Make trade routes go in loops around Sirius

[Kuraine]

Actually, you can get a very nice price for Artifacts (don't know cardi, outcasts don't like me much) in Texas.

Oh I know, it is where I originally tended to drop off artifacts after PvP was re-enabled in NY. But the junker base isn't somewhere that can really be useful to the LSF/USS/SA either, since its kind of out of the way. Still a good alternative route, though, but doesn't involve the LSF etc as much as it would with price increases on Los Angeles and Denver (both of which are supposed to be high class worlds with considerable wealthy elite and to whom there would be thriving markets for most illegal stuff).

But w/ NY being the top-price-buyer, you're still going to have people going for that extra 200,000cr from a full load.

This is true, to an extent, although I personally (and many others, i'm sure), would rather ship to Denver or LA since both are less risk. And think of it this way as well: the LSF + allies guard the Alaska JG in Zone 21 quite strictly these days and it is a increasingly risky route. An alternative is going through beta - Sigma 19 - Honshu - New Tokyo - Shikoku - Kepler/Galileo - Colorado. And if they can sell for almost as much on manhattan (but still 150 credits or so less), I would mostly prefer to sell there.

This means that I have to run the gauntlet with other pirates and KNF through Kusari, plus forcing the LSF to station more of their numbers guarding throughout Colorado/California (thanks to the route through Ontario that brings you out not far from Los Angeles). The same can be said for running through the Taus, or shipping artifacts through rheinland/omegas/bretonia. I don't know, I imagine the idea will still have a lot of detractors, no matter which way you put it, so i'll leave it up to you:)I hardly ever trade lately anyway.

Obviously this thread is about general trading routes, but I thought I would just throw this out there for discussion as well, since I think it would make a good difference to Disco as a whole (not to mention potentially less people running through/sitting in NY, which is always a good thing).

---

Kuraine (Zoner tagged Trader)
Ravenholm (Zoner tagged Zoner Destroyer)
Bill Mason[Arms.Dealer] (Zoner tagged Arms Dealer)
LR-Drax (Liberty Rogue tagged Cruiser)
LR-Dravis (Liberty Rogue tagged VHF)
[RHA]Wilhelm.Wettin (Red Hessian tagged VHF)
[GC]-Ai.Takeda (Golden Chrysanthemum tagged VHF/Bomber)