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refineries, probably
The ore selling console wont let me select my ship
trying to buy gold from Shubin SM0-18 to load into my C2 Herc, but when i hit confirm for purchasing, it says cargo transfer failed. am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug type thing? (yes i have the vehicle selected for loading)
only my first time trying to do this
do you have any other cargo in the ship?
no i didnt
completely empty? Nothing in the cargo bay at all?
yep
And when you go back in to buy after the error, do you see the same amount available to buy?
i tried numerous times, decided to take the ship off a bit, logged out in the bed and logged back in and went back and it was 0 in stock, so im guessing it just wasnt updating the volume
Yeah, that's what I think it was. The Supply and Demand for any location is shared across servers, so you're competing with everyone who's using that spot
Gold is a very high demand commodity, so you'll have a rough time trying to trade it
better to shoot for Beryl, at one of the 4 spots that have effectively infinite supply for how fast it regens
thank you for the advice 🙂
need advice on stuffing the c1 with cargo
i did it before and i cant do it again for some reason with a passage to the cockpit
for the best cargo in ert's do i do group or the other one.
welp i did it
Late to respond on this, but there's actually a way to get around this
When you run into that error, try buying all but 1 unit of their current stock
And most of the time, it'll work
Idk if it's cloning stuff that was already purchased but hasn't updated properly yet, but it usually works
The inverse also works -- while I was messing around with the Hull C, I sold a station as many distilled spirits as they could buy, then realized that it still said zero and so sold them a full load -1 of distilled spirits again before the server ticked over and updated their count
Lol why does the Argo Cargo have a random “boaty mcboatface” in the text
do the claimjumper missions have cargo on the ships you kill?
They're mostly mining ships, so not really
ah so we can't take the prospector bags with stuff in them just yet
how long yall think it will take to make 15 mil with the hull c?
At least 60 runs 
ouch
with how much of an investment?
The amounts in yellow above, times the amount of SCU you got
do you have a chart which includes the new stations as well
So about 10mil for the most expensive one, about 500-1200k with the others
If you run processed food you're gonna need 52 runs to make 15 mils, probably over 70 considering the amount of bugs
sheesh
so is hydrogen my best bet then
is this from a website?
really need to stop sharing this chart since it's out of date with the addition of the jump point stations
the commodities of those four stations have changed in some cases
Jump points really don't add much to it
no, but some of the commodities at those four don't match
If you want to update it, go ahead
If I had to stop using every outdated stuff, I would not even use tradetools anymore 🤷
It's not up to date, but it's ok accurate
Good enough IMO
If I were to edit it, I would, for sure, not add the JP stations
I'm just sayin' to keep that in mind, or avoid sharing it without the disclaimer is all. Seraphim no longer buys Iron, and Everus no longer buys Helium, so the triangle's inaccurate to a degree. I don't have the skill to edit something like that and make it look nice to update it though
just made my own excel doc to track instead lol
Me neither 
Screenshot?
accuracy not 100% guaranteed
commented cells = limited demand/supply
ie: nowhere near a full Hull C's worth on either side
(don't buy a full Hull C of Med Supplies or Distilled Spirits)
Thank you
thank you for the tips! much appreciated
I haven't been able to get my Hull C out of docking bay. How is everyone getting to it if the docking bay doors are closed?
EVA from pad or get someone else to give you a ride
I dunno if that's the best way, but that's what I had to do
Sometimes the doors spawn properly. Mostly not though.
Call ATC multiple times
How risky is gold cargo runs
not very
the main risk is in not finding enough supply
Are you at TDD or Comodities terminal?
On one of my Gold routes I had problems with NPC attacks. They blew me up in Armistice area.
Filling up with that sweet sweet gold
taking a while tho
and i witnessed 2 massive orgs fighting, one even had a 890 lol
Wow cool load man!!
ty, still going strong trying to fill it up fully..
It seems perhaps unwise to advertise your extremely valuable cargo loading. There's only a couple of spots you can get gold.
can i access the cargo on an SRV (can i pick up some boxes and put them on the grid)? want to know before i pledge one
It's a small lift for 10 SCU under its belly
so i can physically access cargo
nice, cheers
It can however also tow 32 SCU container
how would you sell that though?
Soon when cargo elevators are a thing it should be possible
Soon™
is cargo even worth it right now?
