Hello, I will try and keep this short but I want to explain where I am confused.
Last night, after the update lag had settled down, I went out in my Type-7 to haul Tritium after I saw on EDDB that it was selling for ~5300 at a station near my home. The supply on EDDB showed 274, so I was skeptical that another player might go pick it up before I got there, but I made the trip anyway and was pleased to see that the station had 274 units available. One jump away, I was selling those 274 units for 53,000 each. I've never made a profit like that. It was amazing. I went back to the original station and, to my delight, another 274 units of Tritium were available. This time I bought them and hauled them a little further, to a station paying 63,000 per unit. I made something like 17 million on that trip. Then, a little further in another direction, I saw a station with a supply of 2800. I was getting ready to do some combat missions so I told my friend who was one jump away, he went and confirmed that yes, they were that price at that supply. He bought them and hauled them in his AspX for 63000 credits per unit as well.
While travelling, I tried to make sense of the commodities board. I use EDDB as well as the in-game tools, but I do not understand how supply works. Demand seems fairly straightforward--you supply 300 units of Silver and the demand goes down by 300 until it reaches 0, at which time the station will pay less for the goods. Or it scales on the way down to 0, bottoming out at 0. I guess I don't really know how demand works either.
This morning I logged on to see that both the 274 supply and the 2800 supply station are no longer listed on EDDB--it seems nowhere is selling for less than 40k. My in-game market tools agree with this information.
So my questions are as follows:
Last night, after the update lag had settled down, I went out in my Type-7 to haul Tritium after I saw on EDDB that it was selling for ~5300 at a station near my home. The supply on EDDB showed 274, so I was skeptical that another player might go pick it up before I got there, but I made the trip anyway and was pleased to see that the station had 274 units available. One jump away, I was selling those 274 units for 53,000 each. I've never made a profit like that. It was amazing. I went back to the original station and, to my delight, another 274 units of Tritium were available. This time I bought them and hauled them a little further, to a station paying 63,000 per unit. I made something like 17 million on that trip. Then, a little further in another direction, I saw a station with a supply of 2800. I was getting ready to do some combat missions so I told my friend who was one jump away, he went and confirmed that yes, they were that price at that supply. He bought them and hauled them in his AspX for 63000 credits per unit as well.
While travelling, I tried to make sense of the commodities board. I use EDDB as well as the in-game tools, but I do not understand how supply works. Demand seems fairly straightforward--you supply 300 units of Silver and the demand goes down by 300 until it reaches 0, at which time the station will pay less for the goods. Or it scales on the way down to 0, bottoming out at 0. I guess I don't really know how demand works either.
This morning I logged on to see that both the 274 supply and the 2800 supply station are no longer listed on EDDB--it seems nowhere is selling for less than 40k. My in-game market tools agree with this information.
So my questions are as follows:
- Why did the 274 supply refresh when I went back to the station? If that happens, why do some stations have supplies of over 100,000?
- If supply dictates price, how did a 274 supply station have Tritium for 5000 credits, when the 139,000 supply station was charging 40k? I've seen a similar thing with Polymers selling for 60 units at some stations, but thousands of units at other--similar supply.
- Are the market boards changing live, as all pilots interact with them, or are they refreshing at specific intervals? When I see demand drop, is that because I got there at the time of a server tick, or because it updates as I offload cargo?
- Is it possible that stations ARE selling Tritium for 5000, and it's just that nobody has entered the station using one of the EDDB API tools to update the website?
- If 4 is yes, is there a reason I would want to close E
Market Connector and avoid letting other pilots know, or will I be unaffected by others racing to a super cheap system?
