Trading - Brainstorming Changes

[Unseelie]

Biggest real insurmountable problem I can think of is that trading is about moving, and roleplay is essentially about staying still. I like stopping and chatting when I'm on my trader, but when that happens, I'm no longer actually trading. And I can't really roleplay with someone as I'm churning through a new Omega every couple of minutes. Sure private chat works, but half the point of roleplay is the performance of it. This is what pulls traders out of the lawful/unlawful roleplay system, which they both get to have fun with.

Ergo: In house and insystem routes.

For example: Leeds buys diamonds...from somewhere else. Produces mining machinery, which is shipped to Dublin, Graves and Hood and arranmore. Graves sells Gold, and newcastle buys the gold, selling super alloy, which is wanted at Kensington shipping platform, which sells Hfuel, which is needed at LD14, which sells Mox, which can be sold to the Norfolk in Cambridge, which is near Planet Camb, which sells food rations, which are wanted on Leeds. That's a long route, easily half an hour to complete, but about half of the time, you're floating through Leeds System, and can, hopefully, integrate yourself into the RP there.

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