Trading - Brainstorming Changes

[Athenian]

Trading.

The game needs it. The game needs a lot of it.

Trading generates profits. Profits generate pretty much everything else on the server - the first step usually being a bigger trade ships, and then it's bounties, more characters, bigger ships, armour for your cruiser.

It all relies on buy low, sell high.

There's only one problem. Trading is roundly dismissed by many experienced players as "boring", "a grind" or even "tedious enough to make me want to stick forks in my eyes just to alleviate the boredom".

So the question is - how can we make trading more enjoyable?

Now, I should point out that this thread is not about how to play Disco in windowed mode so you can <strike>indulge your taste in animal porn</strike> watch films while your ship chugs along. Nor is it about boosting the profits for every commodity so that a run from Station a to Station b yields 500 million in ten minutes.

I'm talking about how the game could be altered in such a way as to actually make the buying and selling of commodities something that people would choose to do when they logged on.

One other thing - could trading be changed in such a way as to make it as attractive an option to fly a 600 cargo freighter as a 5000 cargo advanced train? These smaller trade ships need more love. Could we change the mod so as to make these ships not just be a convenient intermediate purchase on your way to a super freighter?

Imagine you could alter the mod significantly to achieve your suggestion. Now think hard, and respond please.

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