Trading sucks now...

[Baltar]

can i haz that route?

Yes ... please provide this route. We pirates would like to take a look into just ... how "profitable" it really is.

i'm going to correct myself because i really overshot my estimates, one way _does_ take around 20mins. It's completely inRP for some of my characters to scavenge wrecks while doing it, and finding a couple of codes would mean extra 20-30mil in a flash.

Still, even normal trading means that's 30mil right there, and unless you're aiming for a battleship that's perfectly enough. What exactly are you going to do with that 300mil after a week of trading, anyway? If you have played enough to be on good terms with the faction providing the battleship, they'll just give you the money for it.

Anyway I was off big time and apologize, I'll edit my former posts accordingly:)

1. We'll see how inRP it is when pirates set up along that route ... if the traders role play with the pirates ... then we'll consider it RP. If they just go about their business as if it were the Diamond/Niobium Run all over again ... then I'll have to disagree with your position it is inRP.

2. CODIES only sell for about 48k ... that's about all you'll get from an NPC. Now if you plan to sell them for 20-30 mil a piece ... you'll get a bit of ticked off folks like me who would like to find a freaking wreck that's not been looted. All you dolts that live in the "system reset" time zone piss me off to no end. Leave the blasted wrecks for lower ranks to get started and for those that can actually use the stuff.

3. Any and all power-trade routes should be nerfed. Rationale is that too many noobs get a battleship before they've learned to role play with one. Getting a battleship should require actual work. One week of power-trading is not enough to "earn" you the right to fly such a beast.