Trading routes balance

[looqas]

As the latest discussion rages along with house trading vs outer worlds trading I think it's time to make a thread about it specifically and let the discussion spill over to the other topics.

Personally I think the current system has too many downsides compared to upsides. The current system is almost mathematically distance = profit based. It's not demand based or specialized in the sense although it seems so, like Kusari paying for Diamonds etc.

At this has lead to a peculiar phenomenon where people are just using jumphole routes that are in RP, but less hassle the traditional trade lane trading.

I remember Jinx has been saying this for who knows how long, that traders leads to pirates leads to lawfuls. A simple fact.

And I think over 90% of the traders are indies, be that powertraders etc. Dashiell put it very nicely somewhere (that concerned this trading thing too). You can't change the fact so lets put them to good use.

And that's EXACTLY what I'm aiming at.

I suggest we put the best profit routes between houses' capital planets. Personally I don't want to see the other routes nerfed to death, but putting the profits to 200 c/s between house capitals would nicely compensate the hassle coming with it and encourage the house trading. While putting the best buy/sell prices in the capital is not really strict PR, but I think the compromise is in the order. In most of the houses the capital system is the key system where all the roads lead to. The vanilla was designed so.

The current system we have provides good/decent profits for all parties. The reason why it's gone all organ deut or slaves cardi "smuggling" is the above mentioned hassle involving docking the lanes etc.

So discuss.

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