How to support trading factions

[Wuselkobold]

- Transports are slow and turn like a rock, while Freighters are fast and agile. In my opineon, Transports should be used in long shipping runs, from House to House, using the 'highway' Trade Lanes (For example the Independent worlds, straight forward routes without sharp turns from TL to TL). They should exclusively dock at the distribution bases which every house has at least one of (Kensington Shipping Platform and Trenton Outpost for example). These bases should provide profitable routes to the other Houses, with many options where to go next, so Transport pilots are not tempted to dock at the main House Planets/Bases.
The small transports could pick up the delivered goods and use the 'country roads' to deliver them on the Bases they are needed on, with moderate profit but doing more runs in the same time. The big Transports would keep their freedom to go all across Sirius, making big profits, while the Freighters could be doing distribution work inside the Houses, which would give them much more traffic (wich is much needed in Bretonia, Rheinland and Kusari).

I'll quote myself and a suggestion I've made last year to the topic of how to give freighter pilots some incentive for actually flying them.

The above mentioned thing could be realised by adding sale locations on the docking rings of planets, where transports can't dock.
An example: New Berlin needs Luxury consumer goods. So we take a full load in our Large train and can either go blockade running and drop them off on Altona Station, or take the longer routr through Kusari, and drop the goods on Mainz Storage Facility.
Now another player takes his Humpback/Ragnar, buys Luxury consumer goods on either of the two bases, and transports them to Planet New Berlin (Docking Ring) where they are bought for a moderate profit, the credits per hour should be somwhat around the standard cooperation trade runs maybe?

This would greately increase diversity, give freighters, which are fun to fly and pretty ships a real purpose.
So, Transports for long range trade runs, freighters for all the short runs.

And yes, I do realise this would require lots of work to realise :(

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