>As a general request, could people who are running contracts and who feel like sharing information let me know the following: Which province are you running contracts, approximately how much profit is generated from 1 hour of contract running (projected or actual), what is your trading/circle, and approximate time to lock Trading? Again, without promising anything, I am interested in gathering data to ascertain whether we should adjust some numbers.

Bit late to this party, as I was out while this was discussed. Reading back through these posts, the first thing that jumped out at me, was that doing contracts in P5 I have never once locked trading with my caravan. Neither before the route changes nor after. In fact, at this point I will only run contracts if I have a gem pouch to sell first, and have at least 3-4+ hours available to run routes afterwards. Without selling a pouch first, my trading experience will usually clear out between outposts no matter which route sequence I use. I haven't run contracts in a couple weeks now, but I'm pretty sure I was making between 3-5 plat dokora per hour on average. Will have to track this again the next time I have a chance to run routes. Wasn't running the routes for coin, so never really fully tracked the profit portion. This is with a circle 60 kaldar trader, 30 charisma, 325 trading.

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Agreed with Sortney: As a 103 level trader, I didn't run contracts for quite an hour, but I did get to (10-35) in trading. I probably could have locked if I sold gem pouches and bundles, but I wanted to beat up a few critters.

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