Any lawful's left in Disco?

[jammi]

So, there is an open market for you to fit into! Jump in and make loads of money! Go on! Make an escort!
You really should try pirating. When it comes to losing, the RP slowly fades away. And heaven forbid someone give you strong RP reason for losing....

Now, I made an escort a few days ago. I'll copy and paste my, heh, in-depth findings from another thread in a moment. For now, I'll say that escorting is being potrayed as the way to make money at the moment, simply because apparantly everyone wants them. This is a case of people being incapable of putting their money where their mouth is.

Next to no-one is interested in escorts - why yesterday, there was three of us escorts mooching around New York, frequently advertising ourselves while the system was absolutely full of high level traders. There was a fair few pirates too. That entire day I got two jobs. One was a short haul to Colorado and back, the other a long trip to New Tokyo. Total profit? 5.5 million.

Sorry... the point is exactely that there are not escorts cause there is not a profitable market for them, hence to balance things we should figure out a way to make escorts more profitable. Sorry for the repetition but apparently my point was not clear enough... or your reading was not very... very...

To an extent, the man is correct. The traders don't want to part with their money - especially the ore miners and haulers it would seem. This is not always the case though. I made a habit of listening to people talking, then seeking out the more capable sounding players through PMs. I got quite a few more jobs that way.

As a matter of a fact, I made the majority of my money with two customers doing a back and forth trip from New Tokyo. That day I made 26 million. Swings and roundabouts, I guess. No-where near as good as tradeing, but it'll keep you in repairs and ammo.

I spent almost the entirety of yesterday floating around New York and Penny on my escort looking or work. Two people. Two people. Out of the entire day, only two people were interested, and both systems were packed with miners and traders each time I advertised.

The bit that put me in despair was when I actually flew to the silver field to offer my services to some Miners as a bomber scout/escort. At this point a Lane Hacker GS was 9k away. Being able to see the GS, they still all refused. I left them to it, and they got extorted for a lot of money...

Eh. Why do I bother... I'll put my advert here anyway: "Asoi Kyou, not a single transport pirated or destroyed under my watch."

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