Yeah. But is this because the actual effect is small (I suspect this - e.g. they are being cautious till trading can get another balance pass), or that the communication of the effect to the player is poor (e.g. just having a galactic average, rather than a more specific average for the economy type on the commodities screen), or a combo of both?
Well thinking back to the days of playing the original I could make a reasonable living from trading in safe areas but with a better armed ship I quickly became a big drug runner and battled my way through Feudal and Anarchy space to become super rich.
ED has none of this, its why I believe there is much of the conflict over what players do in Open. Why should I trade in Open? Well there isn't much of a reason at all because since ED was released its been a gravy train, and when FD upped the difficulty the masses moaned up a storm.
Make Elite great again by making trading profits in hi security small, and increasing the incentive to go to dangerous places greater, but adding jeopardy for those dodgy runs.. All of this is a QED situ and can't have been lost upon the intelligent minds at FD.. Yet all they do is cater to the munchkins..
You are not a trader, nor and explorer.. You are meant to be an Elite pilot.. The expoits though, they've completely undermined everything..
Nothing is a challenge to me in this game, not making a fortune nor other players, bar a few..
The present PvP playstyle is, imo, is largely because the game is no challenge. Catering to the lowest denominator has made the expreience a trite treadmil.. Fixing that is a challenge to those responsible for design.. Strikes me its more about unit sales and making the muchkins happy than making a better game.
