ID-Based Cargo Discounts

[Mickk]

The OP is correct, moving the 'basics of life' (food, air, water) except for specific food items doesn't make you any sort of $$ at all.

The thing is you can actually make a lot of PROFIT from doing it, but to make any sort of real money means having to do it a LOT.

You can pick up oxygen or water for instance on most planets fairly cheap, as low as $5 a unit I think and there are places that will buy it for as much as $100 a unit.

Thats a huge profit, compared to what you pay out, but even with a major trade vessel (4500 cargo) thats only $427500 profit......

Lets imagine that water is pumped into a ship, it would fill every nook and cranny of the hold. Lets say that 1 unit of water = 0.25 cargo, that would make the profit almost decent, close to $2 mill.

Oxygen would be compressed for transport..... work that one out.

Edit: meh just read what I posted, sorry if it doens't make a lot of sense, I'm at work and I'm sorta rushed for time.

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[Tovig]

Let's this thread revive ! It's a very good idea.

[Elsdragon]

YES!!!!!!!

It should be profitable, Please.

I can sell synth paste at almost 1000% increase of value, and the profit still sucks.

Please, make it Decent

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[Cyberanson]

Do it! Do it! Do it!

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[Guest]

Without backreading.... Just a randomly non-developer estimated list:
Since Mining Bonuses are done in FLHook, I would assume this could be done in a similar way.

Having ID/Tag gives 30% Discount/Bonus for
ALG Waste Disposal - Toxic Waste
Ageira - Gate/Lane Parts
BMM - ??? Mined Commodities in their ZOI???
Border World Exports - Military Vehicles, Light Arms (Bretonian In-House Military Support)
Cryer Pharmaceuticals - Pharmaceuticals
Daumann Heavy Construction - ????
Deep Space Engineering - Gate/Lane Parts
EFL Oil & Machinery - Oil
Gallic Metal Service - Cryocubes (Infocard states "self-destruct mechanisms that prevent both the loss of Gallic Metals' most profitable trade secret")
Gas Miners Guild - H-Fuel (Who didnt see that one coming?)
Gateway Shipping - ????
IDF Shipping - ???
Independent Miners Guild - ??? Mined Commodities in their ZOI???
Kishiro Technologies - ????
Kruger Minerals - ??? Mind Commodities in their ZOI???
Orbital Spa and Cruise - Passengers, VIPs, basically all Human Cargo aside from Slaves + Lux Food, Lux Consumer Goods, Consumer Goods,
Planetform, Inc. - Terraforming Gasses and Alien Organisms (as infocard says they are used to speed up Terraforming processes)
Republican Shipping - Military Vehicles, Light Arms (Rheinland In-House Military Support)
Samura Industries - ????
Synth Foods, Inc. - Synth Paste (Again, who didnt see that one coming)
Universal Shipping - Military Vehicles, Light Arms (Liberty In-House Military Support)
Zoners - Pinneal Amulets

Ind. Trader - Generic Commodities, Food Water Oxygen etc
Police Factions - Prisoners and Unlawfuls Pilots of their ZOI

For the various non-trade oriented groups such as:
Bounty Hunters
Lane Hackers
Liberty Navy
BAF
KNF
RM
LR
LWB
Outcast
Corsair
etc

Give them value boosts on the faction they are at war with.
Example: LN would get value boosts on RM Pilots
BAF would get it for KNF pilots
Outcasts, Corsair Pilots
etc

[ProwlerPC]

Gas Miners Guild - H-Fuel (Who didnt see that one coming?)

And Plutonium :)

I saw Dusty's post, it's too bad I really would've like to see this. GMG's RP from Vanilla has always been to hold a monopoly. The ID based pruchasing boosts would have been great to have in-game mechanincs to support GMG's hold on H-fuel and Plutonium.

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[Guest]

As far as Dusty's post is concerned, its considering you can -Simply- change ID and get the needed commodity boost.

However, reread my post and find this:

Having ID/Tag gives 30% Discount/Bonus for

Make it an all or nothing deal.
Examples:

Ageira ID, Non-Ageira Tag: No Bonus
Non-Ageira ID, Ageira Tag: No Bonus

Ageira ID, Ageira Tag: WEeee, Bonuses!
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So, you can change ID all you want, but without that appropriate tag, you get no bonus.

[johnpeter]

That fraking sucks! I've still got my zoner guard ID'd, Untagged whale that the droprep command screwed up, can't do missions/attack depots due to having no guns, and is too friendly with zoners to get bribes, and admins don't fix reps besides phantoms/nomads/terrorists/neutrals/Angels/special roleplay... Don't bother trying to help, I've tried everything.

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[looqas]

This keeps popping up once in a while, but good ideas usually do. I've been waiting for a time to ripe.

The difficult thing of course is to balance it out.

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[Exsiled_one]

Corsairs should get arties, OC should get cardamine. How was that not around?

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