Trading - Brainstorming Changes

[Wuselkobold]

- 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).

I was giving this idea a few further thoughts while riding home from university.
It would be possible to make to different commodities for each one that exists now (Like there are two MOX items). The first Commodity type would be ment for long-range transportation between the Houses or major Bases/Planets in the Borderworlds, generating much profits over long distances in large transports, but being nearly worthless on all bases but the Shipping/Disributing Bases, so the Transports actually keep going on their long circles around Sirius.
The second Commodity type would make average to good profit between the producing/requesting Bases and the small Freighters could make profits by making much more runs in the same time it takes a big Transport to complete a long-range run.

This would possibly draw many Pirate Gunboats out to the Independend Worlds too, since a Gunboat can't catch a thrusting freighter and the presence of Transports in the Independent/Edge/Borderworlds would increase considerably. More Freighters in House Space would result in Pirates being able to use other Ships as Bombers/VHFs too, a Freighter can be pirated even in a LF or HF, so the variety of used shiptypes in House space would rise as well, and the Police could actually do something in thier LFs.

Any thoughts?

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