Trading - Brainstorming Changes

[Wuselkobold]

Two ideas to make the use of small freighters more desirable, both far from being perfect:

- Transports are slow and turn like a rock, while Freighters are fast and agile. In my opineon, Transports should be used in long shipping runs, from House to House, using the 'highway' Trade Lanes (For example the Independent worlds, straight forward routes without sharp turns from TL to TL). They should exclusively dock at the distribution bases which avery house has at least one of (Kensington Shipping Platform and Trenton Outpost for example). These bases should provide profitable routes to the other Houses, with many options where to go next, so Transport pilots are not tempted to dock at the main House Planets/Bases.
The small transports could pick up the delivered goods and use the 'coutry roads' to deliver them on the Bases they are needed on, with moderate profit but doing more runs in the same time. The big Transports would keep their freedom to go all across Sirius, making big profits, while the Freighters could be doing distribution work inside the Houses, which would give them much more traffic (wich is much needed in Bretonia, Rheinland and Kusari).

- Smuggeling, like regular trading is only profitable when large Transports are being used, but i think that smuggeling should be done in small ships that don't draw that much attention, are faster and can slip though patrols more easy. What would happen if we remove the Transports from the smuggler ID and raise the profits? Contraband should generate more profit/unit than legal cargo anyway and more small smuggling ships would add a lot of realism and flavour to the game in my opineon.

Now go ahead and beat me with a stick :P

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