Trading - Brainstorming Changes

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Just browsing over the suggestions so far and there are some good ones emerging. Indexing commodity cost to ID is one thing that could be developed - place very lucrative cargo in guard systems available only if you have full rep (e.g. GMG H Fuel in GMG Guard system -purchasable only if you have full rep but with a discount on top of that if you have GMG ID).

That wouldn't be very helpful to those corporations that don't have a guard system though.

I'm personally quite happy with trading. Being in a convoy adds alot of fun to it, that is of course if the entire convoy can hold for each other. *glares at certain people*

A buff to the profits wouldn't be too bad, for instance a 500 unit freighter would make as much as a 1000 unit (transport?). To those that say that this would increase the capital problem, I say HA!
The "nerf" that trading got in this version of the mod has in no way decreased the capital ship number, it has how ever increased the amount of time that so called "loltraders" are on, therefore increasing the aggravation that pirates/lawfuls/RP traders receive from said "loltraders".

A lot more routes would be a decent idea, with the embargos in place the routes are already limited for corporation traders. I know of several decent loop trade routes, how ever when you add the blockade running then those routes fall down to a pitiful number.

I'd also with increasing freighter speeds.

P.S: Any numbers on the "buff the profits" idea are placeholders to get the idea across.

Edit:
P.P.S: This idea is directly related to pirating but since I think getting pirated makes the general trading experience better I'll add it here anyway.

If it is possible to make a plugin for this, then allow pirates to sell commodities they've stolen from traders on their bases for a decent profit.

Example: I'm sitting around merrily minding my on busy on my Outcast Pirate Transport (Read: Waiting for some trader to come along) when out of the blue comes a trader carrying a commodity that the Outcast's are in need of. So, instead of taking credits of the trader, I ask him nicely for some of his cargo and then once I've got it I take it to Ruiz/Cali/Malta/What ever other Outcast base and sell it there. I then make a decent profit from it, say two million (which would've been around the amount I'd have pirated for such a luctrative commodity.