Is there any chance you would make the Shadowy Broker's fee configurable?
I blew 15K before I realized he was charging me 5,000 credits and only searching the local system because he defaults to 0LY radius, and then I blew another 5K when I did a long-range search but forgot
where he suggested that I sell the goods I had just bought, and he never even bothered to write it down anywhere!
Also he tried to suggest I buy in a pirate port in a system with a neutron star, which I didn't realize, and that... Led to a series of escalating poor decisions that wound up with me having to abandon a save.
That was
not 40,000 credits worth of service. Also, I haven't noticed
any difference in the system bars.
Frankly, all he's doing is saving me two hours of work searching the trade routes and running the math. But the thing is, I command a ship - a
fleet of ships. On those ships are computers. Manning those computers are
subordinates.I shouldn't have to pay for
that at all, frankly, I should tell my number one to have the quartermaster look for potential profitable freelance trades. So I'd like to be able to set the fee down to something more reasonable, like 500 credits.
What
would be worth paying for is if the Shadowy Broker could just
conjure a bar-style trade mission on-demand. 5,000 credits to grease the right wheels, make the right connections, some for himself, and then "here's a job that isn't open for just anyone. Take it or leave it, but, I found a guy - you don't need to know who, they don't wanna know you - who needs this stuff moved to this place by X time. Get it done, and here's the pay."
Also, perhaps a parameter for the Shadow Broker to
not suggest trades involving
hostile factions? It's one thing to trade on the black market of a place I can land at, it's another thing for the Broker to suggest a trade which sends me into the jaws of a gigantic Luddic Path fleet.
Okay, nevermind that, I misunderstood the function of 'Approach Lawfully/Lawlessly'. I thought 'lawless approach' meant "I don't mind trading illegal goods/selling the black market," not "send me somewhere I'd have to either sneak or shoot my way into port".Nope! Nevermind the Nevermind!
https://imgur.com/a/788x80E It's
still sending me to Soul, a Luddic Path world, and if I fly into that system I'm gonna get dogpiled by approximately thirty ships.