Jumphole Overhaul

[Batavia]

Jump holes aren't shortcuts. Trade lanes are the highways in the systems. Takes way more time moving in between jump holes than trade lanes. Official factions cant promote use of jump holes anyway. Jump holes are the ways for unlawful to move around. So if a particular faction member whether is miner or transport decides to go through a jump hole, hes doing it at his own risk. The time compensation or penalty lies in where the particular jump hole is placed in the map. So this basically increases RP opportunities as well as to improve depth to the economy as faction members are faced with the opportunity variant with risk factor.

Ugh, just stop. That's not how trade works. Traders always, always, always take the less risky option because predictable continuity delivers better, more consistent results than high risk taking. Haulers operate repetitively, doing the same thing over and over again. They don't do risk-reward analysis on the basis of a single trip. Besides, whether a trip has one, three or a thousand alternatively routes is utterly irrelevant because, on average, every trader will consistently take the same route as everyone else because eventually everyone figures out the one most profitable route and abandons all others. Adding, removing and relocation parts of a route just forces everyone to explore different routes, and they'll invariably all start using the same route as everyone else again. Highways and choke points come to exist because every alternative is worse, not because there aren't any other roads.