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Newcomer / Intro Is there a tool I can use to find prices....
- Thread starter barnett71
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... because you can't buy stuff like that - you can only obtain it by mining or by salvaging containers of it.
.... Plus - yes you can see how far away a destination is - it is the rightmost column on the EDDB results page of places that want to buy your stuff (or that sells other types of stuff).
... because you can't buy stuff like that - you can only obtain it by mining or by salvaging containers of it.
.... Plus - yes you can see how far away a destination is - it is the rightmost column on the EDDB results page of places that want to buy your stuff (or that sells other types of stuff).
I selected platinum as a metal to sell. It takes you to the sell page. Top box shows average price and the lot. Second box down is where you plug in your current system. I put in Aphra since that's my home and I'm usually there. Selected the Sell option, then find stations. It gives you two lists... closest stations and systems with the distance to get there and highest selling location but that does not give the distance from your current location so I can see the problem.
If you have an Inara account you can import your journal so it has good info on your current location then copy and paste the system name in the search star system box. It'll bring up a screen that shows your distance from you to there. Two 3rd party tools but it's quick and gets the job done and Inara also shows what state the system is in so that might be more helpful information to have before deciding to go there with a hold full of high value stuff. This is what I'd do unless there is a better tool to use.
If you have an Inara account you can import your journal so it has good info on your current location then copy and paste the system name in the search star system box. It'll bring up a screen that shows your distance from you to there. Two 3rd party tools but it's quick and gets the job done and Inara also shows what state the system is in so that might be more helpful information to have before deciding to go there with a hold full of high value stuff. This is what I'd do unless there is a better tool to use.
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I don't know what you are using because the EDDB page is as I posted above and you can clearly see the distance from current system in the rightmost column.
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Perhaps he's not filing in his current system as reference point?
Those are the closest stations. There is another grouping of stations were the commodity sells for the highest price below that one and I didn't see any distances in that one. I just plugged in gold, it took me to the next page, I put in my location and sell, clicked on find stations and yep, the first grouping gave me the closest and a distance. There were two more groupings that didn't give distances. I think the OP is wanting maximum return so was looking for where the best sell price is. If you are lucky it'll be listed in the closest stations grouping, otherwise you gotta go hunt for the distance.
This is the third grouping of stations with the highest sell prices. They don't give distances here for some reason. If you use Gold and the Aphra system as your commodity and your location you'll see that the first station will be listed way up top as the highest sell price and the first one listed in the third grouping but it's not listed in the closest stations.
OK the issue is you are not using the "Find Commodity" page. Use the one I showed above https://eddb.io/trade/commodity and not the Commodities List (https://eddb.io/commodity) .
Yeah, I clicked on commodities first, then went to gold and then input my location and sell then find stations. That link you posted only gives you the closest stations to your location. If you go thru the commodities list first like I did it immediately gives you the highest sell location in the top bar, then the closest stations grouping and then another grouping starting with the highest sell market gradually dropping in price. Amazing amount of information to find in that site. I guess you have to decide if you want to sell relatively close to your location or possibly travel half way across the bubble to make a little more.
Greed is a mortal sin isn't it?
Thrudds used to be great for this (shame it went offline) but EDDB does restrict the return on that search to one page, I don't know why.
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Greed is a mortal sin isn't it?
Thrudds used to be great for this (shame it went offline) but EDDB does restrict the return on that search to one page, I don't know why.
Maybe because otherwise it would have to process several hundred thousand database queries per search?
Pretty simple to make this decision - compute the profit per jump for all alternatives - that one with the highest profit per jump is then likely to be the best. There might be other things to consider, like security issues or other measures, which might influence this decision - but for a first estimation, what is better, this is not a bad way to do it.
And with the amount of jumps you might eventually want to consider to add the amount of jumps back to where you want to be as well - if there are no other things to do at the destinations, these jumps back should be taken into consideration as well.
Well, and with profit per jump you have a measure to decide if you should do what you currently do or if something else wouldn't be a better alternative with more profit per jump. Basically because profit/jump gives the relation "time is money"a value.
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Truer words were never spoken.
But for EDDB to calculate profit per jump it would need to know your ship details such as jump range with proposed cargo onboard fuel capacity presence of a fuel scoop etc then plot your course, that seems to be more the job of a pure trading tool does the Trade Computer Extension or one of the other external tools do that? Profit per Ly would be a lot easier.
Personaly when I want to find places further away than where EDDB shows I change my location system.
Oh my, where are the times where people could do something like this approximately in mind - nothing is required there, like you see 2.3M payout, you would have split it into 2 runs - which means 3 legs - approx. 750k per jump without to use a calculator, doesn't have to be much more precise and requires no other tool than a brain and can be done in a second. So what do you need a tool for here - you have different offers and you just do an approximate math in your mind - quick and easy. Over time you do not even have to do the math anymore, you get a feeling for it and just looking at offers similar to those you had before will help you to make the decision by experience instead of math.
Profit per ly is crap - because it takes you about the same time to do a jump, regardless if that is 8ly or 40ly (because the hyperjump sequence takes as long as is required to load the next system - it's an animated loading screen actually) - and time is money. Ok, one would eventually have to pay attention to how far the destination is from it's sun - something 39ls away is quickly reached, with 390,000ls that takes like 15 minutes.
And just a little pun - if you would really want to know what is better, you would as well have to take opportunity costs for using tools instead to do missions into account as well. But this is daisy cutter economics. For practical purposes a quick and fast approx. math done in mind is the quickest and good enough to make a decision - a better decision which takes eventually longer might be worse, when you take opportunity costs into account - like what could you have earned in that time where you used that tool - these are actual costs, opportunity costs.
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Maybe because otherwise it would have to process several hundred thousand database queries per search?
Quite true, although in other pages there exits options to limit searches (bodies page for example). Thrudds used to produce multiple pages of results and never seemed particularly slow - I really do miss that site.
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