[Trade Event] - Imperial Ambitions

[Chronicron]

I agree that it was a bit of a harsh nerf. It's now roughly over ore profit while some people can technically just blast you if they actually log.

The previous prices were super busted. Full disclosure, I forgot I'd put limitations on my copy of FLC to prevent jump gate usage while I was experimenting with some different routes. That led to the profit figures being way higher than they should have been, because the lane/gate route is naturally much shorter. Seeing how popular the route was, I figured we'd leave it up until the server restart this morning and let things play out.

The current post-purchase profit figures are roughly on par with average ore profits (to within -/+ 50/c/s), which I feel is fair considering there is is an infinite amount of this stuff and you're not reliant on other players to get hold of it. You're taking a slight hit to profit in exchange for convenience. If you want to self-mine and keep 100% of the profit, you're more than welcome to do so, but you'll be making much less cash on an hourly basis.

the difference is that trading ore doesn't makes you a kos target
you could've just nerfed the sell price for it on lawful bases and buffed it for pirate bases to compensate, the only sense to make it more expensive is if someone wanted to grief traders
(15 mills per 5k load is hilarious and it's a hell of a loss if a random RM/UN/MND gunboat/bomber camps out and kills you)

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[Lemon]

I can try
but the last event people just abuse knowing there will be a lot of traders and that they are targets
Was just safer to trade anything else (when i first docked it was the nerfed price already)

EDIT: also isn't the 3000 price really bad as when I get killed I LOSE 3000xcargo
so I have 9mill less with my basic train, and much higher chance to get shot down or intercepted when it's a new publicly announced route people will want to try? (Probably not an issue for others but I've played for a few days only and trade/mine while exploring so don't have much to my name)

EDIT2: Yes, already happening - gunboats other than the official fire order camping the trade routes, taking money e.g. gaians - the price should be better than ores in my opinion

[kerfy]

so why no Kruger allowed ?? .. that gold run is over worked already btw ..no matter.. BUT.. why Kruger being cut out of the fun.. maybe please adjust that.. My unarmed KRUGER transports are itching to get in on the fun.. federals cringe at the site of my mighty colossus bearing down on the cowardly scum ..

[Skorak]

Because Kruger can't dock on BMM. They're competitors.

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[Lusitano]

it is not Lisbon Rock but Lisburn Rock

[jammi]

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Imperial Ambitions
Dublin, New Berlin
Trade Event

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I'm very sorry to everyone for the delay in formally closing these events down (the sell points have been disabled since the patch release). The post-release churn has kept me busy, but it'd be remiss of me not to post the results to show how everyone did. As explained in the first post, this event was purely intended to provoke RP, so there are no formal outcomes resulting from it. A hell of a lot of you made a great deal of money however.

Anyone who participated is entitled to claim the "Imperial Industrialist" forum title by posting in this thread. Scores were as follows:

Results

Ship name	Bullion Shipped
{DHC}Olympus {DHC}Bavaria Traderloni RTS_Angevin Bosna_Trade Komet Blue.Dawn [DHC]-Manfred.Rauch Siegfried_Straube {DHC}Atzelgift BMF|Troy Hugh_Mungous MV|Britsy PF-Freyr DevilsReaper Glencoe B|-BCV-Vancouver BMF|Brilliant [RM]HM-Wolf The.Jutland SGT-Slastika Paraly Gansxvaveba PF-Gobannus BMF|GreatWhite Holger.Schafer Jim.Davis PF-Vesuvius [RS]~Siegfried_Straube [DHC]Maurice.Mueller PolarisOlthoi Camulodunum Eriador ProviderTechnican Eckardt_Straube B|-BCV-Queensdale TS_Kichiro Jack.Skittels Starfield.Joe Deep_Space_Transport {DHC}Arminius Light.Beam BMF|Galeka Alex.Meier.Fussballgott Conveyor Tokus Bramimond.Exile Cayman Pietro_Garbaggio Junkkeri Glukhar Sharkster	108,210 101,109 94,905 60,000 59,520 52,030 49,990 44,910 40,000 39,790 34,525 34,060 33,600 28,680 27,540 24,825 24,745 24,675 21,900 21,090 18,959 18,000 15,000 15,000 14,895 14,815 14,090 10,920 10,000 9,980 9,970 9,930 9,930 9,000 8,260 6,490 6,000 5,000 5,000 4,970 4,965 4,960 4,945 4,935 4,895 4,220 4,027 3,590 3,239 2,985 2,230 1,950
Total	1,189,254

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[Lemon]

number 12 Hugh_Mungous !
what exactly is a forum title?

[jammi]

number 12 Hugh_Mungous !
what exactly is a forum title?

It's the title just under your user name. Currently yours is the default setting of 'member'.

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[Prysin]

Can i reserve this title for later use???
{DHC}Bavaria

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[Lemon]

number 12 Hugh_Mungous !
what exactly is a forum title?

It's the title just under your user name. Currently yours is the default setting of 'member'.

nice! can I get the imperial one please