Trading in .85 - a poll

[Dashiell]

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

yes and no.

running through blockades is fun with my smuggler, and it pays, well, not much but decent.

but for corparate traders, Boewx in my case, it`s gotten worse.
all trade routes to kusari are off limits. breaking the liberty/rheinland embargo with a bowex ship strikes me as oorp, so those routes are all off limits. travelling to the edgeworlds is alo impossible.

very little fun routes remain then.

Question 2 - What do you think about the cash per hour these routes generate?

needs a serious boost. I can understand why the profits have been decreased: cap abuse.
people could just powertrade like crazy (sigma 13 anyone?) and buy their lolcap.

but it affects all players. not only cap users. a lot of people see trading as a neccesary evil to fund their characters. they don`t want to trade for over 3 hours just to be able to set up an equipped fighter.

the same apllies for cap armor upgrades. those things are so expensive that with the current trade system, you`ll be trading for ages just to get a decent one.

some people enjoy trading, most just see it as the Freelancer equivelant of grinding: a tedious, boring time consuming nessecity. boost up the profits so people can buy what they want (in due time) without having to grind ages for it.

Question 3 - How do you compare trading in .85 to trading in .84?

it has become more dynamic. and better in rp in some cases. allround the trade-rp has improved, but like I said: the reward for all your time is far below what people would like to get.

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?.

free some corparete trading companies from the embargo. give them more routes to run.

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