The Economy in 4.85

[me_b_kevin]

The one problem with this is that it might leave traders too vulnerable to interception. What I mean is if one leg of a trade route takes 15 minutes, and (due to the lower number of buying/selling points per commodity) must invariably involve a certain route, then it would be fairly easy for pirates to watch the player list for people beginning that route and then intercept them. Whereas at the moment (for example) diamond runners might be heading through either Honshu or Chugoku, and from either New Berlin JH or Frankfurt, so the trader has at least a 50/50 chance of picking the place where the pirate isn't.

i have a feeling that trader interception won't change much. currently there is one main money making route. pirates can sit in one general area and catch their prey. however, this limits what pirates are able to catch them seeing as the route is far outside the majority of pirates ZOI.

with the new system as i see it, there are going to be a plethora of trade routes all over Sirius now with the proffits of said routes being equalled out. that alone would make tracking them harder i would think seeing as you never know what route they are taking in most case. but on the other hand they'll be more opportunities for new pirate factions to run into them.

so i think it'll probably equal out or at the most there won't be any significant change.

just my opinion and as always it's very possible that i'm wrong.

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