Hull COmponents are allready ship components. I would rename that to 'Ship Equipment' Rather then Components. Lot easyer for unders to understand
Medkits: Buy low deep in house space, sell heigher in places like leeds, where Kusaria and bretonia are often fighting. Medkits however should be approx the cost of water etcetera.
I do like to see commodotys like:
Station Parts (Gives ageira a sub from gatelane)
Mail bags (Gives universal shipping an alternate) Wheter or not, real mail will never dissapear.)
Jewerly
Building Parts (For planetairy houses
Beer (Aside from wine)
Gambling machinery: (bought far far far away from los angelus., sold at LA)
Militairy Equipment (We have got vehicles, Why not equipment, not every war is foguth in space)
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' Wrote:more commodities-more chances i will become a trader
You should keep at least one trade ship in your inventory to serve if nothing else, as a bank. My trade ship was my first profile and everything I have I've built off of it.
I've always found myself coming up with ideas for commodities. If no-one minds, I'll dump them here:
- Falsified IDs (Illegal)
Some people need to get from A to B. Some of those people may need to get from A to B without anyone knowing who they are, or that they are at B in the first place. As such, it is a high probability that falsified papers will be used to commit such an act.
- AI Datacores
Programmed and shipped, these AI cores can be implemented into a variety of tasks, from simple house keeping to ship navigation.
- Datapads
Used for a variety of purposes, the datapad is a necessary tool for everyone no matter who they are, what they do or where they do it.
- Luxury Vehicles
Planets are big. People need to get around on these big planets. Of those that do, quite a few want to do it in style.
- Empty Shipping Container
These containers are ofen used for a variety of shipping purposes. Problem is, they're sending them out along with the goods, and the people sending them sometimes need the containers back.
Arms and Legs Guy Wrote:Don't tell them the truth : That in reality you are a potbellied german VW factory worker named Horst.
Don't discount the basic commodities! Here's a few I whipped up below. I was inspired by Gallia's fossil fuels among other things...
PALLADIUM
Palladium is a precious silvery-white metal. It finds many uses, such as in radiation shield alloys and as a catalyst in fuel cells. It is also beginning to supplant gold and platinum in the use of jewellry, owing to its sturdiness and the extreme rarity of the other two metals in Sirius.
XENON
Xenon is a colorless, odorless noble gas. Its uses are many and varied -- lighting flashtubes, a fuel in ion engines, a stimulant in lasers, and an anesthetic, just to name a few. Xenon is a rare component in the atmosphere of many planets, but can be found in relatively abundant in some space-borne pockets.
COAL
Coal is the remains of ancient organic material, compress into a rock-like form. It exists in relative abundance on many life-bearing planets. The use of coal was abandoned centuries ago, but it has enjoyed a resurgence of late. It can be burned to generate energy in a pinch, although this is a "quick and dirty" method. More commonly it is gasified into CO and elemental hydrogen, from which fusion isotopes can be extracted.
LNG
Liquefied Natural Gas is a mixture of methane, along with trace ethane and longer chain hydrocarbons, compressed into liquid form for easy storage. Like coal it is a byproduct of organic decay, and can generate energy either through direct combustion (somewhat more cleanly than coal), or reduced to hydrogen and its fusible isotopes. Unlike coal, LNG components can be found in space-borne gas pockets as well as on terrestrial planets.
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You may find it frightening to discover how much you think like me, Onca. Out of the 4 items on your list, one of them already made it into 4.86, and another remains as a possibility that didn't get used. A third will now go on my future planning list.
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