Do you think that the actual tradesystem is the best?

[badkarmasix]

The Crossfire mod has a dynamic economy. The mod has a launcher which reads the current commodities info from the server each time you open it. I imagine the file updates every time the server resets. As to how the economy works, I can't really say for sure. I assume it has a lot to do with volumes traded for each commodity - the more a commodity is traded, the more it is worth. Not really that "dynamic," but player-driven to be sure. Problem is, any group of players with sufficient trading capacity could put a run on any commodity and thereby manipulate the economy as they saw fit.

A more dynamic ecomony in Freelancer would be rather impossible, I think. You would have to limit the supply of each commodity based on any number of factors - production capacity, resources, availability, etc. Can't really be done in Freelancer. And there are the political effects. In Discovery, certain goods would fetch a very high price in Kusari because of the war (engine components, fuel, etc.).

Anyway, I think the economy in Discovery is quite good. I would like to see some prices changed to reflect the events of the war. I wouldn't mind seeing a few more contraband commodities, or a few more profitable smuggling runs added at least. But that's just because I happen to be a smuggler.

Cheers,
Idaho

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