I'm asking this because I've done lux trading for several days at the same place now.. I've noticed that it does NOT matter how many items the market has in stock.. The price on PE varies from 6.4 to 6.6 in tonne prices.. I have not managed to find out how often the price changes, other than it seems that it happens randomly... I just want to know why it changes. I am trying to plan effective runs, but it's hard when I can never know what price to find when I am logging in.
Why does commodity prices change?
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No it doesn't here.. I've checked.. That's the thing!! It jumps from one price to another, and I have checked the stock availability of this item over several days now.. I logged out now and back in, and suddenly it went from 6.6 to 6.4 now....
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And yesterday it showed 6.6 for my friend and 6.4 for me.. The price was different at the same time for both of us.. It seems VERY random.. When I log out and back in it sometimes changes..
I have a station that has been stable @ 6136 for 5 days now. I am making 1362 credits profit per ton. In my Python I carry 284 tonnes of cargo and do a run in less than 3 minutes.
That means I move 5680 tonnes of cargo per hour without price change. I have moved 68,160 tonnes of cargo in my 3 serious sessions of 4 hours each. Price has not changed one credit.
This is broken, PVP is broken, whole game is broken, and yet they are still considering changes to ships before addressing game breaking mechanics and bugs.
Go Home Elite: Dangerous... you're drunk.
That means I move 5680 tonnes of cargo per hour without price change. I have moved 68,160 tonnes of cargo in my 3 serious sessions of 4 hours each. Price has not changed one credit.
This is broken, PVP is broken, whole game is broken, and yet they are still considering changes to ships before addressing game breaking mechanics and bugs.
Go Home Elite: Dangerous... you're drunk.
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Same reason prices change in the real world, supply and demand.
No, I told you guys it has nothing to do with this.. 73.000 in stock the one day was 6.6 per tonne, and I relogged and suddenly it was 6.4k per tonne..
Then my friend had 6.6 buy price while I had 6.4 at the SAME time!!!
No, but I see the stock all the time.. And what about me and my friend trading the EXACT same commodity to luxuries on the same place?? There were 200CR difference from me and him.. How do we explain that?
Ahh.. That makes sense, if it's not the first time. I was very confused.. Hope it will be sorted out then. Not a big deal, but it its annoying sometimes
As an aside, remember that supply/demand amounts and categories aren't linked. Amounts are about what the station holds or will accept. Categories and prices reflect requirements on the planet.
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(For example - you will see occasional high supply / 0 supply items. That just means there's nothing left at the station.)
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(For example - you will see occasional high supply / 0 supply items. That just means there's nothing left at the station.)
I've noticed this too. My brother and I were at the same station at the same time, I sold my stuff for 1,200cr, he sold his for 900cr.
This shouldn't happen, lets hope its a bug.
You should read the other thread around here and you will know.
You have to use imagination and FABRICATE a reason. If you can't, sorry, you lack imagination.
Now, if we use our brains and apply some basic logic, yes, the prices are just randomly generated using some static rules that have nothing to do with anything that would affect prices in a real economy (unless we imagine all the governments are communists, in which case the fact the price are not affected by supply/demand or costs of production/delivery make perfect sense).
Do you imagine how much Hutton Orbital would pay for goods to be delivered to them given the fact that you can make 10 times the profit in the time you need to get to that station.
You can see the lack of any real influence on prices in the fact that some products have the same identical average price with another product and they always do, like animal meat and coffee or performance enhancers and progenitor cells.
You have to use imagination and FABRICATE a reason. If you can't, sorry, you lack imagination.
Now, if we use our brains and apply some basic logic, yes, the prices are just randomly generated using some static rules that have nothing to do with anything that would affect prices in a real economy (unless we imagine all the governments are communists, in which case the fact the price are not affected by supply/demand or costs of production/delivery make perfect sense).
Do you imagine how much Hutton Orbital would pay for goods to be delivered to them given the fact that you can make 10 times the profit in the time you need to get to that station.
You can see the lack of any real influence on prices in the fact that some products have the same identical average price with another product and they always do, like animal meat and coffee or performance enhancers and progenitor cells.
I've seen this a couple of times too, but in both cases, there was a civil war going on in the system where I was seeing the random fluctuations. I don't know if that's just a coincidence, or if a war can have some effect on it, but I did not see the fluctuations after the war ended in one of these systems (but I didn't hang around there for too long after that).