I just spent like an hour ferrying whatever I can from SCD1 to Area18 (Because SCD1 refuses to fill with gold) and I made maybe 50k
it's rough to start out but once you have some cash, yeah
Beryl is what you really want to go for
effectively limitless supply, and once you're in a C2 you can earn anywhere from 250k-450k per run depending on your choices of destinations
Where from?
learn to use this site
specifically the commodities page
you can use the trade routes generator too, but without messing with the settings, it just recommends Gold at the top end
look up Beryl (or yoru desired commodity), and you'll see where it's bought and sold. Should become clear from there
SCD1 didn't have beryl
The site may be slightly out of date, however - didn't have any, or didn't sell any? Did it sell beryl, but was out of stock?
and setting aside that
the ideal places to buy - because of potential supply issues - are the ones that have the biggest max inventory and refresh rate
Ryder or Woodruff, or the two microtech outposts
Can someone tell me how long do I have to wait for the shop inventory to restock at a commodities area
depends on the area, and the refresh rates are per minute
but you're competing with everyone else ingame, not just those on your server
Oh wait so if I wait for it to refresh then I buy it out it buys out for very other server?
Will it?
essentially, yes, as I understand it
but there might be other people trying to do the same
So I have to basically buy it before other people do?
yes
what are you trying to buy?
Slam
yeah
drugs are always gonna be rough
very low supply, and very low demand when selling
yes
Ahhh I want to get something not illegal
Will I be able to since I have a cutless black
just about everything that's sold at places that sell any drug will also be a drug
lol your ship doesn't matter
Oh ok it’s just I’m using sc trade tools
And it only is recommending drugs
For the cutless black
that's because the cutlass has a small cargo hold, and it's set to show the highest profit you can make with that amount of cargo
that's gonna be drugs since they have the highest profit margin per SCU
you can adjust the filters to remove vices
you're on the Trade Routes page I assume
Yea
you haven't considered clicking on anything here before?
I have I just don’t see a button for not highest profit
...click the commodities dropdown
see where it has a dropdown for types
and then below it, a toggle for 'avoid selection'?
select vices
make sure avoid selection is clicked
that removes vices from the suggestions
What are vices?
yes
and the places that buy and sell them don't have armistice zones, and players like to camp them
Oh ok well thank you for all the help
K ty
Do HRT’s spawn with cargo, or is the money made in VHRT+?
they might if it's a ship that has a cargo hold, but in such low amounts that it's not worth focusing on
The commodity terminal at seraphim wont buy my RMC material, where else can I sell this?
TDD's
and scrap yards
thanks
I had to leave 195scu of RMC behind me...so yes
That's a lot of money
195scu? what kind of ships do those targets fly?
hello friends
i have salvaged some stuff, i have a few boxes of tungstun i got off ships, some iron ore and recycled materials, also have some warheads and some big gun
how/where can i sell all of this for a reasonable profit?
You can sell every components in the same shops that sells them.
For cargo, see !tradetools ⬇️
One-stop-shop for everything trade related in Star Citizen: best trade routes, best mining spots, etc.
For HRT bounty , we have big ships like corsair, but caterpillar, C2, M2, carrack, 890jump too,
890j only spawns in ERTs
If you have Vices and UEE pulls you over QT away...
New player here can someone summarise cargo trading in a short manner ?
sheesh. what kind of ships do y'all use to take those down?
See the trading guide in our #learn-to-play👶old channel 👍
Connie/Hercules/Corsair ✨
buy low, sell high. use this for good and routes to use: https://sc-trade.tools/home
Thnx
Well, if you care about their cargo
so basically just the same ships but flown better?
If you care about cargo from bounties yeah
If not, you can just fly what ever you want, but Ares/Vanguards would be the best fighters for it
Any hint about when hull c could be purchased ingame?
At least 90 days after its release. Then it should be buyable next major patch
Meaning, next major patch after the 90 day period
But well, following this rules, Fury and Fury MX should already be buyable in game
Vulture been buyable in game since 3.20 already
oh. wiki is outdated then.
1.3M
Make sure you check the .tools wiki. The Fandom wiki is bad
Or check !itemfinder ⬇️
Use the website to search for any item (and where to buy them) in-game.
Then you can tell it to the people working on it in #wiki-editing 👍
Anyone know what the restock time for gold is?
24/min or 10/min depending on where you are https://sc-trade.tools/commodities/Gold
ah thanks
LF a cargo hauler
most people are doing gold rn, i did hydrogen this morning and it wasnt that busy
oh is it not supposed to be put here
Yes, that's what #looking-for-session is for
Here is a specialized channel for discussing topic, not finding people to play with
Well you can find people here, but then if you start considering playing with someone you're chatting with, move to DMs or #looking-for-session
Is it worth if you’re flying a Corsair or should I look for other routes
Hydrogen is already worth practically nothing with a Hull C
So with anything else ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Beryl makes for good runs
But IMO, with less than 120 SCU you better run drugs
Look at vice routes on !tradetools ⬇️
One-stop-shop for everything trade related in Star Citizen: best trade routes, best mining spots, etc.
