Usefullness of trading factions. Or uselessness rather...

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Also, Gheis, i was in OSI. And i was stuck with BWT. Also, in that month i was there, we did ONE convoy. Rest of time i was alone, making near laughable small sums.

It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm pretty sure you'd left long before I'd even joined. OSI was very different then compared to now.

We've changed things quite a bit in the past six to eight months. No more ship restrictions just for the reasons stated before this post. Convoys don't happen as such very often, but when someone's running RP cargo, we tend to group up in pairs or trios and run stuff together. The "profit" routes really aren't that bad either, but not as good as some in-house runs due to the inability to dock a ZG ship there. There's times when you're forced to stick with the BWT simply out of ID restriction, and there's not a thing we can do about it.

It's strange. Last month we had a bunch of people running the contract cargo, but I couldn't for the life of me get them to just log on and trade for profit.

Addendum: I suppose the point is that our allure isn't in the moneymaking, it's in helping to shape the faction. While decent money can be made on an OSI Whale with some of our routes, we often forgo that for just carrying roleplay cargo. It's a strange beast, not one that appeals to many, I realize.