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Trading routes balance

Unseelie

09-23-2009, 04:36 PM,

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Tradelanes are, paradoxically, more work than cruise. For many of the zoner/edgeworld routes, you can cruise away, and cruise, and cruise. Which is plenty of downtime to do -other- things...which people like. Add to that that tradelanes get taken down by players and NPCs...and things balanced based on constant travel through the lanes, you get, even when the lanes might be 'better' in concept, they're worse, because of the constant stopping, and the implied work.

Tradelanes, as I've always argued, are dangerous. they're clear chokepoints to pirate, and lets face it, there aren't military blokes patrolling them.

Tradelanes, it seems, are the issue. That and the routes need some help, but, eh.