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EARTHDATE: September 21, 2008

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MYSTERIES OF THE PLANETARY EXCHANGE

by Jezz

Fellow Fedders, I recently joined the throng of Planet Owners here in Federation Space and have embarked upon a journey down that well trodden path in a quest to understand the workings of the planetary exchange. I read the manual... several times. I read the logs of the economics classes given by some of the most venerated characters. I even delved into the posts on the FLUB boards.

There is a veritable wealth of information contained in those writings and I have to say that the first thing that struck me was that there is no hard and fast right way to manage your exchange. There are good ways to make groats if you want to do the majority of hauling yourself. There are other good ways to make groats if you would like other people to trade on your planet. There are ways to make mega-groats for your factory owners and ways to make them lose groats on their factories. There are even good ways to lose groats from your treasury if you work particularly hard at it. But by far the easiest thing to do with your exchange is make nothing and lose nothing by doing nothing.

That said, over the next few weeks it is my intention to publish some basic explanations of just what is going on in your exchange when you change things like spreads and stockpiles. I apologize for not having this explanation ready after one week as a planet owner but I can assure you that many groats are being burned on the altar of enlightenment and I felt I needed an independent auditor to check the results I've achieved so far. With a little luck, I'll be able to publish the results before the population of Ritual decide they need a Jezz sacrifice to appease the Gods of Profit and throw me onto the pyre along with the groats.

To those who already understand everything about their exchange... Thank you for your hard work and the sharing of knowledge. To those who need a little help... Watch this space.


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