Thanks
I’m new
But since you have a Corsair, you could also do high level bounties and take drugs from your targets
Yeah I prefer the more passive gameplay loops sometimes
What do i do if i bought some cargo and went to a station which the sc tool told me to go to but the item is in no demand ?
You wait for it to be in demand.
No demand isn't "we don't buy", it's "we have too much of this" but stocks will go down with time
How long does it usually take ?
Between 5 and 15 minutes
I see
Is it me or is there a whole of walking and moving your ship from one spot to another for getting cargo on your ship when it probably shouldn't be this complicated
Not sure I follow. they are introducing tractorbeams on ships, and you have auto load/unload, what is complicated?
Like docking and walking to a terminal to purchase the cargo, then needing to go back to your ship to move it to load the cargo
seems very true to how things are handled today
being able to do "online" shopping from your ship would be nice, but I see the point in having people walk inside to make stations feel more alive. As long as you are not doing a preapproved pickup for a mission type of thing, I dont see the issue personally.
Eventually it's all going to have to be loaded manually. Honeslty can't wait for that, bring on the cargo Tetris!
I thought it would still have autoloading for a cost? both in time and money?
manually loading a hull-e would be a game session alone
Well, the Hull series specifically is really annoying
since you have to dock, go in, buy cargo, get back on board, move to load cargo, go to next station, dock, go on board, sell cargo, get back on board, move to unload cargo
and if you have multiple types of cargo you then have to repeatedly dock and go on board to sell each type of cargo individually since you can't queue up multiple sales at the same time for some reason
Then undock, unload, redock, sell, repeat
Worst part is, you can't have a co-pilot just stay on the ship while you go onto the station to arrange the transation. Only you can contact the cargo channel and get a loading/unloading area
and only you can buy/sell cargo for the ship to carry, too
So the entire crew does literally nothing except for the ship owner who has to handle every step of the process personally, over and over again
And if any other ships get too close to you at any point during the loading/unloading process? You're now considered to be "obstructing the cargo bay" because I guess it's your fault for queuing up something for the cargo bay to be doing in the first place
so your ship gets impounded and you have to EVA back to the station so you can resummon it
So with that experience in mind, I'm really not looking forward to manual loading
Because I can almost guarantee you there'll be a ton of that same "can only purchase/sell one thing at a time" nonsense and running back and forth between buying and loading if you try to take more than just one kind of cargo
At least other crew on your ship will be able to help, though, so it'd be a step in the right direction in that regard.
are eggs or maze worth more
Almost all of the current Hull trading loop is definitely temporary lol
Bey9nd loading yourself or paying to have it loaded, i would be shocked if they didnt move the transaction part to the mobiglass, or at least let you do all the transacting you need to in one strip aboard the stati9n
Because yeah right now it is fucking dumb
Eggs
Do all terminals have different items in demand or is the commodity values you see same everywhere ?
Different locations have different offerings, but not like 100% unique offerings everywhere
!jt
Jumptown is currently active.
new here anyone down to teach me cargo
Use #🤖┃bot_commands please
You can have a look at the trading guide in our #learn-to-play👶old channel or ask a !guide if you want someone to teach you the ropes ⬇️
I sent my refined ores to my Freelancer MAx, but I do not see them in the ship or cargo hold. where are they
Is the cutty black the smallest ship that can fit a 32 scu box? I love the firepower of that ship, the cargo, the missiles, and the turret but I hate the view cuz of the struts
And I like the fact that I won’t need a crew for it in the future when engineering comes out
Wow that’s pretty big, I’ll look into the nomad
'fits' is a pretty bad way to describe what's actually happening lol
Well if you can get 2 or 3 in there surely you can get just 1 easily no? I usually do missions in my cutty and pick up 1 big box and go sell it haha
Yeah it's just, unituitive and bad looking
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I wouldn't expect that to work forever lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKe8-kB2X3k not sure how well knows this is but I just saw this one
Using this little trick you can saving yourself around 5 minutes on each trade run, potentially increasing your hourly profit by around 30%.
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Freelancer is probably the smallest ship that can properly fit a 32 SCU box
On the grid too
MAX can fit two
Cutty isn't on grid, but it fits just fine
I'm not sure if it's on the grid in a lancer ? Is it ? 
The corsair cant fit 32scu boxes right
Not on the grid, but it can easily fit 3x 32 SCU containers off grid with space for 40 more SCU in smaller containers
can you still sell stuff at terminals that isnt on grid?
