Yep, I went solo for trading rare goods

Quineloe · Jan 4, 2015

Robert Maynard said:
It's an assumed connection - the traders could simply be 100 LY away from major population centres effectively playing solo in open. Frontier have the statistics - and they're not telling.

System traffic report is not telling?

Tigga said:
Ah. Eravate. That's probably why. I'd suggest heading toward Sol if you want to find more player traders, especially rare commodities ports. Much better piracy to be had there.

where do you trade in Sol? I've been to Mgorby last night and all they sold was biowaste, like a Tourism world. Completely different from Sol Trading in FE2. And the demand certainly was not high enough to justify 1 way cargo trips.

Also, only 4 billion people in the entire Sol system? Half of what Earth has TODAY?

Robert Maynard · Jan 4, 2015

Quineloe said:
System traffic report is not telling?

Which ships are you assuming to be traders?

Quineloe · Jan 4, 2015

Robert Maynard said:
Which ships are you assuming to be traders?

Type 7 Type 6, Haulers...

Type 6 are fairly common now, yet I Never see any on open play.

Robert Maynard · Jan 4, 2015

Quineloe said:
Type 7 Type 6, Haulers...

Type 6 are fairly common now, yet I Never see any on open play.

Cobras? Asps?

Tigga · Jan 4, 2015

Quineloe said:
where do you trade in Sol? I've been to Mgorby last night and all they sold was biowaste, like a Tourism world. Completely different from Sol Trading in FE2. And the demand certainly was not high enough to justify 1 way cargo trips

I don't. I pirate. There is plenty of movement around the various rare suppliers. They're the main targets. Same as pirating up near Lave.

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Robert Maynard said:
Which ships are you assuming to be traders?

Everything that isn't an eagle or a viper. With cobras and asps, maybe half are trading.

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Quineloe said:
Type 6 are fairly common now, yet I Never see any on open play.

Again, I see plenty...

CMDR Saunders · Jan 4, 2015

Tigga said:
I don't. I pirate. There is plenty of movement around the various rare suppliers. They're the main targets. Same as pirating up near Lave.

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Everything that isn't an eagle or a viper. With cobras and asps, maybe half are trading.

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Again, I see plenty...

Is there a list of these rare suppliers. If eravate is a rookie zone, well, I want to leave and go find these big fish hauling these rare items.

CMDR Saunders · Jan 4, 2015

Robert Maynard said:
.... and now you propose that Frontier remove a game feature that has been part of the stated game design since the beginning of the Kickstarter.

To this I can only say... wasn't offline single player a feature that was part of the stated game design since the beginning of the kickstarter or was that just a promised feature that was stripped out?

Quineloe · Jan 4, 2015

if you steal rare goods somewhere they are, won't this result in you getting almost no money for them unless you fly them 120 LY away, you know.. like a trader?

Robert Maynard said:
Cobras? Asps?

is an Asp with a class 6 shield generator and 6 guns a trader?

Yes, some of them are. No telling how many.

Cosmo Bozo · Jan 4, 2015

Quineloe said:
if you steal rare goods somewhere they are, won't this result in you getting almost no money for them unless you fly them 120 LY away, you know.. like a trader?

Yeah, you might as well steal bauxite unless you are going to fly a long way with it.....