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[Carlos_Benitez]

I only just realised that Artefacts had...gone.

The life-blood of the Corsairs gone. Lets not delude ourselves...the people of Crete aren't fed by heroic pirates hacking lanes and stealing food from trains between Bretonia and Rheinland, they are fed by food bought from Freeports, with money from the Artefacts trade.
Now, there is none. The Corsairs have no non-stolen goods to trade with the Zoners.
Has Malta run out of Cardimine? No. The source of the Artifacts...the cloud in Crete is as rich as ever, yet artefacts aren't sold anywhere in Gamma.. the source system. Not only is it absurd, its fundamentally unfair, and in my view detrimental to role-play.

Only today, I spent 100 mill on setting up a Pirate Train (doing afew favours for some Mollys I cant say im proud of in order to get it), intending to do some RP trading around Corsair space. That plan is now almost ruined. There can be no RP trading in Gamma, Gamma has nothing to trade.
Talk of whatever run involving artefacts to me sounds ridiculous, when you think about just how many people you used to see doing it. I spent allot of time sitting outside Crete, and barely encountered any traders on this run. Why? They where all off doing the Cambridge-Theta, more efficient, less Corsairs about (although that changed). This run wasn't taken out because it was too easy, it was just moved slightly.
Following an extended and tenuous metaphor... intending to construct hand-crafted oak furnature at home, at leisure, but instead moving away to work in a factory for Ikea. Satisfaction gone, repetitiveness increased, it could've been fun, a hobby. Now its a 9-5 job with an hour for lunch.

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