Trade Development Blog

[Thyrzul]

Request

As the leader of The Council I would like to request the following:

• Removal of the Basic Alloy resale point from Perpignan Spaceport
• Removal of the Munitions resale point from Battleship Pamiers
• Removal of the Engine Components resale point from Chalons-en-Champagne Station
• Removal of the Polymers resale point from Planet Marne, both entries
• Removal of the Superconductors resale point from Perpignan Spaceport

Reasoning

The above listed commodities on the above listed dockable solars are without exception by far not the cheapest in the whole game, and by using Freelancer Companion on default settings, I found no routes originating from these stations with these commodities to be above the profitability margin of 1,5 cr/sec/slot. With this I feel the removal of these redistribution points would not affect the economy negatively severely.

(Actually profitable routes begin far above 2 cr/sec/slot, I'd say around 2,3-2,5, while certain freighter-only routes are ~2,7, contraband routes going above ~3.)

Their existence however creates certain issues for me upon trying out commodity-related activities like this to create activity for my own faction and for those in connection with us, like I have done in the past. There was already an incident (read OORP spoiler on bottom) where commodity supplies were done via delivering not even half a minute afar from the purchase point, which I would like to avoid with having the closest sell point being at least a jump away.

If it can be done, I'd be happy. If not, I'll try to solve the issue on my own, thought I've no idea how, yet.

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