Carrack Volante, full blue +10 with 5 T4 pirate parrots, 65 euro skin, and weight crystal I get just above 21k LT
That is just enough to carry 10 innocent sailors and do 3x6 T5 runs.
Doing so, leaves me with 2 empty inventory slots in my ship, aka it's nearly entirely full. So I wouldn't be able to do a 4th T5 run even if I had the LT for it.
Obviously this is an exception though because every other trade tier is stackable, so inventory slots is neglectable.
But yeah this just comes to show that you need a maxed out ship and a thick ass wallet to be able to efficiently barter.
Add to your wallet statement that 1/3 of bartering is behind the value pack paywall. That needs to be removed from VP...
I wouldnt mind getting more weight on ships but atm, i don't think it really is a problem.
i still can do my margoria coin run + sailies + rest of parley in 1h20.
i still can do silver runs in 45mins (avoiding margoria).
time is the same (+/- 5mins) if i use volante or valor or advance.
ofc, this is fast because i'm used to it and have good ships and sailors. But we must talk endgame. if begining is too easy, i don't mind, but makes end game completely busted (which i would love).
More weight = faster barter. is it really waht barter needs? imho, no! We need more barter and that it brings more income.
i think the buff barter needs is the end of parley (or at least more parley / or greater reduction of parley with lifeskill/mastery level), more windows of bartering, deleting the CD on refresh, and more value to barter items that we sell.
Atm a silver run is 12 barter points of 6x7.5m items = 540m. It should be 10m per item making the max 720m.
And what happens when you like bartering but are done in 1h30? This is the only activity that has a limit on it, when you're done, you're done. no more.