Seeking luxuries

[Spiridon]

Yeah game tells us absolutely nothing. So I suppose they don't take progenitor cells.

Don't go with Progenitor Cells, get Performance Enhancers.

 

[JeffersonFlight]

O man I sold so much to one site that now when I jump in I see them for a split second and then they up and vanish and leave trails. I don't know if its a cap or what but pretty strange.

 

[Shintai]

The seeking luxories are bugged. Or must be bugged. Because they only accept one single commodity. Nomatter where and how many you scan and try.

 

[Trueno33]

Not obvious. Just clever. People worked this out by scanning the cargo of the t9 to see what it was carrying.

This is the kind of stuff I love in games. Not being told how to work everything out without using our brains.

I see you have a good point here and honestly i should have thought of it by myself. But even so we should have some clue about which ones can be considered luxury commodities. May be it's in the corresponding info text in the trading screen. I'll check that

 

[RealNC]

A warning though - selling to them = smuggling. Your rep with whatever controlling faction in that system will drop.

How? Isn't this done in secret? Otherwise you woud be getting a fine, or?

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Not obvious. Just clever. People worked this out by scanning the cargo of the t9 to see what it was carrying.

This is the kind of stuff I love in games. Not being told how to work everything out without using our brains.

Uhm, no. That's not clever. It's just cryptic and bad design, defying common sense. A trader who doesn't tell you what he wants is not "clever."

The times where I needed to buy Nintendo Power to figure out that I need to hold a red crystal and crouch so that a whirlwind will appear in order to progress the game are over. Good riddance.

 

[Soda Popinski]

Good point. I came across a "Checkpoint" in a system yesterday. Didn't know what it was, so I stopped in. There was one L9 and some support ships puttering about. Couldn't figure out what was happening, so I just jumped out again. I didn't even think to scan the L9. Doh!

That's a security checkpoint. You get them in systems during Security Lockdowns.

 

[BlackReign]

Not very profitable, a waste of time if you have a decent route in a T7. When I tried the "seeking luxiries" run, my profit was around 1k/tn. Currently running a trade that's 2800/tn round trip,.

 

[Dielos]

I know what the Seeking Luxuries are for and all that, but I can't see any in-universe reason for them.

Why don't they just go to the station and buy these goods themselves?
Why only that one luxury and nothing else?
Why is selling to them considered smuggling?

It all feels like something that has been added but not fully implemented, or a place marker for some future mechanism

I actually feel it's quite realistic. It depicts situations we have in real life. A conflict zone is something horrible, but there are many opportunities to take advantage of them. I really like that you can sell for extra profit or less effort in conflict zones, but you're abusing from the suffering of others!

It also brings traders into the conflict zones, and gives them more life.

 

[Rik O Shea]

Not very profitable, a waste of time if you have a decent route in a T7. When I tried the "seeking luxuries" run, my profit was around 1k/tn. Currently running a trade that's 2800/tn round trip,.

+1 totally agree, but on the other hand these seeking luxuries are very profitable in a T6 in just one day i managed to get my T7 on a 3 minute run back n forth to dock

 

[Ixnatifual]

I think they will buy performance enhancers at a good price. I learned from a video.

Holy crap. I've been selling large amounts of performance enhancers to a station close by a "Seeking Luxuries" place. I would not have thought in a million years that performance enhancers would be "luxuries." That's a lot of extra profits out the window, I suppose.

 

[chrisreb]

Never found anywhere selling when I was seeing them in previous systems I was trading in.

 

[Vandaahl]

Might be fun to see if we can rid the universe of these clowns. I say we try to hunt them down to the last one.