Guide to Economics OXPs

Economics OXP comparisons

	Risk-based Economy	New Cargoes	Risky Business	SW Economy	Real-Life Economics	Demand Driven Economy
Author	Cim	Cim	Phkb	Stranger	Phasted	Redspear
Functionability	v.1.81+	needs updating	v.1.81+	v.1.82+	needs fixing	v.1.79+
Redefines systems economically	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Adds new commodities	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Breaks away from Furs/Computers as most profitable trades	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Piracy (government type) affects prices	Yes	No	Yes	No?	No	No
Hub connectedness affects prices	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Economy size affects prices/quantities	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Planet geography affects prices/quantities	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Prices/Quantities vary dynamically	No	No	No	No	Price only	No

Note: this table currently excludes Phkb's Smugglers. It too has a major affect on trade and economics, but is not directly comparable with the above, since it works on prohibiting trade (thus encouraging smuggling and a black market) which then impacts massively on pricing.

This table also ignores some brilliant oxp's which introduce a focus on just one aspect of economics.

Geography

• BlOomberg Markets creates sudden changes in commodity prices which are geographic in effect.
• Darkside Moonshine Distillery introduces distance from production as an affect on price. This is done with more subtlety than BlOomberg Markets' affects.

In-system trade

• In System Trader makes in-system trading more realistic, with changing prices and quantities depending on local traffic.

Loans

• Black Monk Monastery allows you to take out loans
• First Finance OXP creates the loan that allowed you to buy your spaceship

Prices

• Commodity Markets OXP replaces the single price of each commodity with a buy/sell spread (of 4-10%).

Taxes

• Diplomancy OXP introduces taxes (and lots of other stuff too).

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