Embargoes

[Jinx]

but also take into account...

traderoutes are balanced with profit / travel time in mind, as well as how complicated they are in terms of tradelanes, mines, pirates.

so - lets just say, every house has 1 very profitable that involves at least one system / planet / station of this house - and 1 profitable run. - so - in a perfect world - all houses have the same amount of good traderoutes... henceforth, every house enjoys the same amount of traders / travel, mostly depending on the RP of the traders and the pirates.


but suddenly - due to RP ... one house denies the transport of a commodity - which suddenly turns down one very profitable run for a house. - the result is that this house becomes at the very least... less frequented up to dead.

its a fragile balance. - its not like every player suddenly thinks "gosh, thats a great RP opportunity to play a blockade runner or a smuggler" - no, reality shows that the vast majority of traders don t want trouble, nither in RP terms - nor when it comes to an overcomplicated traderun. ( like flying 30k above the ecliptic ).

so - an embargo can disturb this balance of trading.

in the past, it was quite often asked to consider diamonds / niobium to be contraband. - while the reason for that was written in RP, i personally strongly suggest that the real reason was to cut the "bad, bad powertrading". ( hence, on ooc reason )

if that route vanished from kusari - ( which in its "bad" form doesn t really involve very much of kusari anyway ) - whats left? - sure there are routes left that are mildly profitable - but other houses offer better stuff.

and then we wonder why ppl gather up in ... like liberty. which also leads to an increase of pirates, which also leads to an increase of lawfuls - which causes systems with 100+ people.



embargos can work

- when they are no spontanous things born from the minds of a random faction - but taken into consideration long before in the process making traderunbalances. - when the balance of the trade already knows that there is an embargo - it works

when the embargo is installed on top of a balanced system, it can fail.

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