"In-System" Commodity Pricing?

evanevery

evanevery
I'm guessing commodity prices are all pretty similar within a particular system at any given time. IOW - All stations in a given system have the same pricing on commodities at the same time. (Within a few credits)

Can anyone confirm or refute this?

Basically, using 3rd party tools, I want to know if I can simply rely on the most current station price report from any given system to reflect the pricing for the entire system. IOW: If I'm looking at TWO very different station prices for a given system, the most current one is likely applicable to BOTH stations.

3rd party tools will often report "High Buy" or "High Sell" prices for very volatile commodities. But if I dig further, very often I can find MORE CURRENT prices at other stations in the same system. I'm pretty sure the most current price in a given system would basically apply to all stations, correct?

Yay or Nay?
 
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S~P

S
No, prices can vary in the same system as stations can be owned by different factions in the same system. And prices will be different depending on what state the factions currently have i.e. boom, outbreak etc.
 
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kpmop

K
What S~P said.

Also different stations can have different economies - I've traded between an industrial station and a high tech station in the same system and an agricultural and industrial in another...
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
It was the case back in FE2/FFE that there was a single, system wide price for commodities, which never changed. Which was always kind of odd; an "agricultural system" bought and sold agricultural things at every station in the system, not just the station orbiting the Earth-like.

The galactic economy in ED is far, far superior in this respect.
 

NecasekO

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As long as stations have same economy type (very common) and state / controlling faction (quite common), they will have very similar prices. They still have independent stock levels, so it can happen that one station goes out of stock and increases price of a certain commodity.

Even if the controlling faction is different, only some states and some commodities show significant pricing difference. But it definitely can happen, and some of these differences are quite extreme - e.g. recently I discovered that polymers can be bought for around 60 Cr/ton and sold for over 8000 Cr/ton in the correct combination of economy and state.
 
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