Trading routes balance

[DeathsOverture]

Well said, Angelfire.

In my opinion, what we really need is someone to create an internal development tool with a nice GUI (graphical user interface) to read in the market_commodities.ini file and allow customization of commodities by showing profitability from purchase points to the various sell points and allowing prices to be tweaked.

Xoria isn't around to say it, but the economy took many many hours of number crunching. To completely revamp the economy would be no easy task...

That being said, what would happen if we just raised the base price of all commodities? The buy/sell prices are all relative to the base price, so if we multiply the base price by 1.2, all buy prices would increase by 20%, as would the sale.

old_profit=high-low

vs new_profit=1.2*high-1.2*low

new_profit=1.2*old_profit

20% more profit?

The net effect would mean slighly more risky trade routes at a higher profit margin. This wouldn't solve the tradelane vs free space imbalance, since the travel times are all based on Freelancer Companion.

Edit: This might be advantageous to high priced commodities like Nuclear Devices... it's too early for me to do math.

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