Sirius under an economic crysis?

[Capt. Henry Morgan]

I think the problem is on two different levels.

First, you have the trade system itself that was nerfed to encourage more varied and extended trading, since the powers that be felt that we needed traders as the bottom of the local food chain. Me, I think that we didn't need to nerf them at all, just mix them up and make a larger variety of profitable ones. We didn't have a problem with an insufficient number of traders in 4.84, we just needed to RP them up a bit.

Second, the ship prices were increased to keep people in smaller ships for a longer period to increase the variety of ships seen throughout the server. The prices of Capital ships were also increased to make them more difficult to get a hold of.

What I think's happened is that the trade route group wasn't talking to the ship pricing group, and we ended up with lower profits and increased prices. In 4.84, I usualy had about 100-200 mil lying around from casual trading, which was more than enough to fund my characters and make whatever new ones I wanted. I had to work for it a bit if I wanted a cap, but it wasn't too bad. Now, in 4.85, I've barely got enough credits sitting around to keep my ships alive, and even raising the credits to set up a new bomber, let alone a cap, is a chore and a half.

Something really needs to change, I think. I don't like to grind for hours on end, as I find trading rather dull if done too long.

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