Trading in .85 - a poll

[Jacob S.]

Question 1 - Do you like the new RP trade routes?
Yes, I think some of them are great RP, especially ALG's, Cryer, and some cool smuggling routes.

Question 2 - What do you think about the cash per hour these routes generate?
For the RP Routes, some of them are a little bit to light in the payouts, I think there should be more incentive to play a RP Corporation over an Indy trader, but at the moment the latter can make a good deal more money.

Question 3 - How do you compare trading in .85 to trading in .84?
Aside from the Glitchy routes in .84, pretty derned good, but in my next answer I'll cover what I think aught to be done to really make a difference.

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?
Yes, I'd like to see all profits hieghtened a good deal, I understand saying this makes me sound like a powertrader, but think about it for a minute: If traders make more money on each run, they will have funding to make more characters, try out new groups and factions on new characters, and enjoy the server alot more than they would Pressing F3, Clicking, Pressing F3, for hour after hour just to fund a new ship. People don't have the option to play factions that they'd like to soley because they don't want to spend a few hours trading just to fund something they may not like in the long run. I'm sure by now some of you are thinking "But Jacob, if we raised the profit on all the routes, sure there might be more people RP'ing and trying out groups, but there would be Capwhores galore! I'd rather have everyone mindlessly pressing F3 than Capspammers!"
My Rebuttal to this, if we make a change that I've been a long proponent of; giving power to factions ordering that any Capital Vessels must be registered with a proper story, anyone that does not follow the registration or is denied and buys a ship anyways is grounds for an immediate placement on the "KOS List" In my opinion, doing this would make gameplay smooth, everyone would get the option to play and tryout whatever group or faction that fancies their hearts desire, and there'd be alot more people doing that than mindlessly pressing F3 all the time.

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