' Wrote:This is just traders not wanting there to be any risk to trading. Sorry guys trading is not like buying a government bond. It's not a guaranteed investment, and people should not think and act like it is. I trade alot, I rarely get pirated, you want to know why? I dont make it easy to pirate me, I dont trade tabbed out, I dont use the trade lanes as often, I avoid systems that tend to have alot of pirates.. Yes, I may make money a bit more slowly than others, but at the end of the day, I will have more money and it will be safe because I treat trading as a risk, and protect my money. This is just some people want a guaranteed way to make money, not the risks of rping a trader.
Agreed Zelot.
Trading = risk, that's fair enough to say.
I trade a little every day, I'm not looking to get the biggest fanciest ship out there, just the ones I want.
I spent an hour or so in Opus (my trader) drifting around in the helium cloud in Pennys today. Filled my hold full of helium and made a bit over 2.5 million credits.
I trade like you do, I use my "long range scanner" to check systems I have to travel through for Pirates I know about, mostly keep off of the TL's and use Jump Holes instead of Gates, depending where I am.
It takes longer for to get to where I am going, but more often than not I get there without Pirates even getting a sniff of me, although sometimes it is obviously more due to good luck than judgement. :laugh: