DezNutz wrote:Stan Rogers wrote:Mack wrote:The gold bars just dont make sense when you cant possibly buy one and sell it at another port with atleast 1 coin profit!
Please provide examples. I do not see what you are trying to state or request.
Well technically he is correct. You can't currently buy 1 gold bar at a port, ship it to another and make a profit. Since the cost of buying a GB is always higher than selling and all the ports have the same relative GB amounts, you aren't likely to make a profit. For you to make a profit, you would need to buy a large sum of gold bars in at least 2 different port to cause the price to jump drastically enough to move those bars and make a profit.
All other resources can be traded to any port (except same resource producing ones) at a profit : as GB's can be produced in any given port, and sold in any other, it would not be possible to have a profitable margin in all of them in the same way : I believe the admins dont want a situation where GB's can be traded back and forth on the same routes making a guaranteed profit either way.
I do agree that the 'spread' between buying and selling prices is too large, currently its about +/- 60 : so finding a spread between two ports giving more than 120 margin is pretty difficult, and thats assuming the ports are within reasonable sailing distance : add in that the dynamic pricing would mean any margins present before trading starts would be rapidly eroded by the act of trading itself, its nigh on impossible to comfortably set up a trading route and hope it lasts more than a few trips.
The only sure way is to make them yourself and ship them to profitable destinations : of course, that involves massive investment and then runs the risk of having them skirmished and lost. Really, trading GB's is a niche activity : stick to normal trading and it would probably be far more profitable overall and less costly to start up.
