Trading observations between 2 stations over several hours - a few things seem not work correctly

[scorp]

Over the course of several hours yesterday and this morning myself and Commander Romes recorded various data points while trading between Cernobog->Kirkwood Vision and ->Maidubrigel->Macgill Estate
We were buying Non Lethal Weapons @ Kirkwood and Beryllium @ Macgill

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Kirkwood Vision observations:

• Beryllium sell price never changes (always 9022 CR)
• Beryllium demand never changes (always 129187)
• Non Lethal Weapon buy price never changes (always 1503 CR)
• Non Lethal Weapon supply never changes (always 55456)

Macgill Estate observations:

• Beryllium buy price varies with demand (see graph above)
• Beryllium supply varies (see graph above)
• Non Lethal Weapon sell price never changes (always 1876 CR)
• Non Lethal Weapon demand never changes (always 0)
• Non Lethal Weapon demand is always 0 (yet you can still sell)
• Reactive Armour demand is also always 0
• Biowaste has no value at all in the demand column, yet you can still sell
• Gallite always shows as Imported From (Various stations) and also Exported To (various stations) - but it never has a value in the supply column - so how can it export ?

General observations:

• Sometimes taking large amounts of cargo between stations triggers a drop in stock levels for other clients. But this does not always happen. We were shifting 200+ cargo a time and it only registered this occasionally. It seemed to be linked to when the transaction update happens, but even this didn't seem consistent. More testing needed.
• Commodities list auto refreshes ~10 mins - well most of the time it does, sometimes it doesn't at all. More testing needed.
• The auto refresh seems to be tied to the last time a transaction is sent/retrieved by the client - though its hard to pinpoint which transactions count.
• Auto refresh is different per client because its linked to that clients last transaction trigger - it does not seem to be controlled by the server.
• Solo / Private Group and Open Play prices and stock levels seem consistent.

Google Spreadsheet of recorded data:
Bye & Sell | Beryllium | Non Lethal Weapons

 

[RegisterMe]

Good work, I've seen similar odd behaviour trading beryllium one way and performance enhancers the other, though in my case the beryllium price, demand and supply remained static whereas the numbers and supply status for performance enhancers did change as a result of my activity and others or the background simulation).

It all feels a bit.... odd.