Your favorite trade and smuggling run?

[St.Denis]

It seems that a lot of the New Players want everything on a silver platter.

I remember when I first started in 2011. I initially did the Helium runs within Pennsylvania until I could afford a Dromedary (this was under advisement from a friend). I then decided to venture out in to the wide Universe of Sirius. So I took some Helium out with me and visited all the Stations in New York to find out where I could sell the Helium for the best price. Once I had gone to some of the Bases I found that my Trade window told me where any commodity that I bought could be sold for the best price from the Bases I had visited. It was a time of Discovery!

I slowly ventured out in different directions. I learnt after a time that I shouldn't be leaving Rheinland with goods and heading in to Liberty when I was stopped by Warships telling me to drop my cargo. I learnt not to carry Trade Lane Parts when I got stopped because I wasn't carrying the correct ID.

I even got blown up in Kusari because I said that I was heading to Bretonia with my cargo.

I didn't know any better at the time, but it was fun as well as, at times, frustrating.

It all was a learning curve. I enjoyed the thrill of discovering the boundaries of the Game.

FL Companion may be a very good tool, but it is a very ooRP tool. For example, how can a Liberty Trader complain that his Goods sell better in Gallia, where he isn't allowed to Trade, than everywhere else in Sirius. In my opinion finding out the best places to sell commodities and finding good Trade Routes is partly what this Game is about. I still don't use FL Companion to work out my routes but I go out there and find them.

If everything, within this Game, is served on a Silver Platter then a big thrill of the Game, Discovering, is none-existent.

If this Game is just about making lots of money, quickly, so that you can buy big ships and then go, with them, and shoot things, it becomes very stale very quickly.

So I would suggest that giving the Newer Players too much information, 5 minutes after they join, is possibly counter-productive, as a way to keep them to stay, as they will likely become bored and leave.

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