Confusion regarding trading goods

[astrosteve]

Being a total newbie to Vega Strike, I have a question. It doesn't seem to be covered in the manual or Vega Strike Wiki, so I'm hoping someone here can help me out a bit.

I understand the general concept of trade routes. I've done a few successful ones in the game. Generally, in games where I run trade routes similar to this, I tend to note any stations with prices that seem particularly low. However, in Vega Strike, there doesn't seem to be a way to see the buy prices of any item you don't have in your cargo hold. Am I missing something or is this correct? I feel like I'm setting myself up to get wiped out financially if I load my cargo hold up randomly and think, "Boy, I hope I can unload all this at a profit."

I don't know, do prices tend to be static enough that they don't matter? That is, could I just say, "I know [X] always gets a good price on ocean planets, so I'll just buy it and find an ocean planet. It's guaranteed profit!"

Any advice on this would be appreciated. Thanks!

[klauss]

Prices do vary, but usually rather slowly and not by too much to be worried. You usually can resell them where you bought them for a similar price. And if it did change and you faced a net loss... well... that's the risk you undertake as a trader

In short, the only way in which you can find out the selling price of an item is to go where it's sold and take a look. And note it down. You'll buy and sell there at that price, so if you can get the item cheaper somewhere else, you can make a profit. As long as prices don't change of course.

SVN does the "note it down" part automatically, since doing it on a notepad is quite a dull chore, but it's equally easy to do by hand.

[pheonixstorm]

In the (near?) future prices will flucuate more as we build in a more realistic trade economy were the price of items will be higher or lower due to market demands for a particular product, surplus, shortage, etc. Its just a question of when it will happen.. till then the price you see will usually be the price you buy or sell for most of the game. I personally have not seen any deviation on pricing between games buying and selling and the same systems.

[shenle]

In the (near?) future prices will flucuate more as we build in a more realistic trade economy were the price of items will be higher or lower due to market demands for a particular product, surplus, shortage, etc. Its just a question of when it will happen.. till then the price you see will usually be the price you buy or sell for most of the game. I personally have not seen any deviation on pricing between games buying and selling and the same systems.

I have. If you do the same trade route repeatedly the prices will start to vary, sometimes quite abruptly. And not in your favor. Even the "starter" trade route, Atlantis <-> Serenity can give you some nasty surprise, say you bought X at 114cr and sold it at 150cr a few times, now you find that the buying price is 120cr and selling 87cr...

[pheonixstorm]

I have not run across that before.. even after hundreds of trades. I've always run across the same prices every time.