Quick question about trade..
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Yes, the numbers are pretty much for everybody. The more people trade the same route the faster and harder the numbers and prices are getting worse.
Alltough I'm not sure that the Numbers works 100% correct, but more people trading the same stuff is bad anyway.
Alltough I'm not sure that the Numbers works 100% correct, but more people trading the same stuff is bad anyway.
Yup, this ^^^. Every station has certain amounts of supply & demand, and certain rates of consumption and production. Exceed these and profits drop like rocks. This is the downside (& the great leveller) of trade tools with community data... with no secrets, the best routes never last long. It HAS to be this way though... If markets were static or uncaring of supply we'd all be running the same 2 or 3 most profitable milk runs. As it is now though you're always looking for "the next big score".
That's true, everyone gets his own spawn of rares.
There is plenty more they could do for trading - things like the price of food, any food, rocketing during a famine event; price of weapons & explosives shooting up on the black market during war time; during boom times perhaps the price of certain goods (that relate to the system) should drop in price as they over manufacture in their eagerness to party; etc.
Sadly .. prices are banded and fluctuate between the limits.
I have high hopes for the future for the time when FD remove the safety rails from the prices and unhook them from these bands.
Sadly .. prices are banded and fluctuate between the limits.
I have high hopes for the future for the time when FD remove the safety rails from the prices and unhook them from these bands.
I agree that FD should do more to make it interesting to trade in things other than slaves, high tech goods, and precious metals. Having a group of players engineer a famine and then making a killing trading food sounds like awesome emergent gameplay.
However I think they will need to keep tight clamps on the economy -- it is too easy to get silliness in online game economies otherwise. The goal isn't complete off-the-rails anarchy, the goal is an interesting economic system to play with.
However I think they will need to keep tight clamps on the economy -- it is too easy to get silliness in online game economies otherwise. The goal isn't complete off-the-rails anarchy, the goal is an interesting economic system to play with.
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Agreed with the prior two posts. Hopefully FD makes the trade market more engaging, along with smuggling becoming a real profession with a real black market.
