Anyone currently trading can't have failed to miss the changes to commodity levels and prices.
My question is are they doing this scientifically or randomly?
I don't play enough to be able to work out the patterns but often I get to a station i.e. Ovid only to find that they have no supplies of any technology or machinery.
I don't mind if there is some logic to it i.e. Ovid produces 2000 units of marine supplies every 4 hours. The game community and NPCs then buy them and moves them on to sell elsewhere hence there is no supply for a while.....that makes sense to me.
I get the feeling however that it is far more random than that. I went to Ovid recently which had thousands of units of marine supplies, took them to Opala, sold them, and made the return journey with Fish which I sold at Ovid. The time elapsed between trades was less than 30 minutes but on returning to Ovid it seems they had sold out of marine supplies?? Not only that but they had no tech or machinery at all?
So in the half hour or so I was in transit a huge flotilla of traders turned up and bought about 30,000 units of tech and machinery??
I really don't mind dynamic pricing, in fact it is needed in this game and I welcome it as long as it makes sense and adheres to some sort of supply and demand logic.
My question is are they doing this scientifically or randomly?
I don't play enough to be able to work out the patterns but often I get to a station i.e. Ovid only to find that they have no supplies of any technology or machinery.
I don't mind if there is some logic to it i.e. Ovid produces 2000 units of marine supplies every 4 hours. The game community and NPCs then buy them and moves them on to sell elsewhere hence there is no supply for a while.....that makes sense to me.
I get the feeling however that it is far more random than that. I went to Ovid recently which had thousands of units of marine supplies, took them to Opala, sold them, and made the return journey with Fish which I sold at Ovid. The time elapsed between trades was less than 30 minutes but on returning to Ovid it seems they had sold out of marine supplies?? Not only that but they had no tech or machinery at all?
So in the half hour or so I was in transit a huge flotilla of traders turned up and bought about 30,000 units of tech and machinery??
I really don't mind dynamic pricing, in fact it is needed in this game and I welcome it as long as it makes sense and adheres to some sort of supply and demand logic.
