"Station should charge you 10% of the monies involved, a service like this should never be free."

I don't really see a service here, especially if the station is of your nation. However, I don't have a problem with it... as long as the 10% applies to both parties. As well as applying to any one buying/selling goods, weapons or anything else from/to the station.

Given the fact that we buy all our ships, most of our cargo, most of our weapons, pay rent for storage... (which is a service) and repair our ships at said stations, charging os 10% for the privilege of buying or selling with each other is in no uncertain terms ludicrous.

I don't really see a service here

Well somebody has to move those cargo crates around.

Fair point I suppose... still 10%can add up to a whole lot. 500 per 200cu seems reasonable. After all, your paying for labor, there should be no expectation of profit sharing.

Fair point I suppose... still 10%can add up to a whole lot. 500 per 200cu seems reasonable. After all, your paying for labor, there should be no expectation of profit sharing.

Off topic point you can choose to ignore:
Convoy escorts should be paid constant wages for exactly this reason.

Yes, and yes.

"Convoy escorts should be paid constant wages for exactly this reason."

Given how much they pay with the alleged "profit sharing", a steady wage seems preferable.

Escorts should pay 10k per jump, minus 5k per ship lost per jump. If you lose more than 1 ship, you might as well have not been escorting at all.

But we're getting off topic.

Defiantly off topic but, to fix the convoys I would agree with lose 5k per lost ship, maybe even 10k... excluding fighters. Also, that part in the mission blurb where it talks about profit sharing... make that more than just text. base the pay on distance traveled, surviving cargo ships and value of cargo.

On topic... info says that /transfer item... (in some form) will eventually be implemented, lets go for soon.

Also, that part in the mission blurb where it talks about profit sharing... make that more than just text.

This is already the case, which is most of the problem. It's absolutely stupid that you can get paid more for escorting a convoy full of something valuable than one full of something mundane. It is even stupider that it's currently impossible to make as much money in an hour of trading as in 20 minutes of escort missions.

If you use your cargo scanner to abort the crap missions, you can make more in 30 minutes of escorting than you could over a solid day of trading.

But I'm cool with this massive, game breaking piece of economic stupidity. Don't fix it, Devs. I'm enjoying the free money.

I'm enjoying the free money.

Trust me, TGFT is enjoying it even more than you are.

No doubt, but they were retardedly filthy already. I was too, but probably not as much as the average TGFT drone.

No, no, the average TGFT isn't very rich at all; he's on the bottom of the pyramid scheme, and the majority of his time and energy go into making his superiors richer.

The average TGFT higher-up, though, is another matter entirely.

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21849
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21987

Other ideas on the same subject.

Bumped at Atices request.

[EDIT]Bumped as per Atices instructions.[EDIT]

heh, that's pushing it ryan. I just said you were bumping the wrong thread :p.

Atice: "heh, then go bump that thread :p."

Sorry, upon looking back, that is not so much a request as it is instructions. I'll edit the post ;-P

w/e
this was a good idea.

get a room

yea this would be simple, it might hurt pirates a bit, but the convenience of eliminating the grinding would be worth it. Above almost all else, I have been against grinding, it just makes it too much like work to me.

If one could transfer ships, this would open up all sorts of fantastic new player interaction options.