Michael, I hope you folks are working a short day today? I also hope you all have a great break, it is well deserved!
Trading still useless. no high demand resources ever
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Michael, I hope you folks are working a short day today? I also hope you all have a great break, it is well deserved!
Making about 1700Cr/t round trip at the moment. Prices are slightly up after yesterday's server side update and supply/demand levels are beginning to normalise. Seems like it's having the right effect.
Finally had an hour last night. 940/ton one way and 1300 the other.
The Asp will soon be mine............
The Asp will soon be mine............
DB has said that the Galaxy map shows where the NPC's are trading. Look for your own routes.
I see the same thing, the area i've been hanging out in now has high demands on some commodities in every station and outpost.
981 cr/ton profit one way and 1701 cr/ton profit on the return trip on a one jump route, the last update has made this thread obsolete imo..
If you can't find profitable trading now, it's not the economy.
Don't insist on staying in your self declared "home system", waiting for good trades to come to you. Go and look where the profits are, they are there.
Please Frontier, fix these damn System Maps as they are still wrong. Can't play as a Smuggler at the moment. According to these, tobacco seems to be prohibed in Tiripu.
But it isn't, it's legit . I went from from Ross 210 for nothing. 20 LY away.
The best is that you can sell it near Ross 210 at Chemaku's black market ... for a loss!
But it isn't, it's legit . I went from from Ross 210 for nothing. 20 LY away.
The best is that you can sell it near Ross 210 at Chemaku's black market ... for a loss!
I've tried trading for the first time this week and it seems to be working ok.
Prices seem to correspond to what's going on in the galaxy map which is nice.
I found a route selling gold for 1450cr profit per tonne, 155k profit per run in my type 6 with 104 cargo.
There's no doubt I'm earning faster than bounty hunting (I got good at that) but that was more fun so I'll likely go back to that anyway.
Prices seem to correspond to what's going on in the galaxy map which is nice.
I found a route selling gold for 1450cr profit per tonne, 155k profit per run in my type 6 with 104 cargo.
There's no doubt I'm earning faster than bounty hunting (I got good at that) but that was more fun so I'll likely go back to that anyway.
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so then what is the point of showing us where the NPC are trading considering they are trading everwhere.... and lucky for the NPCs they know where to go, where I have to get in a ship travel to each station one at a time dock, land, look at prices, "record prices with paper", launch exit station and rinse and repeat. While the NPCs get all that info given to them for free...
Truthfully if that's what the Dev's decided what the game was going to be then screw trading that's way too much work.
And if anyone brings up a 3rd party tool please just stop, you are just making my point that the INGAME map is useless.
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Because it doesn't just show you where they are trading, it also shows you what and in which direction.
It may not give you the best paying route, you can find those yourself.. but it will give you a paying route, especially as the data becomes more accurate.
Making more cash than gamma now. 2,000 credits/ton per round trip, trading gold to a hitech and progentors to an extraction. Same run was worth 1,600 yesterday.
Bought my Asp and kitted it out reasonably well today. Such a relief to be out of that flying beer can type 6.
Bought my Asp and kitted it out reasonably well today. Such a relief to be out of that flying beer can type 6.
The galaxy map is still very flawed. I've spent the past two days chasing down trading arrows. I've been around the core, and I've been around the fringes.
I've seen trading arrows leading to systems with no stations.
I've discovered that a lot of fringe systems have outposts with the exact same supply/demand commodities and numbers, whether they're 20ls from the star, or 80,000ls from the star.
I've found a lot of trade lines that while technically correct, are still useless, because the system they lead to has a "medium" demand of 60, and is buying for 400cr below galactic average.
There are huge volumes of space where every system of the same economic type is producing and demanding the same subset of goods.
I have found a decent number of routes that will get over 1000cr/ton one way, although usually not more than 100-200cr/ton back. Unless you're really lucky, you're not going to find 2000cr/ton round trips just browsing the map.
I've seen trading arrows leading to systems with no stations.
I've discovered that a lot of fringe systems have outposts with the exact same supply/demand commodities and numbers, whether they're 20ls from the star, or 80,000ls from the star.
I've found a lot of trade lines that while technically correct, are still useless, because the system they lead to has a "medium" demand of 60, and is buying for 400cr below galactic average.
There are huge volumes of space where every system of the same economic type is producing and demanding the same subset of goods.
I have found a decent number of routes that will get over 1000cr/ton one way, although usually not more than 100-200cr/ton back. Unless you're really lucky, you're not going to find 2000cr/ton round trips just browsing the map.
No, the map is still useless, you have to put boots on the ground.
I jumped in a general direction, looking for a good home system.
Once I found one with a good demand/supply, I started looking around for suitable trading partners. It took a few hours of flying around, checking prices, but I finally found a 1300/1400T route, 22LY range. Its possible to do better, but this'll do for now.
So, go look around. There is monies to be made!
I jumped in a general direction, looking for a good home system.
Once I found one with a good demand/supply, I started looking around for suitable trading partners. It took a few hours of flying around, checking prices, but I finally found a 1300/1400T route, 22LY range. Its possible to do better, but this'll do for now.
So, go look around. There is monies to be made!
Lol, I have been, for two days now (literally, probably 16 hours). I'm giving up. Best I've managed to find is 1400cr/ton round trip. Honestly, it's been kind of fun hopping all over the place, but it would have been nice if it had been more fruitful. Still seems to be a good bit of luck involved.
