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Can you expand on the trading? That's what sucks me into games like the X series. If I can sink a ton of time into setting up mining and trading logistic, then sandbox/explore occasionally, that might just sell me lol.
You can run trade routes for money, although what that amounts to is finding a route through a bunch of systems and then running through them buying low and selling high at each stop. The trade system is pretty barebones tho, nothing as deep as old Privateer or X games- economies are static and your actions don't really affect the local markets.
Later on in the game you can get a capital ship and hire fleets of freighters to send out on expeditions, but mechanically it's just a passive way to farm resources rather than a management sim mini-game.
Oh then this is a game for you lol. They added a whole factory building mechanic where you can build mining stations and automate some things, power grids, the trading is fairly simple but it has a nice supply and demand mechanic and the whole fleet mechanic is super cool, though I wish more than one person could have their fleet in the same system, though maybe that has changed.
Ok that's pretty cool. I ended up grabbing it and just played a bit in normal mode but I'm gonna switch to Relaxed mode I think.