Trading in .85 - a poll

[Xoria]

I guess it's useless pointing out that about 75% of commodities have higher profit margins than in 4.84, and that those profit margins are spread out among multiple destinations in different Houses. Take a look at diamonds. It used to be that there was basically only two places to transport diamonds to. Now you can profitably transport diamonds to three Houses, and multiple bases in those Houses. I've been trading and trading and trading, and not only are these trade circuits easier to create than ever before, it's also much easier to switch which route I'm doing than ever before. Big hint : mining machinery and robotic components are the key to switching between one trade circuit and another circuit. I can easily trade for hours on end without doing the same route twice, and without sacrificing profits to do it. So overall profits from trade routes are not going to change. I literally didn't play this game for a single hour for over 6 months in order to spend every single minute of my free time on the commodity coding, and I am not going to spend another 200 hours of my time redoing them. It doesn't matter how many polls, threads or posts demand it, I'm not going to do it all over again.

If you want your credits to have more value, the most inefficient method of accomplishing that is changing commodity prices anyway. Instead, change the prices of what you spend the credits on. Lobby for cheaper equipment, guns, ammo, and ships. It's far, far easier to change the prices of those than changing 3000 to 4000 lines of commodity code, and the end result is the same : you don't have to trade as long to buy what you want to buy.

Besides, if profits go up, then so will pirate demands, and you're back to where you started at. Changing equipment prices has no effect on pirate demands, is much easier to implement, and requires only a fraction of the time to encode and balance.

So if you want a credit to be worth more, then argue for the things you spend it on to cost less, because that is the only way the economic system is going to be changed. And you can bet your last credit on that.

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