Week 7 Session: Trade Route Planning Workshop

Plan a cargo run across a simplified risk/reward map, then price it the way an insurance market would have to.

12 April 2027

Before the session#

Read Week 7’s lecture on logistics and frontier economics. Bring nothing — the map and the risk data are provided.

In the session#

Working from a simplified risk/reward map (loosely modelled on a null-sec-style frontier), plan a cargo run: what to carry, which route to take, and how much risk that route actually represents. Then work out what an insurance market would charge to cover that run, and compare it against the cargo’s expected profit.

• 10 minutes: introduction to the map and its risk zones
• 25 minutes: route planning in small groups
• 15 minutes: compare routes and insurance prices across groups

Afterwards#

There’s no assessment tied directly to this session — it’s here to build intuition for risk-as-cost before Week 9’s comparative teardown, where that intuition gets applied across three different games at once.