Market reset

[Diamond Dog]

I've noticed the market seems to be out of whack for the Gamma. I suppose my question is will things go back to 'normal' (not even sure what normal is) for the final release?

It just seems to me that extraction stations are buying metal/minerals not selling them, and refineries are selling metal minerals not demanding them. Now Maybe I got it backwards but it feels... wrong. You would assume that extraction economies have a surplus of metal/minerals not a huge demand for them. It's the traders than need to move them to the refineries.

It's like trying to sell logs to a lumber jack... instead of the sawmill.

Anyways, let me know what you think. I hope it was just an isolated incident.

 

[Arkku]

Could be that the idea is for miners to be able to sell what they've mined in the extraction system, and refinery economies have already had NPCs refine them. But you're right that it gets backwards if it gets profitable to move metals from a refinery to an extraction station.

 

[Diamond Dog]

Now not that I'm complaining as much as I'd like the Devs to give a heads up if these things will change during final release. As right now even the descriptions don't add up to where things should go. Most commodites will tell you what systems like their products... but so far nothing lines up.

Now, sure I CAN make a profit from selling items but it's NOT intuitive as it should be. I should not be selling fish to a marine world.

If they don't respond I guess I can wait a week to find out

 

[Draven Darken]

The extraction stations I have encountered seem to be both buying and selling metal and minerals, but at a low price. To my mind this makes perfect sense ... they are at the start of the chain where the miner bringing in the materials in the first place gets paid minimally for their effort, but gets the benefit of not having to travel as far to deliver the materials, so they can spend more time mining. The extraction station then sells at a somewhat higher (but still below the galactic average) price to get the materials transported away to someone who can use them, and then the price keeps going up later after all of the middle men (including those of us who are traders) have gotten involved. I feel that it works pretty well.

 

[_Flin_]

I am currently rather far out on the edge of the Alliance and wanted to mess around a bit. Just after selling a two hours of exploration data I took a look at the commodities market... well... no oppprtunities there at all.

Seems as if the NPC traders manage to fulfil all the needs of the system. It's an Industrial / Extraction system, and they pay for nothing more than 100Cr. above the galactic average. Will be close to impossible to work with this system. Seems as if I need to find another one.