Yes
I can't find anyone with this issue but it happens to me every time. When I buy cargo and sell it, it works and physically disappears from my ship but the commodity terminal still says my ship has SCU on it
and prevents me from buying any more
Happens every single time after 1 cargo run unless I reclaim my ship, guessing there's no workaround?
Can i use the Hull C for anything other than trade runs atm?
not really
and that's not really ever gonna change, not much anyway. It's a transport ship
it hauls cargo, in one form or another
fair enough, was wondering if it could be used for anything else, even if its bad at it
honestly I prefer Hull C over C2 somtimes but also reversed
depends what i want to do
BUT, i do enjoy hull c
you'll eventually be able to carry other ships on it - more intended for freight purposes, but people have designs of making it like a one-off parasite carrier. I don't see that being all too useful though, better just taking a ship with a hangar so people don't have to just sit in the fighters the whole time
the Hulls are cargo ships, that you might be able to do one or two other things with. I wouldn't buy them for any purpose other than that, not primarily anyway
is there a hot key that turns on and off snapping for cargo ?
i can't seem to snap stuff
its been 3 days and doesnt matter what ship im on or what cargo i move
i can't snap things
no key that I know of. What ship and what cargo (size matters)?
where can i sell Aphorite at
I thought i could over on lorville, but i can't
It keeps telling me Transaction cost mismatch at the admin office when i try to sell it
You can sell it there but you are encountering a bug
how do i fix it
happens to me on, A2, C1, C2, MSR, Catapillar, 890, 600 and Corsair. so 😦 idk what im doing, maybe my character is broken ?
I was hauling gold and beryl in a C2 a couple days ago and a RL situation came up and I let the game connection time out with the ship in deep space. Thought the load was gone for good but decided to not claim the ship for a couple days. Sure am glad I did because the server I was on finally 30k ed and gave the ship back to me with the cargo. That's impressive!
Is trading still not worth it from the lack of supply and demand for items?
Sell less at once
Does the Cutlass black tractor beam have decent visibility yet?
Hey, I started to play not long ago and managed to grind my way to a C2, I looked at SC Trade Tools and it seems that it mainly promote Gold as cargo (make sense since it's the best money out there), but since I have never done it before and heard about pirates 😅 is there something else I should start with so I can get a bit more experience with cargo trading ?
Gold is first route on tradetools but it involves a lot of wait time and pirates. Look for beryl instead, idk why people keep up with gold
By the time you make one full run of gold with a C2, you can make at least 3-4 full beryl runs
Sweet thank you 🙂 yeah it seems it's more or less half of the value in gold but if it doesn't have the downside of the gold it's nice 👌
Both Brio's and and GH have not been buying Widow for ever. I only have 12 to sell but can't for the longest time.
There are few other scrapyards besides Brios.
I have no idea. All I know it's a bug
Why everyone is going to and asking about Brio's, then whine about getting ganked is beyond me. If I had A2, I would occasionally carpet bomb it just for shits and giggles, pop open Smaltz, kick back and bask in tears and raeg in global chat. Fuck looting and salvaging, just enjoy the butthurt.
Or just wait a few minutes
True, I am trying to save up at least 40mil creds, and hope that patchwipe wont also wipe the creds.
How does cargo hauling in a connie taurus compare to prospector mining for profitability?
1 gold run in a Taurus gives like 300k
Gold 
And 1 weevil egg run gives 20 mil 
what site is best for planning trade routes?
Mining Calculator, Trade, Prices, Risks, Profitability, Mass to SCU Converter, Ships List, SCU, Prices and more
better than https://sc-trade.tools?
I stay on the legal end of things
looks like uexcorp only offers info if you already kinda know what you're looking for
Tradetool best in my experience
But try to avoid gold, it involves lots of waiting time and pirates
tradetools looks like a better option as it just needs to know the ship I have and then gives routes
yep, plus offers alternate commodities per location and options to filter out places and commodities
so people can still shoot you at brio's even with commlink..
are the guns not doing anything?
There is no armistice zone at Brio's, what do you mean ?
the auto turrets around brio
There are none
Question: I've been having alot of trouble snapping cargo to ships using my tractor tool, but my friends dont seem to be having this issue. maybe i pressed a cargo snapping hotkey by mistake? is there such a thing to toggle snap cargo ? ships ive tested this on are 890J, 600i, Corsair, Carrack, A2, C2, C1, Catapillar. 😦 is my character broken? its been happening now for 3 days
they aren't auto?

also won't you get crimestat destroying people's ship in brio while there's commlink around?
