It shows the current price but doesn't take into account the bulk sales tax (neither do any of the third-party tools, although they do tell you the demand so you can guess if it will be applied).Exactly, nice explained... especially the frustrating part
To add something - afaik the galaxy map shows only your own last price?! So, if you've visited the station months ago, it will still show the old, very wrong price. Correct me, if i'm wrong.
In game tools to find sell location
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Exactly, nice explained... especially the frustrating part
To add something - afaik the galaxy map shows only your own last price?! So, if you've visited the station months ago, it will still show the old, very wrong price. Correct me, if i'm wrong.
I thought that the in-game showed you the current prices for stations (or systems?) you have visited within the past four weeks - is that wrong?
It isn't your own data, I can get pricing from carriers that I've neer visited. I don't know what it uses but like the OP describes about 3rd party tools at best it's indicative, you need to dock to be sure.Exactly, nice explained... especially the frustrating part
To add something - afaik the galaxy map shows only your own last price?! So, if you've visited the station months ago, it will still show the old, very wrong price. Correct me, if i'm wrong.
This is an excellent point, time spent finding that best price has to be weighed against how much more mining (or whatever) you could be doing. That's usually the motivation behind my 'good enough' approach.
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Thanks for your answers - that's all why the in-game tools are quite obscure to me (and probably many others) and every time i used it, i've ended with a total different price at the station, so i stay at Inara. However it would be nice, not to leave the game, just for a short buy/sell.
Thanks for your answers - that's all why the in-game tools are quite obscure to me (and probably many others) and every time i used it, i've ended with a total different price at the station, so i stay at Inara. However it would be nice, not to leave the game, just for a short buy/sell.
The only way you'll find that out is if you make that video or explain it here. I have no idea how to get good prices in game beyond checking system states, and would be very interested if you've found a simple solution.
Use galaxy map commodity filter to select the thing you want to sell, pick the blue(?) imports filter, pick a nearby system, step through the various markets in that system, plot a route to the one with the best price? (not sure I've done it in Odyssey so the UI may have changed a tad). As I recall it’s also worth when you get there looking at the suggested alternatives in the commodities screen (although iirc these can sometimes send you round in circles).
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Sorry I dont know how to quote…
- Self promoting?
I started a YT channel in Italian becouse there arent good YTubers in Italian and being a verry dedicated person that watched tons of YT video (obsidian, DTEastro, Yamics, Hawkes Gaming ecc..) realized that a lot of info in italian was wrong and not well explained.. so since I love this game and knowing for fact that nothing like this will ever be created again and having friends that dont speak English I decided to try to make the effort of doing tutorials for does that realy like space games and cant play Elite for the language issue. Belive me when I say that is not easy to start make video on YT especialy for ED…. So many tecnical things that you dont even know where to start!
So since Im quite Hiped even if my vid get 50 views with someone repling to me and making congrats.. Yes, If I noticed somthing that its not known at the majority of the ED community then I would appreciate some credit THANX.
The market on the galaxy map is accurate.
You whent close to the answer but didnt actualy said whats in my point.
I play ED since lounch on PS4, I love mining and I love being able to explore.. I realy dont like having to relay on 3rd party tools becouse is like cheating… so on the years I always search and ask if there is a way to find selling location without using 3rd party tools but invane… nobody ever give me the answer that make possible to use ingame tools without having a headache.
The answer is verry simple but no one actualy said it in this thread.. you whent close but didnt said it.
I whant to improve my tecnique to be 100% sure then (if its not against terms of service) I will post the link to the video.
Its so simple that I dought my self… but I never noticed… and since no one here actualy responded accuratly maby I wasnt the only not realizing.
If you are curius be patient a few days and I will show you..
- Self promoting?
I started a YT channel in Italian becouse there arent good YTubers in Italian and being a verry dedicated person that watched tons of YT video (obsidian, DTEastro, Yamics, Hawkes Gaming ecc..) realized that a lot of info in italian was wrong and not well explained.. so since I love this game and knowing for fact that nothing like this will ever be created again and having friends that dont speak English I decided to try to make the effort of doing tutorials for does that realy like space games and cant play Elite for the language issue. Belive me when I say that is not easy to start make video on YT especialy for ED…. So many tecnical things that you dont even know where to start!
So since Im quite Hiped even if my vid get 50 views with someone repling to me and making congrats.. Yes, If I noticed somthing that its not known at the majority of the ED community then I would appreciate some credit THANX.
The market on the galaxy map is accurate.
