How to support trading factions

[jammi]

I note Bowex are very active at the moment. Perhaps they are hauling ore.

Well, I am, the others aren't as much. Bowex is active because the management is encouraging the members to be proactive. Besides this, we're also exploring alternate RP for more stuff we can do - which includes Shire runs at invading battleships at Leeds (if we're there and the convoy is free), ect.

I kind of boils down to whats the benefit of joining a trade faction?

Bowex has a cool ship (The Shire)

The Shire isn't why we get members. Again, it's being about being proactive. We go on recruitment drives on the forums and bag people ingame. Go find a newbie in a Starflea or CSV and offer to let him come along with you. When you get to Leeds on your run, give him the cash for a Clydesdale. He'll probably be grateful. Keep convoying with said newbie until you've got a judge on him - at this point, you either do or don't offer a place in the faction. Simples. That's not to mention recruitment of indy Bowex or other trade corps we run across.

That equation is already in place Rudo.

Not really? As-is, one bomber can chew through any number of standard transports. The problem is, bombers shouldn't be used for piracy - they're balanced to kill freaking battleships. Demanding cash is a online player technique. It shouldn't work that way - the traders wouldn't have that money on hand. Well, corporations wouldn't anyway. Any money that ship makes goes into the corporation's accounts. You're not making your own money, you're paid a wage. Still, I digress.

Back to Rudo's ratio that Dusty says exists.

If there's more pirates than traders - trader is undoubtedly dead. If there are more traders than pirates - the pirates just have to grind their way through the convoy (convoy is dead unless they have somewhere they can run to). If there's an equal number of pirates and traders - traders are still dead. Of course, this relates to bombers. Transports against Transports is a little more equal.

One thing many (many, not all) trading factions lack of is a stable escort/trader structure. You escort idea Cannon is quite decent. I would join up to soem of these factions like Bowex if I could do something other than trading e.g escorting without feeling...unproductive?

Bowex has an Ex/Sec wing. Currently you don't see much of it because I shut it down to reorganise. However, we will be styling it almost as an independent mercenary wing that has priority contracts to Bowex. What we desperately need however, is dedicated escort pilots. Most of ours were just part time trade captains, which was part of the trouble.

Get in contact and we can talk about it?

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