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Nooooooooooooo... why little hamsters, WHYYYYY?!

Was it a full 24 hrs or did it not quite make it?

Excellent, now we have something to work with at least. ... Though I tried with 3 TT's once and I didn't get any change in price beyond the initial bonus. It may have something to do with OL or TL then? Perhaps the TT's in your larger groups were more experienced or had a better neg. skill? It does seem strange that the bonuses would increase at initial grouping, 3 TT's, 4 TT's, and 5 TT's. Worth looking into more.

[quote name='GenghisBob' timestamp='1355112345' post='68573'] For the emu they could make TT trading bonuses not stack if more than one TT in the group. A group could then have the bonus for at least one TT. [/quote] So far as I can tell, this is how it works right now. But I'm not much of a dedicated tester to find out for sure, not to mention i can't get cooperation from other TT's to find out lol.

[quote name='Mizagorn' timestamp='1355112416' post='68575'] Thanks as always, Kyp [/quote] Yes thank you

Boom goes the dynamite....

I hate multi-boxing, and thus am unaware of how effective such a technique would or wouldn't be. I know it's not difficult resource wise for the computer, since it's such an old game, but running 6 toons around? Or logging them on/off all the time... grouping them all the time. I dunno, for me that's just not fun. In any case, you may be right and someone would do that. So that's good enough reason for a change. But this still leaves the spirit of my post unanswered, which is basically, how do group bonuses work? All I know right now, as a TT, is that if I am in a group I get some percentage increase in sales, period. This benefits anyone also in the station, in my group. But is it a fixed increase? Does it change with level? With Trade Level? Is it based at all on the Negotiate skill? Since it is obvious that at least part of the way it works is different from live, it does suggest the possibility that it has been changed in other ways. And this suggests the possibility that group bonuses as a whole have been altered as well. As far as I can tell, there's nothing on the forums describing how they work in practice now.

Does grouping work as described here?: http://www.earthandbeyond.ca/game_info/grouping.html Or has it been changed? I tried grouping today with some TT's in a couple different configurations, and none of it seemed to work like described there. I am a TT, so I got my bonus for being in a group (different from what it says in that document), but never for another TT. As of yet I have tried grouping with 1 and 2 other TT's at once (2 and 3 TT's total) to no effect. I kept tabs on the effect by checking sell prices on a particular good while grouping, ungrouping, and regrouping in a few different setups, and each had the same result. At least for me, I had the same exact bonus as I got for simply being in a group. Can someone please explain how grouping bonuses work. Puh-leeeeaaaaase?!

Saw this and thought I would check out the Ishuan<->Mbali route. Turns out you can actually include that 'would-be' triangle on your return trip to make it like so: Mbali->Ishuan->Paren->Prasad->Somerled->Mbali I didn't sit down and figure out the numbers, but with level 3+ goods all the way around, it seemed like it might be better than just a straight Mbali<->ishuan route, given that many of the return stops are a couple jumps from each other. Give it a shot and see what you think.