They aren't at all
There are no turrets around Brio's
Well there's one or two manned gattlings
You will
Not because it's Brio's does it give you the right to destroy people's ships
If the people here don't have CS3 or higher, any hostile action against them will give you a CS
As long as they press charges obviously
lol i won against a griefer ambushing me on the ground and i don't get crimestat cause i press the left bracket to press charges WHILE shooting him, but good to know that it needs CS3+, so this means CS2 is still considered as "friendly"?
Did they have CS already ? Yes CS2 is friendly
no, i got a prompt to press charges when he starts shooting at me
then i killed him, no cs for me
it was actually a 1v2, one person was flying f8c (already red) and starts shooting my ship while i was engaged with his buddy on the ground
Yeah doesn't mean that you didn't get CS because you pressed charges
oh then how
Just that they didn't necessarly pressed charges
Or that they had CS3 already
In that case, they should have a bounty on their had and appear hostile at all times
so even if i get shot and pressed charges, i will still get cs when i kill my attacker?
If they don't have CS3, yeah
that's bullsh*t
so then how do you protect yourself against griefers when selling stuff? stand there and take it?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Lil bit! It's supposed to be it's own loop. My advice is to get a defender, 'cause the second they shoot you they become red and a target.
'course it's a bit broken atm with crimestat being the way it is. The way the runners I know do it is by doing the route but doing it just slightly different, and getting fast charging Quantums
like i said, i do not mind griefers (i lost a 7 million cargo to griefer back when 30k risky salvage loot was a thing) but the crimestat system needs to get fixed so you don't get punished from DEFENDING yourself
Escorts can help. also A2 for bombing the area before selling.
waaaag, that sounds so painful, I am sorry
but this is facts. The CS system works as well as a wet towel, but it should be better soon (tm)
not going to work when the griefer is flying though..
i guess i need f8c as an escort
Question, when stacking physical cargo in ships is it still a issue where you if you stack anything other than the same commodity it may bug at terminal? From YouTube videos it was advised to only stack vertical the same items
Was playing with a guy today and he said he didn’t have any issues stacking at random
you can sell them, top first
if you're quite forgetful, don't stack different types of commodities cause if you sell the bottom one FIRST, everything in that stack will be gone
Ah okay, long as it's a top down sell dont matter whats stacked on what

Anyone else have a problem loading the Hull C at Bijini?
no more than anywhere else
Hmm I bought a mixed load and when I get into the green loading square, it loops a message of loading and paused load. Any work around? Ive tried different servers but still does the same thing
did you buy multiple things in that same transaction? Every time I've tried mixed loads I have to load each individually, with separate trips back to admin
Yes I bought heph and Food during the same trip to admin. Maybe that caused the loading to fail?
I was trying my first cargo run with Beryl now but Orison does not want to buy it, is it because they don't need it, or I need to do something ?
What does it say ?
On the left of the screen
It's under the Cannot sell tab
Uh
I would say, make sure you are at TDD
I just landed my ship on the hangar, do I have to store it ?
You don't
Yeah make sure you're at the right place
That is, TDD, not Admin office or something like this
Is there more than 1 area in Orison with commodity terminal ?
Yes there are mulitple places
Yeah, Admin, and every shop that people sometimes are confused with
ahhhh okay
TDD is on Cloudview Platform (main one) between the Hospital and the Mall
TDD is at Cloudview Center by the hospital
Right, so one more stop 🙂 thank you !
👍
I'm happy you were at the wrong place. Because things will sometime appear in the cannot sell category when should be able to sell it and it's just bugged and there isn't always a way to fix it
What TDD mean btw
Trade and Development Divison
TDD on Hurston is called Central Business District
TDD on every other planet
Thank you, noted !
Hmm I don't see my cargo in the terminal now 🤔
As in, I don't see the cargo grid as a sub category
Sorry, I had to step out. If it's still not working... maybe it's because you got multiple commodities? Last time I tried that, it would only let me do one at a time - buy or sell. Not sure why it let you do the transactions
Thx for the reply. It started last night and still persisting today and all the IC that Ive found were archived/fixed. Just pulled my 2nd Hull C and loaded it with a full load of Food. Trying to bring out the 1st and see if it will load
my suggestion is just to stick with one commodity per trip tbh. Plan it right and you'll never run into supply or demand issues
and just keep in the back of your mind it's a temporary version of the whole loop, heh
could be worse
when I saw Med Supplies with 30k supply, I bought up a whole Hull C's worth
only to learn that not a single station has more than 500 demand despite the supply
my guess is, setup for when Pyro's added, but that's just speculation
Any way to avoid pirates? they just attacked me
what were you carrying?
gold
that's probably why. I think it's recommended to not trade gold due to wait times and pirates.
