Time & the relativity was first an idea of using time/space for communication delay, to give SPACE, I'm all alone & no-one can hear me scream ...for 3 weeks Mainly for the poor explorer who's last message was , "I found Z'ha'dum, need help"
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89863&p=1408057&viewfull=1#post1408057
Enter crowd-sourcing Trading Tools, the real world is instantaneous "I see I OCR ( screen image) I upload ". If you're somewhere else and you see this crowd-sourcing trading information & think YeeHa I'm off to that system , I'll stock up on this commodity , cause they need it. you might be caught short changed.
For this is when Time & the relativity comes into play ,for getting there takes time. Longer than the crowd-sourcing trading information you used to buy your commodity is relevant , It is of course still *relevant to those already in the system and close by, but to those travelling from afar its becomes outdated, it just takes too much time travelling to benefit from THAT market, with whatever commodity you have in the cargo hold.
So you end up having to sell at small loss or just break even.
How to implement this
Crowd-sourcing trading information works on been able to get somewhere fast. An in game formula, that sees what you have in you cargo hold, sees the distance you are travelling , knows from your station logs you don't know that market, cause you have never been to that system, so why do you have a high profit items in you cargo hold, and going to a system that needs it. Therefore works out correctly you must have Crowd-sourced the information & thus changes the prices on you.....
lol.
All worked out while your ship is in the wormhole, for a few minutes or longer ( server load )
* Your in the system and your logs show you have been to the stations you are trading with, so your prices don't change ,until you sell the cargo you have.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89863&p=1408057&viewfull=1#post1408057
Enter crowd-sourcing Trading Tools, the real world is instantaneous "I see I OCR ( screen image) I upload ". If you're somewhere else and you see this crowd-sourcing trading information & think YeeHa I'm off to that system , I'll stock up on this commodity , cause they need it. you might be caught short changed.
For this is when Time & the relativity comes into play ,for getting there takes time. Longer than the crowd-sourcing trading information you used to buy your commodity is relevant , It is of course still *relevant to those already in the system and close by, but to those travelling from afar its becomes outdated, it just takes too much time travelling to benefit from THAT market, with whatever commodity you have in the cargo hold.
So you end up having to sell at small loss or just break even.
How to implement this
Crowd-sourcing trading information works on been able to get somewhere fast. An in game formula, that sees what you have in you cargo hold, sees the distance you are travelling , knows from your station logs you don't know that market, cause you have never been to that system, so why do you have a high profit items in you cargo hold, and going to a system that needs it. Therefore works out correctly you must have Crowd-sourced the information & thus changes the prices on you.....
lol.All worked out while your ship is in the wormhole, for a few minutes or longer ( server load )
* Your in the system and your logs show you have been to the stations you are trading with, so your prices don't change ,until you sell the cargo you have.
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