Commodities

dHay · #1 February 4th, 2004, 08:35 PM

I may be missing something, but the buying and selling of commodities seems to have a few, umm, issues.

The commodity list shows systems that have no where to buy or sell. Like asteroid only systems....
(Like Fedolo.) Or systems with no bases with spaceports. Which could increase one's frustration when you've got a ship loaded with Silver Corn Containers, and no where to sell them....

I also have trouble finding the current system in the list. Generally you are interested in the current system for what to buy and where to sell it.

Drake113 · #2 February 4th, 2004, 09:08 PM

Well, the commodity list only list places within three jumps of your current system, so in the case of stuff where there are sellers and no buyers listed, that's most likely because there's nobody within a 3 system radius that's buying that item.

Ed Kolis · #3 February 4th, 2004, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by dHay:
The commodity list shows systems that have no where to buy or sell. Like asteroid only systems....

Sounds like a bug... I'll go report it.

dHay · #4 February 4th, 2004, 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by Drake113:
Well, the commodity list only list places within three jumps of your current system, so in the case of stuff where there are sellers and no buyers listed, that's most likely because there's nobody within a 3 system radius that's buying that item.

Yes, I realize that. But it lists systems that can't buy or sell because there is no spaceport to trade at.

The list is also just a little hard to use.

Sivran · #5 February 20th, 2004, 12:09 AM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Sounds like a bug... I'll go report it.

Definitely a bug, I noticed it too.

Edit: Er, also, I bought some commodities in Yorkshire for 101 credits each. After discovering Fedolo was uninhabited, I warped to Wanduk, figuring I'd drop off the commods there, hopefully for no loss. When I got to the Terran Listening Post in Wanduk, some of the commods sold for 175, the rest for 101. Maybe it's a demand thing, but Wanduk wasn't listed on the commodity listing page when I stopped at New Texas on the way to Fedolo.

[ February 19, 2004, 22:15: Message edited by: Sivran ]

Hok · #6 February 20th, 2004, 12:26 AM

My opinion is that I really don't understand why commodities where added to the game at all!

I mean, THIS way.

Everybody says that you make more money by shooting down enemy ships and savaging the cargo.

Even if you don't like that you can ship cargo on request by the various guilds.

So tell me why should anyone do commerce that way??

1) You don't have a better profit
2) It's more difficult to sell things
3) You don't take mission experience points!

Phoenix-D · #7 February 20th, 2004, 12:42 AM

You could make it so commodity trading has a better profit, if you wanted. Its more a feature for mods than the main game..now only if I could figure it out.

Ed Kolis · #8 February 20th, 2004, 07:17 PM

Yeah... imagine what would happen if you made the regular ship components (i.e. the ones you install) also commodities - so Incinerator Beams might be AVAILABLE in Terran space, but at a very high price and low occurrence - and you could make quite a profit shuttling them over from the Fazrah!

Phoenix-D · #9 February 20th, 2004, 09:07 PM

Good idea. Do you know how to do it? I can't seem to find anything that affects where commodities can be found or their rareity.

Ed Kolis · #10 February 20th, 2004, 11:13 PM

Commodities are sold just the same as any other component, remember? So presumably if you just take the stock components and set their "Is Commodity" flag to TRUE, then they should behave like commodities, except they'll appear with their normal rarity and location

Hmm, looks like it's time for a mod... (digs out SJ's store modder and promptly gets nowhere

)

Darn, that won't work... there's no way to control the price of a commodity at a particular location - it's set in the component file, not the store file!