Between the fact that I'm new and on top of that they attack me on the first try xD Any recommended resources?
Whatever https://sc-trade.tools throws at you when you exclude gold
Don't trade in hot spots. Places that deal in gold are the biggest hot spots right now. Highest value items attract the deepest pockets which attract pirates.
should i be trading gold i have a freelancer max
The more SCU a ship can carry, the more options you have to turn a decent profit. High margin commodities like Gold will make you the most no matter how much hold space, but trading them in bulk also gets more difficult as the buy-in price to fill your hold gets more expensive and it becomes harder to get enough due to limited supply.
If you can trade gold and are fine with the monetary risk, it'll get you more than most other legal commodities, but with a MAX you have a decent amount of cargo capacity so you could also make some OK money on other commodities with a smaller profit margin as well, and they might be more readily available and less risky (due to fewer pirates along the route).
Your call.
kk ty
also can i server hope for gold timers or does it not work like that?
nope,in theory the inventory its shared
The trading stocks are shared across servers of the same region. If you server hop, make sure you change region too.
so i can do it ut change region?
Correct
kk ty
lol didnt know that
How often is the tool being updated ? because a lot of time there are a very low stock or no stock at all for ressources...
Never. No site can tell you stocks in real time. It can only estimate the rate of restocking and tell you the max stock and rate
Most rewarding routes also are the most used and most pirated. Stock is often low because of this
When you arrive somewhere stock is low, just wait 5-15 minutes and it'll go up
Wait in front of the trading terminal, updating it every so often
Thank you, do we know what's the restock timerate ?
Tradetools have them
But again, they're estimations
They're different from a place to an other
Thank you 🙂 I will try a longer route then
I managed to make around 500k in 3hours yesterday, I'd like to think that's good 😅
With what ship ?
A C2, I tried to cargo beryl and some gold from the first few place from the tools
But most of them were low in any resources
Some beryl buy points have almost infinite stocks around Hurston.
Thank you I will have a look 🙂
laranite is good on this moment
does the c1 have enouhg cargo space to make money? good/medium/a bit ass/complete ass
anything with cargo space can make money. whether it's worth your time is another matter, but I'd say the c1 is decent for it. you wouldn't be making taurus or c2 amounts of money, but it'll still be something while also being defendable and perhaps taking some bounties on the side.
ok
hi, question with C2 is how can we load it in futures patch because he is not supposed to have a tractor beam and such quantity of scu to load could be painfull?
There is already a Size2(?) personal tractor beam that you use like rifle to move large containers.
you mean the personal tractor beam size 2?
yup.
Ylou can buy it at cargo floors of space stations.
Are they making that a requirement to move 32 scu boxes in 3.22?
I think it aready is.
Either way having one on hand is just a good idea
Maybe, probably depends on the weight of the cargo. I can pick up 32 scu containers of weevil eggs with the multi tool
is decari pod sellable?
I think at commoditirs and/or KelTo store.
Wait there is a personal tractor beam size 2?
Maxflex tractor beam
That'll eventually won't be a thing anymore
Hoping so i just want that big one anyway cuz it seems cool
anyone having issues with their ships cargo not showing up? Im in the terminal, my ships been stored and ive changed shards but its blan despite being full of quartz
Is it better to do delivery missions with a titan than to do cargo runs due to it only having 8 space and I found some delivery missions in the crusader planet system that pays about 8-15k per delivery mission. Many have the same locations so I'm able to do them somewhat fast too
I would think you could mix the two but most cargo is sold to the TDD's at the planet's cities. Also do not invest more than half your funds into cargo. You could look over the "looking for session" on this Discord for some teamplay where the leader would pay you for your work.
Tdd? That's the commodity store right? Are they not also located on stations in orbit?
I'll check that channel out sometime! Thanks for the tip!
Does anyone know if towing multiple illegal tow missions in a row gives u a Lv 3 CS
The main slang for those 2 core selling spots are TDD, trade and development division, and Admin Stations where other commodities are sold. TDD's are not on the orbital space stations like the Admin Stations are. That's the basics for selling things but there are more details involved.
What is actually sold at admin stations
Waste and scrap are being sold by stations, but you can sell some refined metals, minables, and some consumer products like food, distilled spirits, medical supplies and similar. Check wikis, or write down what stations usually sell. Only difference in this may be the jump point stations.
what tool can I use to find out if any of these are valuable
!tradetools ⬇️
One-stop-shop for everything trade related in Star Citizen: best trade routes, best mining spots, etc.
