LTD Perfect Storm having no effect

Dommarraa · Jul 3, 2020

We have just had a perfect LTD Storm in one of our systems leading to hundreds of FC dumping LTD on the market (Investment + Civil Liberty + Public Holiday = 1,597,439 ct/t). Similarly Tritium.
The system is not large (2.5M Pop) so was rather surprised that the effect on Inf was a measly +0.3%

We didnt have one of these pre FC, so I cant compare, but what is stopping the Trade Bucket having any effect ?

kail · Jul 3, 2020

I remember FDev saying in a stream that the FC's will not impact the BGS. Since it's BGS, they didn't expand on that and I've personally not seen it stated anywhere.

SlothOfDoom · Jul 3, 2020

kail said:
I remember FDev saying in a stream that the FC's will not impact the BGS. Since it's BGS, they didn't expand on that and I've personally not seen it stated anywhere.

They said that, but it isn't 100% true. Bounties and combat bonds, at the very least, still count towards the faction they were issued by even when handed in to a carrier.

goemon · Jul 3, 2020

kail said:
I remember FDev saying in a stream that the FC's will not impact the BGS. Since it's BGS, they didn't expand on that and I've personally not seen it stated anywhere.

it's not really about the FC. as a system being listed as having the highest LTD prices will also draw many non fc commanders to sell.

my assumption would be: too many fines and crimes eating up the gains from the trade buckets.

Ian Doncaster · Jul 3, 2020

Mining doesn't seem to have the same effect on influence as bulk trade.

Dommarraa · Jul 3, 2020

Ian Doncaster said:
Mining doesn't seem to have the same effect on influence as bulk trade.

Yes, but lots of the trade will have been 'fenced' through a FC, so isn't really mined any more than gold would be.
GAH. The list of tests that need doing is longer than is fun.

Dommarraa · Jul 3, 2020

Inara

goemon said:
my assumption would be: too many fines and crimes eating up the gains from the trade buckets.

Inara say 15k ships and 1 attempted murder. It's only a snapshot, but no reason to think it's not a representative snapshot

Ian Doncaster · Jul 3, 2020

Dommarraa said:
Yes, but lots of the trade will have been 'fenced' through a FC, so isn't really mined any more than gold would be.
GAH. The list of tests that need doing is longer than is fun.

True, though I don't think the BGS profit difference depends on the "mined" flag that CGs used, or dump-rescoop would have been an extremely easy way to get super-profits from trading gems long before carriers.