5.3 - Hotfix 1

[IahimD]

A couple of things to address regarding the Barrier Pass shortcut:

1. When connections/bases/systems change, economy gets re-calculated automatically. With the way the economy formula for HRCs works, it favors longer distances (the sweet spot is about 20-25 minutes of travel time). This means that in general when travel time increases, profits go up. For this specific example of Copper to Gallia, or any other location that would have used the Barrier Pass last month, profit of hauling went up, not down. Worst case, if the haul is too long, you can log off half way through, continue next time, and still have more CSU overall.

I'm genuinely curious: how many people trade Copper in Gallia for CSU (as opposed to: for Pob recipes)? I'm willing to bet that if you make the Coronado - Tau 31 JH stable, less people will complain about this specific change. Over the recent 2 (maybe even 3?) updates, Coronado has been getting the shorter stick: losing the connection to Newcastle, now the trade connection to Taus; getting larger... now the potential trade lanes also got the boot. As someone flying 5kers there... it's less and less enjoyable