Trading - Brainstorming Changes

[Robert.Fitzgerald]

My suggestions would be to use FLhook to regulate prices depending on your ID.

House Corporates would get +20% to the sell price and -20% to the buy price of appropriate items (items they'd haul on their bases). They would get -20% / +20% to the sell/buy prices on inappropriate bases (zoner routes).

Zoners and Zoner Guards would get +20% / -20% to the sell/buy prices of appropriate items (commodities that they would haul to their freeports and stations). They would get -20% / +20% to the sell/buy prices on inappropriate bases (house corporate routes).

Freelancers would buy and sell anywhere for 100% of the price - they would have the true flexibility, however having a smaller cargo hold.

(the numbers can be changed, just the idea that the prices are different depending on your ID).

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Freighters should get a bigger powercore so they can fire for longer (more useful for piracy and fighting off pirates) and perhaps a shorter cruise speed / higher impulse speed.

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I love trading, and I trade for fun and RP. The money is just a side bonus - I don't mind getting 25-30m per hour, that is perfectly fine for me. Currently these trade routes easily get me some roleplay interactions, and enough money to arm all my characters for a week. Just from one hour of trading - and I have over 5 accounts of characters. I don't expect to be able to afford a fully equipped cruiser in a few hours trading. I don't expect to be able to buy a battleship after one day of power trading - are you really roleplaying much during that day-period? If you aren't willing to put in the effort to roleplay while trading towards a ship, faction request, system, etc, do you really deserve them? Personally, I think "No".

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