So I decided to have another go at trading in rares.
Is this the best way to earn credits? No!
But there's more to the game than earning credits, and I find trading a lot more fun when I figure it all out myself, than just doing whatever EDDB.IO says is the current best trade.
The market caps of available tons of rares seem to have changed!
I picked up 66 tons of Altairian skins in one go. Altair-Solo orbiter used to have a 22 ton market cap.
And 72 tons of Pantaa prayer sticks, while this used to have a 36 ton market cap.
The market caps seem to have been doubled or tripled, so filling up the hold is a lot quicker than it used to be.
With a single cargohold of 208 tons in my python I can fill up the hold with just 4 jumps and earn 3.5 million Cr profit when I sell them at the required distance. So that's not bad at all.
Selling 208 tons of rares is just shy of instantly becoming allied to a ruling faction, so that's an added bonus.
But alas, my old notes on rares where never anywhere near complete, and are very much out of date.
The info on the Wiki and on Inara.cz is somewhat limited. The distance from Sol is nice to know, but how do you work out which system to visit next?
Cmdr Dragonic's old spreadsheet was quite the treasure (credit to him), but now out of date and missing 21 rare items.
So I've spent a full day of mucking about in excel, and I made a new excel sheet. With all 141 rare items, room for personal notes, and hopefully easily legible and easy to use.
This sheet is still very much a WORK IN PROGRESS. Here's a dropbox link, I will update the sheet as I go.
If you're interested in trading in rares, give this sheet a go. It's not perfect or finished. Some data is from the ED Wiki, some from Inara.cz, some from eddb.io, some from Cmdr Dragonic's spreadsheet, some from my own old notes. So things may be out of date or incomplete. I will update and make changes as I go.
Oh, great, another spreadsheet with rares ... woohoo ...
Yes! There are 2 things about my new sheet that I like.
First of all it can calculate the distance to all other systems from your current location, so you can find the next closest one. You just have to set the coordinates of your current location. If you're loading up on Onion Head in the Kappa Fornacis system, the sheet tells you that the Tanmark system (17,1 Ly) is the next closest system with rares.
Cmdr Dragonic's spreadsheet did this too, but in 120 columns. My spreadsheet uses a single column so it becomes more legible and easier to find your next stop. But you do have to interact with the spreadsheet to do so, copy and paste your coordinates to set your current location, then sort the column of distances from you. Maybe that's a bit clunky, but it works for me.
And second, every column is filtered! Do you want to sort systems by distance from you? Click the filter and sort! Don't want any station further away than 2000 Ls? Add a <2000 filter! Or any other distance you'd prefer. Don't want to trade with those glue sniffing, window licking Alliance people? Just filter them out! Permit systems? Filter! Do you want to stay 100 Ly away from Sol, so you can make a nice big loop? Filter! You can add any filter you like and sort on each column of data. Or simply hide entire columns if that data is irrelevant to you. Don't care if goods are illegal? Just hide that column.
Any suggestions are welcome! Like the colors I used to grade the coordinates, I'm definitely still on the fence about those.
Is this the best way to earn credits? No!
But there's more to the game than earning credits, and I find trading a lot more fun when I figure it all out myself, than just doing whatever EDDB.IO says is the current best trade.
The market caps of available tons of rares seem to have changed!
I picked up 66 tons of Altairian skins in one go. Altair-Solo orbiter used to have a 22 ton market cap.
And 72 tons of Pantaa prayer sticks, while this used to have a 36 ton market cap.
The market caps seem to have been doubled or tripled, so filling up the hold is a lot quicker than it used to be.
With a single cargohold of 208 tons in my python I can fill up the hold with just 4 jumps and earn 3.5 million Cr profit when I sell them at the required distance. So that's not bad at all.
Selling 208 tons of rares is just shy of instantly becoming allied to a ruling faction, so that's an added bonus.
But alas, my old notes on rares where never anywhere near complete, and are very much out of date.
The info on the Wiki and on Inara.cz is somewhat limited. The distance from Sol is nice to know, but how do you work out which system to visit next?
Cmdr Dragonic's old spreadsheet was quite the treasure (credit to him), but now out of date and missing 21 rare items.
So I've spent a full day of mucking about in excel, and I made a new excel sheet. With all 141 rare items, room for personal notes, and hopefully easily legible and easy to use.
This sheet is still very much a WORK IN PROGRESS. Here's a dropbox link, I will update the sheet as I go.
If you're interested in trading in rares, give this sheet a go. It's not perfect or finished. Some data is from the ED Wiki, some from Inara.cz, some from eddb.io, some from Cmdr Dragonic's spreadsheet, some from my own old notes. So things may be out of date or incomplete. I will update and make changes as I go.
Oh, great, another spreadsheet with rares ... woohoo ...
Yes! There are 2 things about my new sheet that I like.
First of all it can calculate the distance to all other systems from your current location, so you can find the next closest one. You just have to set the coordinates of your current location. If you're loading up on Onion Head in the Kappa Fornacis system, the sheet tells you that the Tanmark system (17,1 Ly) is the next closest system with rares.
Cmdr Dragonic's spreadsheet did this too, but in 120 columns. My spreadsheet uses a single column so it becomes more legible and easier to find your next stop. But you do have to interact with the spreadsheet to do so, copy and paste your coordinates to set your current location, then sort the column of distances from you. Maybe that's a bit clunky, but it works for me.
And second, every column is filtered! Do you want to sort systems by distance from you? Click the filter and sort! Don't want any station further away than 2000 Ls? Add a <2000 filter! Or any other distance you'd prefer. Don't want to trade with those glue sniffing, window licking Alliance people? Just filter them out! Permit systems? Filter! Do you want to stay 100 Ly away from Sol, so you can make a nice big loop? Filter! You can add any filter you like and sort on each column of data. Or simply hide entire columns if that data is irrelevant to you. Don't care if goods are illegal? Just hide that column.
Any suggestions are welcome! Like the colors I used to grade the coordinates, I'm definitely still on the fence about those.
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