Hyperinflation.

[Unseelie]

Trent had a Dromedary. 500 cargo. Deal of a lifetime, yes. Also, it took him 2 weeks to get back from the sigmas to NY.

If I could make that sort of profit in my train, with 5000 cargo, it would be a 10 million payoff(which, actually, I do get, on occasion, after crossing the whole of sirius, or moving goods that risk 24 million if I die).

Point is, right now, traders earn just about the same profits per unit as Trent did, just sped up, because, oh...lets guess: We cant spend weeks on one trade run. How to compensate? RP. Every mod release is an advance of one year. This means, nominally, that time in the game isn't connected to realtime. When mods were released every couple of months, this worked better, yes. But if you consider the amount of time a trader is during a mod, and consider that their entire year...the system works.

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