Trading sucks now...

[Dusty Lens]

*points and laughs at Camtheman*

Gracious me how charming.

I came here to respond to Uns, but I couldnt help but get a giggle out of your post.

Uns, forgive me for editing out the fluff.

Explain to me, please, how your corporation supports that enterprise. How, for example, does Synth food feed the world, if most bases buy synth for less than Stuttgart sells it?

Interesting question. Itd be worth to take a look at the charts, which I dont have in front of me. If the synthfood trade market is actually borked itd be something for the bug reports! With detailed suggestions as to remedies naturally.

If you want the majority of the traders to use the long world tour routes, make them worth more, but there should be other routes available

To respond to that paragraph as a whole: While drawing out trade runs Ive observed thats exactly whats been done. Pretty much to the T. Thats all there is to say about that really.

On the topic of RP trade routes, people often espouse the belief that corporations only follow the lanes, or some other nonsense

For the most part thats exactly what they do, as their business is with the fellows sitting on the other end of the tradelane. There are obvious exceptions to that, far flung bases in remote systems, Coronado for example is a great example of a system that contains a destination far removed from the trade network for a Universal or DSE pilot.

But of course that corporate pilot isnt in the business of smuggling on the side, as opposed to the practices commonly employed by most of us.

Personally, the more time I spend working over the trade system looking for runs the more impressed I am with the work that went into it. There's a ton of epic runs that stretch across the houses. Traders are moving through systems that'd be lucky to see a player a week!

A lot of fun all in all.

Oh yeah, of course, to cut through the jibber jabber powertrading is finding the route that pays out the highest returns possible and running it relentlessly regardless of how outside of conceivable reality it might lay.