Suggestion: trading

[Busy Miner]

Shouldn't stuff be linear, not exponential?

Regular commodities are linear, high risk/value commodities are not. If profit was linear this would obviously solve itself, but that's not the goal here. The goal is to strongly encourage players to take these more expensive (at base price) commodities a long distance to make the increased profit. This adds to the risk factor - running highly valuable commodities back and forth between two bases three minutes apart is fundamentally not very "risky". Running a 20 minute route with a big payoff is, as getting pirated towards the end would be a very painful experience.

The fact that with distance from the origin point, the price goes up exponentially is why this whole issue even exists. "Solving" it by not having exponential profit rates is not a solution, while the current system (no selling back to producers/resellers) is - even if at first it might be a little unintuitive. On the other hand, it's communicated both through the item's infocard and icon. Paying a little attention when buying or selling expensive items is not that big an ask, I think.

Thanks for the detailed answer!