Oh, also note that as you buy a resource (say gold) from one extraction system, it reduces their supply, and the price drives up. When you sell it in a high tech system, their demand reduces, so they will start to pay less for it. So prices are dynamic. The more people know about a particular trade route and use it, the more limited the supply, the more satiated the demand, the higher the prices to buy, and the lower the prices to sell, and overall the less profits earned. So it is really in the interest of the trader to find trade routes other players don't frequent so they can maximize their profits.
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