Powertrading comes in two forms. One, real powertrading, is when you grab yourself the highest capacity ship you can fly, run the most effective routes you can, ignore passersby who throw out a "greetings pilot" at you in favour of pre-aligning to the next lane ring while looking up the next best stop on Companion (unless you know a local POB has ore on the cheap), and logging out when someone is in the system you're about to jump into so you can log into another powertrading ship you logged out of for the same reason half an hour ago. You have six ships in that state. Impy considers you a wealthy person. You drink skim milk.
The other type of powertrading doesn't actually exist. It's just regular trading, which you don't even do, but it makes you angry because people successfully avoid you without logging off (up your CD alignment game, dogg). You have a bomber in each independent world and the only blues you have on then are yourself. You drink whole milk, but sometimes you put a shotglass of coffee creamer in there to "jazz things up".
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(05-23-2019, 04:31 PM)Haste Wrote: Powertrading is when you want money and you use a trade ship to make it. It's probably 99% of the trading going on on the server. There's a minority of madlads who fly transports for fun, those are the ones not powertrading.
You mean like me?
That being said, yeah powertrading as a term is used out of context more often then it isn't. Like me, I sarcastically say "I am a power trader" while trading passengers in a Cap8 Renzu with a Jin scanner for the fun of it.
- Using a 3200 cargo ship while I can have 4300 cargo under my ID.
- Flying inefficient and long routes because if fits the RP of my character better.
- Actually RPing with whoever I encounter
(05-23-2019, 05:09 PM)Megaera Wrote: - Using a 3200 cargo ship while I can have 4300 cargo under my ID.
- Flying inefficient and long routes because if fits the RP of my character better.
- Actually RPing with whoever I encounter
= Powertrader
This, it's what I did on Sun before she became Administrator.
To me powertrading is just trading for the sake of profit rather than because you actually want to play a trader, and that's a perfectly understandable thing to do. If I talk about powertraders it's never intended to be a slight against those people.
Since the role of a trader is as someone who's trying to make money, I don't see how trying to make money is against the role of a trader.
A UPS guy isn't going to just stop and talk for an hour with everybody he sees. He's on a schedule.
Just like an invading army isn't going to stop and talk shit for 45 minutes before they attack. Maybe they did that back in the 1200's, but they don't today, and they certainly won't in the future. It's not bad roleplay to treat hostiles as hostiles.
Yes, a pirate will speak a lot with a victim, and pirates and police may argue, but enemy armies would just go straight into the action.
i now fly a firefly, and made a lot of rp cargo transport, i was well paid yes, but i know a route, that could give me all that in 1/2 the time!!! is good to have a lot of credits, even when you don'y need then now, because you never know when you are going to need then. there are a lot of things here that are too expensive, so i understand that many power trade to be able to buy some of those stuff