You whent close to the answer but didnt actualy said whats in my point.
I play ED since lounch on PS4, I love mining and I love being able to explore.. I realy dont like having to relay on 3rd party tools becouse is like cheating… so on the years I always search and ask if there is a way to find selling location without using 3rd party tools but invane… nobody ever give me the answer that make possible to use ingame tools without having a headache.
The answer is verry simple but no one actualy said it in this thread.. you whent close but didnt said it.
I whant to improve my tecnique to be 100% sure then (if its not against terms of service) I will post the link to the video.
Its so simple that I dought my self… but I never noticed… and since no one here actualy responded accuratly maby I wasnt the only not realizing.
If you are curius be patient a few days and I will show you..
Looking forward to it.
I'd be happy to lose my bet. I'm just not a fan of bait and switch.
Me too. Good tho the out of game tools are I always felt like Frontier's reworking of all the galaxy commodity filter stuff (and the corresponding filters in the actual commodity market screen) never got adequately explained by anyone (not even the likes of Exigeous or Down To Earth Astronomy) so I always felt like perhaps I was just missing a trick. Really hope you've found it.
The in-game map could be 100% accurate (and have a much better UI!) and people still wouldn't use it since it requires either visiting the stations or scanning the system's nav beacon before you can see their prices (and it doesn't show demand). Sorry to say whatever your revelation is, virtually nobody will use it (because people are lazy).
For core mining, EDDB is my resource. I love third party tools. Perhaps because other games I enjoy like EVE have so many useful ones, and I have come to regard them over time as extensions of gameworlds. They're made with love, you know?
I find a system with a recently reported high price for whatever I'm busting 'roids for, click over to "Bodies" to find a local ring so that I don't need to system hop. If the system doesn't have one, I just move to the next one on the list until I find one. Then it's off to the ring and back to the station for easy money.
I get that there are purists out there who want everything contained within the game and who consider external resources to be lazy at best and, at worst, a form of cheating, but I never felt that way about them. A resource is a resource. If it's helpful and engaging, I use it.
What's really unfortunate is that I can't think of a single instance where a developer openly purchased or otherwise integrated a third party tool into their game. It just isn't done, either for technical or legal reasons, and that's a shame.
And what is this mysterious travel technique? I am very interested!
The point is - the OP makes a weird riddle out of his discovery. Others explained how external and internal tools works. Overall most people, including Northpin, are very helpful to each other and no one (ok, the most players) keeps something as a secret, if it could help the community.
Also me and others doubt, that someone discovered any new game breaking mechanic, especially in a big part of the game - trading.
But if so - he will be the hero of the day, i swear!
If you want, look for the topic in my messages, it's from a long time ago and I'm not interested in telling you about it, I'm sure they will entertain your afternoon
And what is this mysterious travel technique? I am very interested!
The point is - the OP makes a weird riddle out of his discovery. Others explained how external and internal tools works. Overall most people, including Northpin, are very helpful to each other and no one (ok, the most players) keeps something as a secret, if it could help the community.
Also me and others doubt, that someone discovered any new game breaking mechanic, especially in a big part of the game - trading.
But if so - he will be the hero of the day, i swear!
and repeat that it was not a secret, the other users simply said: "this is not how to play", lol. There were no secrets and I'm not hiding anything, lol, I just started to get to places faster and they didn't because i dont know
oh boy,I showed it back in the day and you can look it up, I just know that I was about 10 seconds faster than a bukyball champion, I'm not interested, today, show you nothing
There is no match in the satisfaction you get..
Use 3rd PT to find a tripple painite hot spot VS going 2k LY with FleetCarier to explore a nebula to search YOUR PERSONAL triple hot spot.
Once full and going back to the bouble have your own Market Network to sell your goods…
You remember “The Egg”? (Quad sub surface diamond asteroid) I whent, I found my own triple diamond hot spot, and my private “Egg” use planet/hotspots to triangulate the location to be able to find it again… SATISFACTION!
10 seconds? That is th big discovery? I have watched vids of youtubers showing how to shave that kind of time off runs to stations so as to get the most runs per hour in.
Please post a link to your previous post detailing the subject to save everyone the aggregated time searching individually.
Steve
Hey man, it's awesome that you enjoy the hunt. Don't get me wrong, if that's your thing, that's fantastic. I personally do not find that process satisfying. What satisfies me is efficiency and watching my credit balance skyrocket in short order so that I can get back to combat, exploration and engineering racers without having to worry about being able to afford anything I want along the way.
But this is all just preference and playstyle.