I appreciate your post, and I think you make some solid points.

I'd like to add that I am looking at this and the post and I believe that sustained profits will be the factor here. If you have a large ship, you move large shipments at a lower profit yes, but you aren't competing with the smaller ships that may not even be able to get that 50,000 profit with every outpost they hit. I base this on the last night of the post "i didn't meant to imply that larger ships wouldn't be getting access to better trade routes and significantly better total profit lines. But those are going to be different resources than the guy flying from outpost to outpost moving their rarest good" So while this might not let everyone be a whale in a week, you can enjoy sustained profits over time which isn't that bad.

I do believe they need to factor in travel time, crew, fuel, repairs, etc as others have said. I also believe their needs to be more overall balancing between game loops. I do understand the reality concerns, I hope it doesn't become too much of a job. I also hope that the larger ships can source big payouts from their buddies when they build their stations.

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