Do you think that the actual tradesystem is the best?

[marauder]

Mission payouts are huge. But they are balanced with alot of risk for that reward.

Trading is only balanced with the reward when player pirates attack/pirate the trader. If theres no player pirates, theres no risk and loads of reward. Same goes for smugglers, except it's lawfuls instaed of pirates.

Forget about a dynamic economy, up the risks for traders so they can't just hit 'goto' and let the computer do the flying for a few minutes. I'd rather they have to sit there and sweat alittle whenever a contact enters their scanner range.

How to do so... remove the trader ID, theres plenty of corp IDs for the trading companies, it'll also give the smaller pirate groups some targets to gun for over others.

eg: Xenos ignore liberty ID'd traders and only go after foreign company ID'd traders.

LWB and farmers alliance ignore other traders if theres a synthfood ID'd trader in sight.

Unioners and hessians pirate other traders whilst killing dauman and kruger traders.

Blood dragons pirate foreign company ID'd traders, ignore kishiro traders and KoS samura traders.

GC pirate any and all traders they find.

Mollies ignore traders only if theres BPA or BAF targets to kill.

Rogues try to pirate anything they come across.

Outcasts smuggle, pirating only if their holds are empty and they can be bothered. KoS GMG and IMG ID'd vessels for trespassing.

Corsairs not smuggling or fighting outcasts pirate anything they can stop.

More risk, to balance out the reward.