Rare Commodities List!
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Im wondering if the system is fully explored, did you pop your Discovery Scanner to see if any other stellar bodies showed up?
Looks like I've been doing the same as you! Oh well it good to double check. I've posted on list Op.
BTW I used link from this post to find systems:
I think poster put up the wrong link but this one is also very useful!
Last for tonight for sure:
HIP 41181
Andersson Station (536714Ls)
HIP Proto-Squid
Price: 1488 cr
Supply: 53t
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HIP 41181
Andersson Station (536714Ls)
HIP Proto-Squid
Price: 1488 cr
Supply: 53t
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I think you guys are full of it on this 'rare' stuff!
I flew about 130 ly one way. Picked up 16 tons of the replicant animals from Xihe. Course, now my poor hauler has half it's jump range. Oops. So, I am working my way back, getting extremely frustrated with the extremely limited galaxy map. (It could at least keep a 'Recently Searched For' list in the drop down, eh?) Kept running into dead ends, having to back track, fighting off a million interdiction attempts. Finally sold half the stuff off, dumped my shields and gun (and the next jump got me interdicted, of course, one of the few times I managed to not evade, and damn near got spaced) and took me all damn night to get back home. Flew in a massive spiral, essentially.
For a 8K profit.
Per the 'galaxy average' that should have been closer to 40K! I made about 26K off scanning each star as I entered all those systems. Could have done that faster and safer in my Eagle, and netted a few bounties as well.
So, for 260+++ Ly Round trip, that ain't very cool. Took me....let's see....about 5.5 hours real time to do all that.
I think I'll just stick with doing the missions in my own neighborhood. They usually net me around 20-30K an hour. Or, take my Eagle and explore and bounty hunt instead.
I flew about 130 ly one way. Picked up 16 tons of the replicant animals from Xihe. Course, now my poor hauler has half it's jump range. Oops. So, I am working my way back, getting extremely frustrated with the extremely limited galaxy map. (It could at least keep a 'Recently Searched For' list in the drop down, eh?) Kept running into dead ends, having to back track, fighting off a million interdiction attempts. Finally sold half the stuff off, dumped my shields and gun (and the next jump got me interdicted, of course, one of the few times I managed to not evade, and damn near got spaced) and took me all damn night to get back home. Flew in a massive spiral, essentially.
For a 8K profit.
Per the 'galaxy average' that should have been closer to 40K! I made about 26K off scanning each star as I entered all those systems. Could have done that faster and safer in my Eagle, and netted a few bounties as well.
So, for 260+++ Ly Round trip, that ain't very cool. Took me....let's see....about 5.5 hours real time to do all that.
I think I'll just stick with doing the missions in my own neighborhood. They usually net me around 20-30K an hour. Or, take my Eagle and explore and bounty hunt instead.
Y U Mad Bro?
Yeah, you need to have at least 15 LY laden (see outfitting screen). It's only easy once you've figured out a route. It does work, I've made 1.5M profit runs, but if you read my posts here, I've mucked around because the distance thing isn't as advertised.
Just get better stuff on your ship, and you should be able to do this. TBH, doing normal trade runs is as profitable if you find a good route, but this is just less boring because you don't SC as much.
Plus you get to visit a ton of different systems. I finally got to collect on all those Empire, and Alliance bounty vouchers I had piling up. If you decide to sacrifice some cargo space for exploration equipment, you can make a few bucks off that as well (although not as much as you would with cargo space), and see lots of sites.
Whow. Umbrellas. Thats a cool one.
If I could choose between an Oculus Rift and a Swaine Adeney Brigg umbrella I'd actually think about it for a few seconds.
Fantastic work by everyone!
I've put together a very rudimentary form on my trade tool to help work out where to take rare trade items. It simply lets you see the distance, location and allegiance of the other trade items so it's easy to work out a return trip. It's on the 'Rare Trade' tab at http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/
I've put together a very rudimentary form on my trade tool to help work out where to take rare trade items. It simply lets you see the distance, location and allegiance of the other trade items so it's easy to work out a return trip. It's on the 'Rare Trade' tab at http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/
Awesome Thrudd!!!
Is therea possibility to include a jump calculator as well?
(select your jump range and show the number of jumps needed behind every item/destination)
i.e.:
First step: Select rare-item
Second step: Select jump range
Third step: See result as below
| Distance | Return Trade Item | Location | Allegiance | Jumps |
| 66.32 ly | Rapa Bao Snake Skins | Rapa Bao (Flagg Gateway) | Empire | 15 |
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Thank you, i know about different route calculators, but i had something else in mind.
I was asking to have every information in one place, so depending from your location you will see if the desired trade route is far enough (profit) but maybe consists of too much jumps, so you are better off with a route where you loose a little profit but don't have that many jumps, without cross checking every single route by hand at another website, writing stuff down and having your own tables and spreadsheets.
Although i have no idea if this is hard to implement in terms of coding or needed source data.
Yeah I keep updating it though until the last unconfirmed is gone from that list - it saves me to go somewhere where it's already confirmed to not have anything interesting. The list is now shrinking quite rapidly. Tonight I'm going to do some systems in empire space as I'm really near there now.
It seems to me you are doing it wrong or I have misunderstood what you are trying to do. Only the distance between buy and sell station matters, not the distance you were flying. If you fly a circle and sell it near to the start station then its clear that you gain no profit, no matter how many light years you have crossed.
And the profit value is no line but a curve, so you can skip the galactic average for rare goods. They have a sweet spot around 140 LY. At half distance for example you do not get half value, you simply get nothing worth the effort. So if you are not crossing the optimal distance, normal trades can indeed be the better solution for you. And of course you need a FSD which provides 15 LY jump distance if you want to use that effective.
I made a good fortune out of it which I would not have made with normal trades with my current equipment.
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This is what I found also. Had to travel from Xihe to beyond He Bo to get 21,000 creds apiece for my companions.
At the around the halfway mark I would have been selling for about 10,000 creds per unit - I paid nearly 5,000 per unit.
So profit definitely increases at a greater rate the further you are prepared to travel.
Here's to extending those frontiers as quickly as possible
At the around the halfway mark I would have been selling for about 10,000 creds per unit - I paid nearly 5,000 per unit.
So profit definitely increases at a greater rate the further you are prepared to travel.
Here's to extending those frontiers as quickly as possible