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Heathwalker
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Posted - 2003.08.04 21:14:00 -
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Muacha
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Posted - 2003.08.04 21:47:00 -
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Simple?? Sure...buy low, sell high. Simple huh? But that's exactly how you "do" trade routes. You've got to find a supply for lower than the demand. This takes work and usually some travel. My experience has been that buying in one region and selling in another offers the most profit. However, if you are lucky, you can actually find trade routes in the same solar system!!! Yep...I've done it. Made about 1/2 mill in 30 minutes in one solar system with absolutely no risk....flying between 2 stations. Clearly CCP has some things to iron out in the trade routes!!!
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Heathwalker
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Posted - 2003.08.04 22:02:00 -
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Thx, but how do I tell whether prices are low or high in a given area?
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Jorev
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Posted - 2003.08.05 03:02:00 -
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Edited by: Jorev on 05/08/2003 03:03:57
You can see demand and supply prices by region via the market tables, these prices are often correct but sometimes not because of the ability of players to impose phony prices on the market.
This is a serious problem that CCP has been made aware of and needs to address by requiring escrow for all buy orders placed and by deleting all previous buy orders which are not guaranteed thru escrow funds.
Trade routes currently seem to be static, meaning that the same supply/demand locations and prices are in existence after each daily reboot.
This means that experienced players have already monopolized the most lucrative trade routes by placing buy orders in advance, so you will never even become aware that these routes exist. All you can find mostly nowadays are the leftovers.
This is another serious problem CCP has been made aware of and needs to fix by creating a more flexibale AI which will vary the supply/demand locations and prices on a daily basis.
This monopolization of trade routes has given experienced players a major advantage for revenue to invest in manufacturing as well.
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Heathwalker
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Posted - 2003.08.05 20:00:00 -
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So do I look in the chart of prices of say isogen?
How can I tell what is selling price in one place over another?
Sorry to be obtuse...I have looked and failed :(
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Jorev
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Posted - 2003.08.06 02:29:00 -
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Edited by: Jorev on 06/08/2003 02:29:37
Click on the little yellow tab next to the item you want to check out, then choose tables demand or supply to see station listings in that region/constellation/solar system.
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Griss
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Posted - 2003.08.07 12:45:00 -
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So do I look in the chart of prices of say isogen?
How can I tell what is selling price in one place over another?
Sorry to be obtuse...I have looked and failed :(
a good place to start is the trade goods in the market.
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Red Leader
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Posted - 2003.08.07 15:52:00 -
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Edited by: Red Leader on 07/08/2003 15:56:01
Go to a region. Dock with a station. Open the market. UNclick 'Show only active'. Open up the category you are interested in, such as freight goods. Check supply and demand of EVERY ONE OF THEM. Even if it says 'None|None' there may very well be large supplies and demands in there. I don't know why it says None when there is some but it does. Write all the information you find down. Go to another region and repeat the process.
Don't just keep track of prices, also keep track of the amount demanded and supplied, and try and get familiar with the map so you know if locations are far or near, and finally also keep track of the volume an item takes up. The thing that gives a profit of 300 per unit may not be as good as that which only gives 3 if you can fit 1000 times more of the latter in your hold.
And remember people hide things. If there are 10,000 widgets demanded at 101 ISK in one place and 10,000 sold for 50 Isk in another a player can place a buy order for 10 widgets at 102 where there is the demand and thus conceal the NPC demand. Same goes for supply, he could put in an order for 49 Isk and you'd never know there were 10,000 at 50 behind it.
Trade routes takes a lot of effort to find and hold. You may be better off with just mining.
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