We have plans for other specialties in the future, and one of them might be along that route...Originally Posted by lordxorn
You can't trade technology.. at least not yet.. The system will allow for it, but for the time being we wanted to scale the game back a little to see what works best. Some of the abilities were held back because we felt it really caused an imbalance to introduce it at this time.
The main thing that traders are designed to do is build faster, and acquire RO natively. They can start mining RO right from the start, and they get a 10% increase for every level in the skill vs the 3% increase other specialties get. This allows the trader the ability to quickly build ships, and defenses. They are also desirable to the other classes because they can provide people with more RO via trading than they can gather on their own. I would think of the trader as the colonizing class. They have more reason to colonize planets for trading / gathering purposes than other classes.
I would imagine the gas giants will be the most contested planets for the traders, since their RO production can be quite high.
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