Episode 14 Trade Changes

[Xoria]

Wait am I wrong, or there are now 4 different synth weed commodities??!!

I guess you are getting that from the simulation I posted. You're a little confused, but there's no reason for you not to be confused without an explanation about it.

In a case like MOX, there have to be 2 actually separate commodities in the game in order to balance routes that cross over each other from two production locations that are so far apart (LD-14 and Dortmund). For Ship Hull Panels, there's basically nothing consuming them in the Taus that is important, so Stokes and Kyushu can both produce the same commodity and split the routes about halfway between them. Same thing for Engine Components.

For Synthetic Marijuana, there are several localized markets for the same commodity, similar to Hull Panels. So in the simulation I represent that by several commodities, because the consumer markets are different. You'll see that almost all the commodities are duplicated in Sirius and Gallia in the simulation because of this. Almost none of them are actually separate commodities in the game, however.

So the markets are separate, but the commodities are almost always technically the same. I think MOX and Passengers are the only actual duplicates. The simulation functions to demonstrate the markets, so there are multiple commodity entries with their market origins in ( ).

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