I wasnt able to sell all my stuff at brios breaker
why wouldnt it let me? I thought scrapyards buy everything off you?
can someone explain what this means
why is no one buying my maze
Cannot sell means they don't buy, go somewhere else
No demand means their stock is high. Wait a few minutes in front of the terminal and stock will go down, at this point you'll be able to sell
But with 260 SCU of maze you're going to wait a long time to sell it all
Scrapyard stock limit of any drug is 250SCU
Lagrange stations and TDD usually buy distilled spirits, as for maze, either wait and refresh console, or find some other place to sell.
No it just gives you multiple cs2s that you need pay off. So like 32k each. You won't be able to land at a station hangar, just try landing pads
Look up best buyer on SC Trade Tools
I soft deathed a pirate. Can I access the cargo without detroying the ship`?
the elevator doesnt work
nevermind the hatch is open a little bit
@tender sky not sure about that. I’ve accepted bounty contracts on towing players on multiple occasions. If you don’t pay off the fines, enough CS2 can add up to a CS3, though it can still be paid off at a terminal.
Hey, for bounty cargo, better to have a Taurus or c1 ?
I actually have Taurus. Great firepower but it’s a big brick. And in atmo fight, is I stay immobile, just aiming targets, the ship fall on the ground
i use the c1 and currently going for hrt's but the lack of missiles to start imo is the only thing missing
I see … thank you
About cargo, any tips to know what ressource to take and what to let ?
Because I take all and price is shit and I can’t sell in the station next to me … how can I take only thing easy to sell and where can I sell ?
Sorry, many questions but I don’t understand 😂
ive been using https://sc-trade.tools/commodities/
its a life saver but i think for my own sanity imma use my buddies Taurus for hrt and up
for Anyone interested Im selling cheap ERTs cargo Eggs , Maze and Quantanium. lower drugs come for free. you just have to pick it up and sell it
you are selling them?
what do you have a massive stash somewhere lol
you can change the c1 missile racks out and get 16 missiles total (smaller size however)
still, it is much better
yeah i got 16 pioneers now
bloodhunter if you need help with them then lmk
with cargo
been striking out on cargo
@tender sky sent you dm
I am also interested, shoot me a dm when u get a sec
I wanna start doing some cargo but idk where to start
I was told to buy the taurus and saved up for it
now what do I do?
how much cash you got to work with?
I still haven't bought it so about 3.6 mil
shoot
simplest answer though: Use this website.
so that would leave me with about 3.5k
350k*
ok that's more usable than 3.5k lol
yeah
anyway, use the site. The Trade Routes tool lets you configure and it suggests the best routes to do based on the settings you set on the left
should I go all in?
I wouldn't
or go with like 100k first
Most I usually go for - when I'm following my own advice - is at most 50% of my float
at any given moment, too
so if I have 200k, and then lose 100k to something
my new max is 50k
too risky for you otherwise?
I mean, it's an alpha, and you can always earn the money back, so who cares in the long run
but yeah
I don't always follow that rule though lol
and with PES or whatever you're much less at risk to 30ks and such since it saves your cargo
so long as you don't claim your ship (and it isn't out in the ether somewhere inaccessible) you can always get to your ship with its cargo intact
since sometimes it'll drop you at your home while your ship is sent back to where you left from or something
anyway, use the tool. Click around the site, figure things out
remember the settings down the left
you can tell it to skip illegals
and to avoid limited demand/supply issues too
but doesn't the taurus have like an unscanable thing on it?
yeah that ain't implemented
and that's also not the issue
you can only sell vices in significant quantities or buy them (period) In places that have no armistice
ie: free PvP
also, very not worth the effort IMO
use the tool, understand the information it presents, and then use your judgment
so I should go with legal stuff for now
but how do you avoid getting caught with illegal stuff
the issue isn't getting caught dude
it's getting blasted by players camping the sites lol
oooooh yeah
I've heard about that
so where exactly can you filter out the illegals?
did you not click around on that page at all?
yeah?
you said bottem left
one click
click all the things
figure out what they do, etc
also, use the Commodities page to your advantage
it'll tell you the inventories/demand amounts, and their refresh rates
which is important for efficiency. If you have to wait around to fill up your hold, it ain't worth trading IMO
and should I upgrade my quantum drive?
rarely a bad idea. Use https://www.erkul.games/ to figure out what one's best for you
there's no best option since best means different things to different people
yo guys quick question. on UEX, is the sell price listed next to the SCU the amount that was made for selling that amount of SCU?
what patch does the , we can kill intruders in our ships without a crimestat come into sc
i held my breath waiting for a reply, then i passed out...........!!!!
you still there? XD
joke aside it will have to wait until trespassing is fully fleshed out
can i store my ship at new babbage even if gold is inside
like will the gold be in the local storage then or gone?
