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Every commodity price is figured using the fastest possible route, regardless of what that is. The only exception I've made to this is Niobium from Falkland to Leipzig. The route goes through Alpha but I priced it to pay for the longer path through Kusari.
If the consumption point is a lawful base, like Manhattan, then I expect that if you can land on Manhattan to sell contraband, then you can buy legal commodities on Manhattan or a nearby base for the return trip. The intended return trip for Artifacts is Luxury Consumer Goods from Newark. For Cardamine it's Slaves from Pittsburgh (Basic Alloys from Manhattan to Pittsburgh, first).
The Junker and Rogue bases around Liberty offer various commodities that are bought in Alpha and Gamma for unlawful faction IDs who are trading to those bases (Rochester-Superconductors to Tripoli; Rochester-Luxury Goods to Niverton, Niverton/Buffalo-Slaves to Malta). The higher prices for contraband on Manhattan compensate for the lower cargo that Freelancer/Smuggler IDs are restricted to, so the system is balanced for both Outcast/Corsair and Freelancers, depending on where they are able to land.
There are some experimental changes to cardamine and artifact prices in Update 4.
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