Price fluctuation - system to system

[L Y N X]

I’m new here and still on first campaign, overall really enjoying BT. That said I wonder if the buying and selling prices ever fluctuate from system to system?

I’m not looking so much to play a trader or broker and make profit on trades, but to make more than roughly 10% of the value of the mech sold...

If HBS ever reduces salvage, then I hope they increase what salvage sells for?

 

[L Y N X]

I’d like to see a dynamic market economy simulated...

If at a planet where several large battles went down then one would expect law of supply and demand to impact buying and selling prices a bit... fewer mechs and mech parts means they have more value for selling and cost more to buy. It should never fluctuate so much that you could but a bunch of parts when you arrive at a new planet, win 3 large missions and then sell back parts for now more than you bought them for.

Systems with higher cost of living should have higher prices to reflect the std of living.

 

[Bubbasan]

Kiva (lead designer) has stated in the past that she has no interest in developing a dynamic market sim. She's apparently done that before and the fun value doesn't equal the work value.

 

[L Y N X]

Thank you Bubba for the history on this subject... It is disapointing, Kiva might learn a lot about life by putting in that work and then the fun would come! Maybe we can hope for an expansion improvement, because the current economy is a fiat , fake, phony, and it feels shortcutted. Now That sucks the FUN out of a game thats 8-9/10 and could be 10/10.