but thats ridiculous to say that you cant trade gate lane parts. cmon they are a manufacturing company. they hire people to distribute them. now ageira can has their own transports that take them to certain distribution centers, but then someone else transports it to the next place it has to go. each person along the way makes a fraction of the pie by for delivering it, but ageira makes the base majority bc they made the parts.
if you restricted it, i mean that would just be ridiculous. in todays market, any product you buy has been sold about 4 times. different people assume ownership as it gets closer and closer to the final owner.
all the indie traders are doing, are being like the independent truckers we have on the road today. they work for themselves, but will haul things for companies. thats perfect there is nothing wrong with that. the corporate traders in disco are the truckers that work for only one company and haul only their stuff.
now if you wanted to stop having so many just Completely independent traders you could make a new faction for delivery service. unlike ageira they dont make certain parts, but they haul the stuff for ageira or other manufacturers. like a UPS kind of company or even just a trader union where they work together. that way they can still trade anything anywhere reasonable, but still have a base grounding for RP purposes and will encourage teamwork.