If there was something wrong in the past and it was already found time ago then there isn't other reason to bring the olive trade back than testing well the new system. If the problems were identified, analyzed and studied the back of the system shouldn't take so so so long. They had 6 months for that, that's why people want updates

The credit based economy has 2 main problems:

1-Since game is too old and there are a lot of credits out there people tend to try to sell their crews for real money, what is against NF rules but anyways people do it. For not to mention those sales are loo$$es for SDE.

2-Game is old and the amounts of credits floating out there increased the inflaction hardly. Inmense majority of the players can't buy anything because they can't pay those prices. You can risk yourself and try to buy it for $$/olives or you just can't buy because credit prices are too high. People need more options.

Bringing back the olive system will reduce the trades of crews for real money and would bring a more "sane" economy than the credit-based economy since olive is more stable coin than the credit. Number of olives in that market would be more or less stable number because olives are spent in items sooner or later (like in this event), on the other hand credits are not all spent in ships and inflaction will keep growing without limit.

But if they preffer to keep only the credit option for trade, well ... I don't see it a great idea neither for SDE who is loosing $$ or the players, who don't have options.

A real update about how are things going on this would be nice.

They need more credit sinks. The only real ones they have right now are bb6 (pretty good one), harbour investment (limited) and rentals (limited). There need to be more sinks, like points (rolling salors, classing sailors burning experts all sink points). I personally need points more than credits and see lots of high level players wanting to buy points. 

Having olive trade wont stabilise the credit inflation it will just lower the number of sailors being sold for credits and therefore probably increase prices more.

I personally would open up rentals to more players, admitedly the whole rental system needs improving to make the high tier rentals worth while but also by allowing anyone to rent the tier 1 rental would sink credits and the credits could go in to the harbour production (or a % of the credits) or 50% get sunk and 50% go to harbour owning fleet therefore providing further incentive to own a harbour.

An auction system would probably reduce prices greatly too but if they were to do that they would've done it originally. 

Oh the other option is people could level there own sailors rather than buy, that is affordable for anyone. 

CAPS LOCK

Already 6 months whith premium trade down -.-"

Any news?

Excluding the storage accounts of people posting here, its pretty simple what is going on.

Sde don't care. They aren't fixing things. They probably have a bunch of "new content" that has been created over the last few years and are releasing it to keep people having hope.

They don't even run NFNA. They get volunteers to do it.