Ridiculous trading outlier - megaprofits for polymers.
Yeah, no idea what Adept is going on about.. Polymers is not just cheap plastics. Putting aside real world uses, this is the in-game desciption
Polymers are materials made of long chains of molecules. They are synthesised from mineral oil in refineries, and then used by industry to manufacture a very wide range of goods.
So what's wrong exactly? A system has a sudden need for more goods and pays a high premium to get them in. Last time I did this with Military Fabrics and Polymers profits decayed each run as demand was filled.
Companies do that exact thing, today.
Cheap to make at source because you have access to raw materials, and infrastructure required to produce it. High value at destination because you don't have raw mats, and or infrastructure to produce, and have a high demand for it in your industrial process. Thats part of how supply / demand work
Trading needs to be reworked anyway to be more skill based, less grindy and more interesting.I don't mean this to sound snarky (honestly) but you're the one who's missing the point.
The point being, alas, that because everybody's off mining to earn credits nobody (including the Dev's, apparently) really cares that something less profitable is messed-up.
To address your point, you're absolutely right.
Things that are hard to find, and likely to be troublesome to deliver, should definitely be more valuable than more common items.
I suppose they'll get around to fixing it eventually.
I'm glad they implemented my mining suggestion. I suppose I should try giving them my mining rework as well.
(I tried to get hired by Frontier as a designer for a long time, but the company is too much of a walled garden. Only progress I ever made was when in frustration I gave them the mining rework as a freebie via the community liaisons. Even then, never heard back from them but at least they implemented it).
This is carrying raw plastics, not finished products, and it's sold for more than platinum / ton. Don't even bother trying to justify it.Right, to those who say those kinds of profit margins are ridiculous, I suggest researching how much, for instance, Nike pays for a pair of sneakers with a retail price tag of $150 or so.
Also known as plastic. Did you guys not have chemistry at school?
Also something bought for 50 credits / ton is by definition cheap. Are you guys arguing just to stay warm?
Entirely unrelated.
Perhaps its space polymers? From space?
You bought something cheap, sold it for a high profit to a high tech economy in demand.. What an outrage..
Just taking the p's out of your ridiculous op, wrap that skin of yours in some teflon.
I wouldn't think there's much benefit in bulk passenger carrying unless you happen to luck upon a bunch of missions all going to the same station and/or system. The real money is in VIPs.
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Platinum sells for 40-60k per tonne depending on the system, so even with Polymers' inflated price I think you need to have a word with your Platinum dealer.
The demand spiked to crazy levels on water worlds where unlike earth there wasn't any in the pristine oceans. Consequently new settlements are ordering it by in the megatons to correct the deficiency. Once it begins to float on the surface and permeate the food chain the demand will crash.
Generally correct. I do get some nice bulk transport missions, but to be really worth it over VIP you probably need an Anaconda. With a T-6 the Sightseeing missions should be quite lucrative. At least better than bulk cargo trading. 100T @ 10k is only aprox 1Mil per run. With a couple Class 5 Passenger cabins you can easily find payouts of several million if your allied.
Seems like a bonanza scenario, which is fine in itself if profits balance back out over time as the market need is met. Of course if the need is not met, high profits should continue until need is finally met or the market collapse.
Question then is: Do the profits diminish over time? Will unmet demands starve a market? Are player actions the only actions influencing the market? That really should not be the case, as we are not that many CMDRs active in trading compared to the full market size in the game. Hopefully the BGS has a built-in way for the market to balance itself out over time, either by a faction state change reshuffling needs or by an algorithm representing NPC trading fulfilling the need at a background rate.
I don't know much about the BGS itself, as my interests are exploration and pew-pew mainly.
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Question then is: Do the profits diminish over time? Will unmet demands starve a market? Are player actions the only actions influencing the market? That really should not be the case, as we are not that many CMDRs active in trading compared to the full market size in the game. Hopefully the BGS has a built-in way for the market to balance itself out over time, either by a faction state change reshuffling needs or by an algorithm representing NPC trading fulfilling the need at a background rate.
I don't know much about the BGS itself, as my interests are exploration and pew-pew mainly.
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