Lygos
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Posted - 2005.11.08 20:23:00 -
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I always thought it would be cool to have a big junker ship that can carry a variety of smaller volume goods.
You stop at a station and try to pawn off a few goods at a price a little higher than you bought them, and at the same time you offload a few at the same station.
At the moment it seems easier to just pick one good and transport it in one trip. The mechanics are setup to handle these large buy and sell orders, and it is obviously more profitable at the moment to do it this way. But it also seems more boring. If the market pricing were more responsive, or simply occured in smaller quantities, this would not be the case.
At the moment, new traders only look at the limit of their bank account when filling up on goods. It's neat to watch your profits multiply exponentially with each trade. But eventually, with this model you hit your cargo limit and are restricted to ~1-2M isk trips if you stay in empire. It's easy work I guess, if somnambulent. Alternately you can start the process over by switching to trading vitoc and drop by running in 0.0, but I understand that was nerfed a bit arbitrarilly.
Trading can be a somewhat solo enterprise anyhow, so it probably wouldn't cause much of a flap if the agents system were enhanced somehow to help traders track down more lucrative sell and buy orders. Especially if it complemented the small volume, varied inventory approach to the trading profession.
The freighters are interesting when combined with long range market order skills in that you can setup massive stockpiles to take advantage of downtime and the capacity to just sit on top of huge assets until prices are favorable. Even this approach will eventually come to diminishing returns that revolve around labor costs.
Of course is this good or bad considering that it is basically printing isk, risk or no risk? I tend to think the inflated bank balances and hypothesized related inflation really doesn't matter so long as there are no tangible means of production to consider.
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