Trading - Brainstorming Changes

[Janus]

Only commenting on some of Eppy's points, others don't worry me so much

EDIT: Quotes fixed now.

Step 3: Spastic Economy. If you're going to make those godawful loop runs, you'd better make DOZENS more of them. If not, just deunify the loops into profitable one-way runs or back-and-forths and make it so that a trader can formulate his own route going in whatever general direction he wants and still make a profit. Eliminate choke points like California.

While I'm not terribly keen on straight back and forwards, I agree there should be more of them. At least then you can pick and chose which one-way you run. After all, how much Gold does Fort Bush need?

As to California, I have a 19 stop route that goes through Cali 6 times. Colorado isn't so bad, you can take two routes from the NY-Colo JG. Cali, as we all know, the pirates just camp the lane out to Mojave.

Step 4: MAKE HUMAN CARGO DIVERSE AND PROFITABLE. Xoria told me he was going to do this, and we get...two...runs? Excusemwa. We need passengers, VIPs, Vacationers, Scientists, and various other LEGAL human commodities specific to each house or parts of each house. We need people going out from legal space to Corsair or Outcast space, all kinds of funky routes going all over the place.

I've tried, and failed, to make a viable refugee route that only involves human cargo. I'd really like to be able to do this.

Step 5: Give House Traders more than one or two viable runs. See Step 3.

Not something I have a problem with as I play an indy and my routes go all over. It cuts profit that way but suits me better. My boy's BMM trader however, has one run. There were two, but he dropped one of them to avoid Cali. Sensibly, in my view.

Step 6: Re-empower independent traders again. Gutting the independent trader ID of its cargo status just generated dozens of Zoner Guard transports and failed to generate significant numbers of Corporate traders. Let's give the Zoner Guard a break.

/signed. I have a Liberty based trader so I know those corp IDs better. Largely they have their own unique benefits, giving the indy access to a 5k trans wouldn't hurt anything in my view.

[quote]Step 7: FLHook bonuses for just about everything. Liners get a big-ass bonus for carrying human cargo, traders with certain IDs get bonuses for carrying cargo affiliated with their faction, etc, etc, list goes on. Little ships, Yacht size and under, get HUGE bonuses for smuggling, which is what they're supposed to be good for. [/qupte]

You'd also get those Whales running Zoner routes.