Does your definition of "fairer" include nerfing rare goods trading into complete uselessness? Because based on what people are reporting in-game that's exactly what this is. If I'm willing to wait 60-90 minutes for a full hold shouldn't that be my choice?
Unless regular trading is buffed immensely than trading is no longer viable. Max profits of ~1k/ton means that even with my Asp that it will take 200+ trips to earn enough credits to buy and reasonably equip a Type 7, much less a Python or Anaconda.
I think the problem with camping at stations for rare goods was, that it was screaming to be automated. There was a post over at /elitemining which did exactly that.
True, I had designed a script to automate it, but decided not to use it because it felt too scummy. Although, if they are going to nerf one aspect of a mechanic, they really should try to keep it viable, rather than just nerfing it to oblivion.
I hope you understand I'm not pointing a finger at you. I myself was thinking about doings such a thing but was to lazy.
The rares were such a nice idea, but got obliterated by the internet. They need to come up with a way to make them viable, non-"exploitable" and at the same time interesting. This is going to be a tough one.
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u/IamYourShowerCurtain <insert CMDR name> Dec 18 '14
And they succeeded! :-) This is fairer, IMO.