How far to travel before selling rares?

[Ackoman]

Has the distance increased? I just travelled around 180 ly and made a wopping loss!

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Re-log the plateau is about 160ly but there's a known bug that sometimes shows a loss. Re-logging fixes it.

 

[Ackoman]

Ok thanks - too late now, but I'll know for next time....

 

[CMDR Ellegon]

Re-log the plateau is about 160ly but there's a known bug that sometimes shows a loss. Re-logging fixes it.

I have only seen this bug at the first stop of a trade route (after buying a rare). I.e.: Sothis Gold at first stop in the bubble: zero profit, small loss even. From the second stop onwards, 22k profit per ton. Did not know that logging fixes this, thanks.

 

[DaveB]

Yeah, profit peaks from about 120ly to 160ly, go any further than that and you won't make any extra.

If you're at that kind of difference and showing a loss, it's a bug. Just relog.

 

[X-Terminator]

How can FD have released the game in this state? Missions are again broken by nerfing the payout and availability, plus this! I mean come on FD, you bring out a new game role of Passengers and seriously have ruined other things that worked!
You must listen and make OPEN to be DAMAGES ONLY for PvP because you broke that too by the OP weapons.

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

The problem with this is usually due to 3rd party tools running.

 

[CMDR Ellegon]

The problem with this is usually due to 3rd party tools running.

I have no third party tool running, except Shadowplay (which really shouldn't have any effect on prices in ED). I still see the bug as described in my previous post.

 

[Ackoman]

The problem with this is usually due to 3rd party tools running.

To be fair, I had just downloaded and was running ED Market Connector.........

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

That is one known to cause this problem.
No idea about CMDR Ellegon, you might need to send some logs to FD.

 

[GJ51]

If I remember correctly, 2X the avg. selling price listed on the commodities screen is about max profit.

120 - 160 LY's away from purchase point.

 

[DNYI]

For earlier threads, the profit curve for rares is an erf() function (error function) or logistic function depending on how you want to model it. It is an S shaped curve (sigmoid curve). After 180 to 220 light-years the curve will have reached the point where further travel will not give you any statistically significant gains, as it is nearing the maximum profit horizontal asymptote. See this post for details: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...vian-Brandy?highlight=quest+for+lavian+brandy

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

For earlier threads, the profit curve for rares is an erf() function (error function) or logistic function depending on how you want to model it. It is an S shaped curve (sigmoid curve). After 180 to 220 light-years the curve will have reached the point where further travel will not give you any statistically significant gains, as it is nearing the maximum profit horizontal asymptote. See this post for details: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...vian-Brandy?highlight=quest+for+lavian+brandy

Much past 170ly and the gain is so little you won't notice the difference.

 

[Ackoman]

If I remember correctly, 2X the avg. selling price listed on the commodities screen is about max profit.

120 - 160 LY's away from purchase point.

OK. The prices I was seeing were about a 1/10th of the galactic average.