Revert Trading Routes

[jammi]

None of the poll options reflect my view. You can give people more sell choices and still focus the routes more than they were in the old system, by giving sell choices along those routes, and changing jh connections to keep players focused on fewer routes.

This is the approach that's being taken in phase 2. An examination of mining field locations and system connectivity to better manage route direction and chokepoints. Multiple sellpoints along the same route aren't desirable though. It's better to have a destination region that traders, smugglers and cargo pirates all need to use to offload.

I think it's really necessary to focus on usual trading now. Ordinary commodities has no chance against ore. There is absolutely no reason to trade 99% of commodity – it will be just a waste of time, because the profit is just ridiculous. Commodity trading looks like a bad joke nowadays.

Ore trading is supposed to be more profitable than commodity trading, because its scarcity is limited by player production, with mining acting as a bedrock for activity across a multitude of factions. Trade ore if you can get it, encourage miners to mine, encourage pirates to seek out their preferred nemesis corporate factions. Perpetuate the activity ecology.

If you can't find ore, trade commodities.

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