On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:23:43 +1000, Alex Goodwin
<xxxxxx@multitel.com.au> wrote:

>How does having multiple economically-interesting worlds in a system
>affect system trade stats?

Given our discussion on IRC this morning, you indicated that the WTN is
a logarithm - that is, WTN of 6 represents ten times as much trade as
WTN of 5. Given that, and given the numbers for Id/III and Id/V in your
posting, Id/III has a shade over three times the trade of Id/V. That
means that the entire system trade is four times the trade of Id/V,
which would raise the system WTN to 6.6.

The real question is what the trade codes should be - my suggestion was
that if the two worlds were comparable, it might make sense for the
"external" trade codes to reflect both worlds (i.e., for the example at
hand, Cp Ag In Ri). I still think that that's sensible - but how to
decide "comparable" for this purpose? Is it a difference in WTN of less
than 1.0? less than 0.5?

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