Trading in .85 - a poll

[Robert.Fitzgerald]

Question 1 - Do you like the new RP trade routes?

I like them a lot. A lot of the once-untouched commodities can actually be traded now for decent profits. More commodities are bought and sold at places which actually make sense - production bases produce goods and require raw resources, outlying stations require supplies, planets and population centres "produce" human cargo.

Question 2 - What do you think about the cash per hour these routes generate?
Question 3 - How do you compare trading in .85 to trading in .84?

The profits made in 4.85 are completely suitable for anyone not expecting to get a battleship in a few days. 150c/s (from FLCompanion) seems to be the normal profit figure for most trade routes, with quite a few being higher than that. High risk cargo has high profits, lower risk cargo has lower profits. A single trade route should give enough money for a player to maintain his combat character's with ammo and other money for a week (unless you really spam nuclear mines or nova torpedoes)

Overall, more commodities sell for a higher price than what they did in 4.84. It is unfair for people to say that trading profits have been significantly reduced if they previously flew bugged routes (Diamond-Niobium springs to mind). Those profit levels were not intended to exist; in this mod version the profit levels have been brought to what they were intended to be. Even with the bugged routes, overall trading in 4.85 gives more profit than trading in 4.84.

Question 4 (post only) - Is there anything not covered by the 3 questions above which you would like to mention, to see changed or improved?

If people feel there needs to be changes to the economy, such as selling prices for a commodity or the creation of new but balanced routes, present evidence and proper reasoning to Xoria. Things can be changed, if the suggestions are logical and will benefit the mod. Suggesting routes with profit figures of diamond-niobium will not fufill that criteria.

To Gloucester: with other planetform players, get together and brainstorm some suggestions to submit.

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