Seriously? You just had two pages about this in the last week. It's been proven time and time again. 5/5/5/4/3/3 is the best setup. Stop saying otherwise. 555433 is best overall before you max port and ship, but after that point, three merchants are hardly ever if at all needed. I'd also like for someone to tell me a reason to have more than 3 ox other than getting an extra 200 jod bonus in dual while still being able to do a triple for trade goods, because, as far as i can tell, you never need more than 3 ox for two relatively rare missions that you are not likely to have two at a time(for which you'd need 6, anyway). Actually, with the totem upgrade, I get trade good voyages in my Standard voyage tab with startling frequency. I don't think 3 Merchants is excessive.