Traders Cargo in Player Driven Economy - Post patch 9.72

[sacapus]

After the patch, Port stores are running dry of ressources and high inflation, these ressources that cannot be replenished by the players building.

 

AI traders should be carrying more cargo for players to cap to fill the gap between supply and demand.

LGV shouldn't be carrying only 51 units in its hold, make it at least 25% of the cargo hold capacity and increase its diversity, add some ship parts like furnishing, iron ingot etc...

 

The current economy state is directly linked to the fact that players must craft their warship instead of capping them, this is adding a lot of pressure on the economy.

 

A player is currently offering Iron Fitting for 100000 gold...

Players are currently stock piling ship parts for crafters, there's no room for doing trading since there's no product left in port to trade at a profit.

 

[Reckiario]

I agree with you. The system needs improving.

[Lytse Pier]

Don't forget that the cargo holds of the trader ships are still artificially enlarged. They hold I believe 4x as much now as they will in the future. Or was it 8x, I forgot.

[jw62]

Agree on all that. I'm just learning to build and sold my first Snow, took a long cruise to find silver, no silver in silver ports. Hemp ran out. I need my hemp, man. To build cordage and hawsers. More materials! Some sort of economy. And sure, more parts, more drops. You can't rely on players to build the infrastructure to such a large extent, they want to play. You have to put the resources in view, doesn't all have to stand out front waving flags.

Merge this with the thread on cargo in traders and the ability to send traders home with cargo. That is really the easiest way to tweak the economy. Call it a Stimulus Program. For Pirates(any one with a salvage claim is a pirate on the real Seas, heheheh) (and Insurance Companies do be my lawful prey, on occasion)

It would justify trader hunting. Right now, I usually get more money from a master and commander fight than from capping a snow and selling cargo and ship. Fighting in the age of sail is about honor, or lack thereof. Privateering and taking prizes is about Lucre, filthy lucre.