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' Wrote:Commodity Name : H-Fuel
Starting Location : Sigmas
Ending Location : Omega 49
Description of bug : H-Fuel sells for a decent amount on Planet Gran Canaria, but only 100c or so on Lanzarote Base. Is there a reason behind that? Perhaps Lanzarote is powered by deuterium instead of H-Fuel...
There are over 400 bases in the mod now, and each price for each commodity has to be individually coded for each base if there is to be a specially set price there. Otherwise the sale price defaults to a default price (I'm not going to go into the technical details.) So the basic answer is : I didn't spend time programming 400+ prices for HFuel. I chose the most important locations to set up routes and that's it. Local distribution to other bases is left to the imagination.
' Wrote:cardi and artifacts are buyable on planet Manhattan. Manhattan, of all places! just odd to me, but if it's on purpose, please disregard this
That is intentional, and it reflects the "retail" local black market distribution.
' Wrote:I'm a little curious about the changes to the Artifact trade - the logic of it seems to escape me.
There was much hullabaloo made about Corsairs being able to dock on Luxury Liner Hawaii- presumably to sell Artifacts but they are now only 100 credits there - you actually lose money bringing them from Gamma so there is absolutely no reason for a Corsair to go there. - they were 600 odd in .84 which at least made it slightly profitable.
Added to that, the incentive to trade to Liberty has not been removed. Liberty is still by far the most profitable place to trade the commodity, Brettonia is a little better, but why not go two systems further for 1400 extra profit on the stuff?
See my explanation of Hfuel for the Luxury Liner Hawaii price for artifacts. I ran into a big problem setting a higher price for them their : it screwed up the trade routes badly because of the geography. I don't know how Digital Anvil balanced it, but prices are different now and I don't have a team of people to figure it out like they did. I just couldn't make it work.
There was never any intention or plan to cut Liberty out of the artifact market. You will find, however, that a Corsair ID'd artifact smuggler has a decent option in Bretonia with the Gaians, and something very interesting to haul back to the Omicrons, if you hop over a few systems to another Gaian base. And -that- is not available in Liberty!
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