Anyone else ditching trade tools to look for trade routes on the fringe of civilized space?
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Puzzling for a high profit trade route always seems such a appealing prospect to me, untill I got to the 3rd station and have to write all the prices down with pen and paper. Being me, by then, it has become a total mess. I cannot understand why the galaxy map doesn't have an extra option which shows prices from your last visit. Or even from your last visit given it was in the last 24 hours and you actually accessed the market place.
Anyway, good to hear someone's having fun!
Do like I do, make a screenshot! Or even better, take a photo with your mobile phone!
Yeah, finally found a good stable route last night I can milk without affecting the supply. 1200 profit per ton one way and 1500 the other.
Thats good!
I found one of these about a week ago, last night it finally started to deplete as more and more players found the same route, enjoy it while you can.Yeah, finally found a good stable route last night I can milk without affecting the supply. 1200 profit per ton one way and 1500 the other.
Never did see the point of using external tools as a shortcut in a game that's all about exploration (and not just in the most obvious sense of the word). First thing I did when I started trading a few days ago: Headed for the outskirts.
Yes, it does get a bit pencil&paper-heavy, but that makes it feel more like you're actually a local trader (rather than a galactic broker). And it gives you the impetus to occasionally switch up your locations because you always have the feeling that there could be a better route just in the next system.
They have dynamically set the prices of commodities outside of commonly used space to make lousy profits. This forces traders to stay close to commonly known and used systems. I have seen over the last 3-4 weeks trade profits drop, this seems to be a trend that FD is pushing to keep you playing longer to achieve your goals.
I would like to see luxury traders come back, they where more enjoyable, had more purpose, and did the community more good than these community goals ever will..
I would like to see luxury traders come back, they where more enjoyable, had more purpose, and did the community more good than these community goals ever will..
Puzzling for a high profit trade route always seems such a appealing prospect to me, untill I got to the 3rd station and have to write all the prices down with pen and paper. Being me, by then, it has become a total mess. I cannot understand why the galaxy map doesn't have an extra option which shows prices from your last visit. Or even from your last visit given it was in the last 24 hours and you actually accessed the market place.
Anyway, good to hear someone's having fun!
Even worse, I went from system A to system B last night, clicked back onto system A in the galaxy map and the system data was red, asking me whether I wanted to buy the system data.
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I ... I just ...
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I never thought of that. And I'm an explorer more snapshot happy than a Japanese tourist on Red Bull.
Thanks for making me feel incredibly neutron star dense!
Apologies to any Japanese Tourist who was offended by my cheap stereotyping. I'll get me cloggs and tulips and will go back into me windmill to fend off Spaniards on donkeys
Thanks for the chuckles!
I've never bothered with trading tools or writing anything down, seemed more trouble than they were worth. My tactic has just been to find a large starport with a high demand for precious metals and seeing what they have on sale. I then trot around to every extraction economy within 1-2 jumps and look for one that'll buy whatever my chosen starport is offering. Doing it in a ship that can land on outposts leaves a lot of opportunity to pick up the missed gems even on heavily trafficked trade routes. I know if a system has a lot of T9s travelling through it but very few Asps or T6s, I'm likely to find an outpost nearby that's stocked with neglected palladium. Then I have my simple 1-2 jump back and forth route that makes ~250,000cr per round trip in an Asp, milk it until the profit per ton falls below 1000, and move on to the next one.
To be honest when I started trading I thought it would have taken more skill and detective work than this, but whatever, I wanted a licence to print money and that's exactly what I got.
To be honest when I started trading I thought it would have taken more skill and detective work than this, but whatever, I wanted a licence to print money and that's exactly what I got.
You missed references to being stoned and something about small boys and fingers in dykes.
I'm currently about 250LY from Lave, have been for some time and the trade routes are pretty quiet here, maybe no more than half a dozen other players.
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Really? Can you link one? That would be awesome, I hate pen and paper!
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Yeah I've never used the old scraped or the new crowdsourced info. I haven't traded much but found one little loop I liked a lot, - and the hunt was pretty fun.
Plus I know I'd never be to contribute info to a trading tool, which doesn't make me feel like I've a right to use one.
Anyway I used a tablet with the paid version of the 'simplemind' mind mapping tool to keep track of everything as I assembled the route. Dragging bubbles around and getting all the crosslinks set up with distances and profits per/t and color coding and christ, - it ain't efficient but its already beautiful.
Looking forward to it looking like a tangled mess as I really get trading later on.
I use this one and only note supply and demand not prices, since I can normally judge profits with Mk 1 Eyeball based on the supply and demand value and the base cost of the commodity.
Edit: It also takes me less than a minute or two to add a station.
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I had a great little route all to my self and was coining it in with my Clipper. Then a big fat Anaconda came in and started spamming the route hovering up all the cheap gold and palladium. Grrr.
Now the stock has dropped and prices risen, looks like I will be looking for a new run.
Never use tools, as a previous poster said, MK1 eyeball and experience to know what is value in a commodity.
Now the stock has dropped and prices risen, looks like I will be looking for a new run.
Never use tools, as a previous poster said, MK1 eyeball and experience to know what is value in a commodity.
On second thought: If I ever start pirating I'm definitely going to start using the trade tools
If you know your way around a command line, TradeDangerous is one of the best out there for standalone mode.
