Quavis

While I like the idea of trade hubs in principle, I think in the games current state, this would make the current problem with the wealth being monopolized by a few an even bigger problem. This is based on my understanding that trade goods refresh during maintenance. AI traders then move them around the rest of the day. It is the current reason the buying side of the trader is almost totally useless right now. Unless your looking at the tool right after maintenance, its very likely that the tool is wrong on whats available in any port (Your trade hubs would fix this part of the problem). However, it would also make it so you could buy out the high profit goods from all the surrounding ports from 1 spot, then move them at your leisure with a locked in higher margin per trip. Then anyone logging in later is out of luck and while is forced into less profitable runs. Large clans, or mega traders, would just keep a market alt int he trade hub (this would also likely lead to AH type bots that exist in most games), immediately buy up these items again as they are re-distributed by the AI. I think a better solution would just be to have the trader tool update much more often (hourly maybe?) with current inventories in ports. It would serve the same purpose with letting people be able to see whats currently available in each location, without being able to manipulate it without being there.