Newcomer / Intro Economics, who does it work. What turns what into what?

[Corinthas]

I have noticed for example terraforming seems to be a black hole, it produces only bio waste, consumes everything.

So has anyone noticed if there seems to be a "ingredients list" for manufacture? Say a industrial economy producing machinery, consume particular metals etc?

Or is it more general than that?

 

[The Land]

There is an out of date list here from a previous beta - I think it still holds true in a general sense though there are many exceptions.

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Goods

Note that goods aren't actually "transformed" in the game model, as far as anyone knows: more that certain economy types demand A and produce B but they still produce B is no A is supplied.

 

[FX2K]

I saw this posted some time ago, thought it was pretty cool...

Its a very large image (zoom in to see) as in dimensions not storage space...so I will post a link rather than embed it.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.muir/Traders.jpg


Edit: I don't have the source thread, I had to find it via google images.. so other than the url being nick.muir, not sure who (if on the forums) actually made it .