DeadPorkins
Banned
I know that something is going on. I got "held up" by a real player gangster tonight for the first time since I've been playing online.
I was in a Lakon 9 with 440 tonnes of agricultural medicines (fertilizer). I was so surprised by the threat as I exited the docking station in Aulin that I tried to run, not even thinking that all I had to do was stay within the No Fire Zone! Either that or open up my arsenal of weapons...
To the pirate's credit, he politely asked me to drop 4 tonnes of my cargo. I should have listened.
My point is, I was so surprised by actually being threatened by another player that I didn't even know how to respond logically. I just panicked. I couldn't even find the buttons I wanted to press in order to communicate and comply before I was shot down.
This was truly one of the most exciting and thrilling moments I've yet had in this game, and even though I got killed and lost my ship along with all its cargo, I thought to myself, "Yes! This is Dangerous! This is Elite!".
I cannot wait until these kinds of scenarios start to become more prevalent in the game. It teaches you when you lose like that. You look back on it and think about what you could have done differently. You come back the next day wiser and more aware.
That's what this game offers. It's your story coinciding with someone else's in totally unpredictable ways. It's absolutely wide open.
But I definitely think that the market is changing every day and hour and people are reacting to it. Even through piracy the economy can be effected. i.e. 440 tonnes of agri medicines are now just floating in space, possibly lost, because of my one encounter.
I was in a Lakon 9 with 440 tonnes of agricultural medicines (fertilizer). I was so surprised by the threat as I exited the docking station in Aulin that I tried to run, not even thinking that all I had to do was stay within the No Fire Zone! Either that or open up my arsenal of weapons...
To the pirate's credit, he politely asked me to drop 4 tonnes of my cargo. I should have listened.
My point is, I was so surprised by actually being threatened by another player that I didn't even know how to respond logically. I just panicked. I couldn't even find the buttons I wanted to press in order to communicate and comply before I was shot down.
This was truly one of the most exciting and thrilling moments I've yet had in this game, and even though I got killed and lost my ship along with all its cargo, I thought to myself, "Yes! This is Dangerous! This is Elite!".
I cannot wait until these kinds of scenarios start to become more prevalent in the game. It teaches you when you lose like that. You look back on it and think about what you could have done differently. You come back the next day wiser and more aware.
That's what this game offers. It's your story coinciding with someone else's in totally unpredictable ways. It's absolutely wide open.
But I definitely think that the market is changing every day and hour and people are reacting to it. Even through piracy the economy can be effected. i.e. 440 tonnes of agri medicines are now just floating in space, possibly lost, because of my one encounter.
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I don't mean to be a hater, but I don't think your experience had anything to do with the failure of the economy. People pirate Aulin all the time when they can. Its just a matter of the luck of the server instance draw.
CMDR DeadPorkins
Banned
That's cool. I'm just relating my personal experience. I honestly haven't been robbed or anything in any system for the 175 hours that I've played the game online. Maybe it's just me. But tonight was the night, for certain. It didn't bother me one bit. I enjoyed it.
I just been to my regular trading ports and find that they are all out of the usual goods
Aulin is out of almost everything medicine and no technology
Is it or am I getting a bug? Anyone else noticed this?
If you carry 100 ton fish per day to a market, will that country want fish again after 1 month?
Logic makes game good.
Only I've been doing that for a month and just yesterday everything system ran out of everything, just weird.
Another thing. The galaxy map trade routs never change at all even though that good is no longer sold at the system it shows at it is been imported. That has to be corrected
The devs are messing around. Don't worry. I am sure things will be back to normal soon.
I guess that depends on how that data is collected. If it's an average over a long period of time then it is still "statistically accurate". Maybe your ship is just drawing these trade routes based on old data.
Devs play with events system, just give you a hint that such cases could happen locally (due of war and another event).
Galaxy map trade routes will always have a delay and there's always be a risk that something will be changed already.