Trading in .85 - a poll

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

I 'Like' what routes there are. It's nice not to have to do a lot of back-and-forth action anymore (though I have, unfortunately, due to reasons explained below, reverted to one such two-point route). The problem I see with this is that there is no variety, especially in my choice moneymaking scheme, which is legal human cargo (yes, legal in all of Sirius, not just Maltese space:laugh:). We have two routes to do, one of them being the nice, out-of-the-way but boring two-point run which I will not detail because I am SICK AND TIRED of the people on the only loop run pirating the living hell out of everything I do. I'm off the damn tradelanes because of pirate activity so much my time per run is nearly doubled; if I go through the lanes the pirates, because my level is high (which is bull****, you idiots, levels are a game mechanic and completely irrelevant. My level is high because of the old Battleship armor I have mounted, not because I am bursting with credits), tend to demand an inordinate sum of money, such as three, four, or five million credits. That might not be so bad in any other ship, but as a liner you don't make nearly as much as somebody hauling what have you in an Advanced Train. It shows in my profit margins, too - I had my wisdom teeth (all four) out last Tuesday, so up until Friday I was essentially couchbound and took the opportunity to trade ten hours a day (I'm working for a new cap RP). Over the course of four days - about 40 hours of trading - I've only made about 250 million credits, and gotten blown up, defiled, violated, and humiliated by dozens of pirates going through ONE system (and I usually escape, too, that's the worst part). Something's gotta change.

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

I don't know about the other runs, but as far as human cargo goes, JACK IT UP SKY HIGH DEAR GOD PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO THROUGH THIS FOR ANOTHER TWO WEEKS JUST TO BUY A FREAKING USELESS SITTING DREADNOUGHT. I suspect other routes could use a marginal increase, too.

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

It's nice to see looped runs, I'll give it that, but there's no real romanticism in it anymore - I have to say, on the whole I've begun to enjoy it less. Two-point runs have gone the way of the mastodon, and any of the REALLY long loops, like the two-hour monster we used to run in the IND, are gone. There's nothing to discover anymore, there aren't really any secrets left to making more money, and when you plot stuff out on the map it just becomes a big pattern of rough concentric circles.

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?

We need variety and profit in Human Cargo. We need at LEAST one more route, one that doesn't drag players through California (DO NOT FEED THE ROGUES), and we should have more options available for good one-way transports that could be loosely strung together into big, variable super-loops like what we used to have.

Also, there should be more than one place to sell a cargo on a given route. I mean, I wouldn't have such a problem with California if there was a way to go around it and still make money - traders should have more options as to where to dump their cargo and still make a profit (and buy a returnable commodity), even if it isn't as big as they're looking for.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.