Discovery Economy Reformation

[Leo]

a) I believe the problem with pirates "not having enough targets" in house space comes from the diversity and universal availability of the house routes actually. There are so many routes who offer about same money that trader can easily pick to avoid pirates. At the same time the traders are distributed over wide area, so it's hard for pirate to pick a spot where he's likely to catch someone.
Mining places are on the other hand rather concentrated and easy to cover for the pirate.
Smuggling routes have to offer a bit more money because of the added risk, how much that is a question.

That's true, I didn't consider that, even still though, it still begs the question that the lawful routes have risks too of being pirated. Smuggling isn't the only risk, just differs in who wants to steal your cargo. Lawfuls wanna take your "contraband" or pirates wanna take your "money." So, no matter what, you're taking risks in trading.

40 million per hour is what I'd extremely good reward. But then again other people have a different opinion.

40 million per hour is terrible. That's 80 million every two, 120 every three. That's would take me TWENTY HOURS to get up to 800 million to even get a CAU8 for my ONLY cruiser (Nemesis). That's way too much time and I have way more to do than sit and fly a ship the same route over, and over, and over again.

~Leo

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