So they've made trading a lot harder than it should be. You only see the prices when you are docked at a station, which I get. But surely it should keep track of the prices for at least some time and not completely forget it as soon as you undock. This game is just becoming a pain and not really fun. The learning curve is high, but for something which is just overly cumbersome to play.
Anyway, buying trade data. People have told me not to bother, its inaccurate and only lasts 24 hours, but what exactly does it do? I bought it once to test it and no idea what it did.
And the trade routes. Well, they look real pretty, but again, they are just a pain to use. Some of the colours are so similar, and then you drill down and eventually you find out what good is being exported. Ok - right, so I've got it, there is a glowing orange line going from where I am to another system. And I drill down and its Commodity X. So, I buy it from a station in the system that I am in, where the price looks ok, and the supply is high.
I then travel to my destination system, look around for a station which will import it... And find.... none of them do. Eh? So I dock at one station, only to find I will make a loss. Take off, fly to another station, same story. Eventually I found one where I made a bit of a profit. Lots of time spent, very cumbersome. And then when I decide to do another trade run, I have no idea what to buy because all my prices from the stations I was at 20 minutes ago have gone.
Do I really need to write down the buy sell price of every commodity at every station I visit to even play the game?
I know there are 3rd party tools about taking screenshots and then exporting the data, but seriously.... They decided not to put this in the game, even though surely every on board flight computer would come with at least a basic computer for recording these things.
Anyway, buying trade data. People have told me not to bother, its inaccurate and only lasts 24 hours, but what exactly does it do? I bought it once to test it and no idea what it did.
And the trade routes. Well, they look real pretty, but again, they are just a pain to use. Some of the colours are so similar, and then you drill down and eventually you find out what good is being exported. Ok - right, so I've got it, there is a glowing orange line going from where I am to another system. And I drill down and its Commodity X. So, I buy it from a station in the system that I am in, where the price looks ok, and the supply is high.
I then travel to my destination system, look around for a station which will import it... And find.... none of them do. Eh? So I dock at one station, only to find I will make a loss. Take off, fly to another station, same story. Eventually I found one where I made a bit of a profit. Lots of time spent, very cumbersome. And then when I decide to do another trade run, I have no idea what to buy because all my prices from the stations I was at 20 minutes ago have gone.
Do I really need to write down the buy sell price of every commodity at every station I visit to even play the game?
I know there are 3rd party tools about taking screenshots and then exporting the data, but seriously.... They decided not to put this in the game, even though surely every on board flight computer would come with at least a basic computer for recording these things.
