Can someone tell me, does the "Exported too / Imported From" actually reflect the pricing now? When I started playing the release version, I was trying to travel the Galaxy by checking for Exports to a system in roughly the direction I wanted to go while parked at my current dock. I was regularly picking up medium to high stock wares, which were well below the Galactic average price and were reportedly Exported to a near-by system. However when I arrived in the target system - which did indeed reportedly Import said ware - I'd end up making a loss. This issue put me off venturing any further, as I'd found a reasonable 1,500cr per tonne trip with a 250cr tonne return - round trip taking about 10 minutes.
I'd really like to venture away from my "home" system, but previously the trade data was plain wrong. If this is more accurate now - I.e. the Exporter has the ware for less than the Importer is paying - then I can proceed without bankrupting myself. If there's no profit to be had from venturing forth now, I might as well continue the local trade grind until I have a better ship. Currently in an Asp configured for trading, so it's somewhat under-shielded.
On another note: I'm generally not seeing more than a 10cr difference or so in ware prices between Stations / Docks in the same System. Is this normal? I thought some intra-system trading between say a mining outpost (near an Extraction Site) and the main system station might be practical, but not found this to be the case so far.
Scoob.
