Trading in .85 - a poll

[Enko]

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

Yep, highly improved RP routes and I like the way more factions are getting activity due to this. While some corps are still hard to play due to lacking routes *cough*Planetform*cough*, the huge amount of time spent on this can't possibly cover it all. Hopefully there is more to come out of this.

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

Skimming all the replies, I agree with the majority opinion. While this was put in place for good reason, it does hurt the people that actually want to get somewhere with proper roleplaying abilities. All good intentions aside, it hurts people that have real headaches with trading and simply do not have the time.

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

Summed up with the poll vote, it's improved for RP reasons but gone a bit downhill due to various reasons stated. Cargo piracy has improved a lot, getting lucky makes you a TON of cash, it also adds more risk as people are less inclined to simply die due to the cargo being worth less than the demand. A problem that does arise with this however is piracy charges increased due to the value of the cargo which not only further decreases profits on the route but can end up in wrecking it entirely. A good run can easily be wrecked now by two separate piracy incidents along the route, which in long legs of trade routes can easily occur. I also don't particularly like the way that a lot of good routes involve having to break embargos, especially on how easy it is to do so. Speaking as playing authorities in Bretonia, it's almost impossible to enforce the Kusari Embargo aside from the ones that prance right into you.

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?

Only thing I can mention here is killing off the Zoner spam. Corps get a hard enough time as it is without Zoners being able to outclass them at everything. I'd vote for some form of restriction, like the Guard ID not allowed to go into house space. This way regular Zoner IDs can still do it, but with the 3.8k cargo restriction, making it less desirable to spam.

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