4.85 Economy Bug Reports

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We're being plagued by powertraders flitting between Tripoli Shipyard and Planet Crete. There's no good reason for this trade-run to be profitable whatsoever, and Corsairs are prevented from pirating these traders as, in RP, it's against Corsair laws to pirate transports taking goods to corsair bases.
FL Companion shows that the profit rate of this trade run is a massive 2.5 times that of the MOST profitable artefact run (which is only calculated as being so profitable because routes to liberty are calculated through Alaska).

this is why RP is flawed. on a non-RP server like Archy's Portal, people tend to park battleships above Crete and stop people from doing the run. As far as I'm concerned, if you're going to trade at all you should be a prime target for any pirate, meaning trading in pirate territory is asking to get pirated. After all, what's to stop a Corsair from killing some random freelancer and taking the loot to the destination? Hell, if you go by Corsair lore, this makes a lot more sense (and is less exploitable) than whatever weird system is used on RP servers now.

If anything, there should be more of these lucrative, quick trades available in pirate territory, and you have to brave the pirate factions in order to profit. As for the non-RP servers, people just park battleships/gebs wherever they please to counteract the issue. Problem solved.

besides, you still need about 40 hours worth of trading with a 4500+ cargo ship in order to afford a decently kitted battleship as it is, so there need to be ways of actually making money other than going across Sirius for a $10 profit