It will be in the ship, you wont be able to phyaically access it, but you can sell it at TDD.
Anyone know if the laranite box bug is fixed ?
hi guys im new to SC, got the aurora MR package and was wondering if it could be used for trading? cant seem to select it as an inventory for when i buy commodities :p
AFAIk, commodities are mostly stuff that you find as a FPS loot. Aurora can carry 3 SCU crates of bigger stuff, mostly being refined metal and some supplies that you can purchase on planetary and lunar outposts that are visible on starmap in mobiglass.
is there a black list app where I can enter user names of people who cut 50-80% of the sale for ERT parties?
if you do the math every time people do this repeatedly to new players, being the "c2 cargo guy ❤️ :D"
No if at outposts
Can you sell anything from the Hull C at the salvage terminals?
When selling commodities, I still enconter the age old bug that I can't buy all of a commodity and have to leave one behind ... AND YET I see the commidity going to 0. I have no idea how others seem to buy the last one.
Anyone know the answer to how the last commodity item is purchased?
my ship is filled to the brim with laranite why wont tdd accept it :/
reee the ship is not stored rip 1.5 mil
the c2 and the m2 have the same cargo grid am I seeing it correctly?
Wait few days is by usggestion. At worst, it will default to your spawn city.
Its why I have multiple ships. To waste time while waiting for servers to unfuck themselves.
The C2 has more space than the M2.
https://i.imgur.com/HpEAlyk.png
i still don't know what's the point of m2's existence
Gunship/bomber escort-bait/supersized Valkyrie.
supersized valkyrie 
MIN MAXING
Make it nice and tidy, otherwise Klang will visit you and punish you.
The M2 has one more seat / turret for a 3rd person, and will have more armor when armor is implemented. So right now it's good for 3 person crews since the C2 only works for 2 people
Also has tons of crew seating and armour lockers
oh god he's here too? F***K
To be fair, I got klang'd last night by trying to fit 3 ships worth of size 3 weapons into my hoplite
I gad Klang claim my Taurus once due to crate clipping trough the floor, and once I exited ship, it bounced into the ship and destroyed it. How the fuck I lived trough that mess is beyond me.
I mean, there was bigass blue exolosion.
what can I do if there is no demand for my weevil eggs
Wait.
okay so I am not forced to go to another scrapyard?
there is no grid left
You are simply built different
@rocky moat You gotta either wait for requirement to reappear (wait like 120 minutes) or go to another area, check out !trade for tools
wait
how do you do that
this
When it was the hayday of salvage contracts being absolutely full of drugs I normally parked my cargo ship with said drugs, stored it and set my respawn to that station then took a C8R with no gear on me to the scrapyards to check the demand.
If the yard was hot I lost nothing and the C8R respawns in 3 mins.
If there was demand or it had just refreshed I backspaced to the station with cargo ship and flew out asap to sell.
You can also convince a friend to check for you before you commit to landing something huge at a scrapyard
i've gone to 3 different scrap yards and waitied probably a total of 30 mins across each of them but i can never sell my weevil eggs.. this a bug? or are others just selling them faster?
Just so you know, this still seems to be the case w/ bounty missions. Took out a freelancer max yesterday and got 3 packs of widow and 2 of neon
Wheres the Hull C thinsg again?
but the number of turrets are the same though?
No, there is 1 more turret on the M2. The C2 has a co-pilot seat that controls 1 front facing underside remote turret, and 1 rear facing topside remote turret. In the M2 there is another "gunner seat" directly behind the pilot which controls a single nose gun turret (still 2x S4s). So the M2 has 1 more turret than the C2.
A2 on the other hand has turrets out of the vazoo.
Yeah, A2 has the same cockpit turret options as the M2, and then another room with 4x turret operator seats.
I gots 40 million aUEC in my ship in terms of cargo Ima better wait for a friend then
how could you even see demand if you dont have the product
When looting a Caterpillar from a bounty, what's easiest way to open it?
always no demand what is going on
He's at one of the no questions asked terminals...
You're just going to have to camp out there and keep checking it every 5-10 mins OR risk salvage yard (not named Brios) visit...
its at the scrapyard on micro - euterpe
ahh... same difference.. just going to have to keep checking and run risk...
Big money though! Congrats
this is the 6th scrapyard I have been checking...
yessir.. that's the smugglers life!
and its all "no demand
yea man... it's rough out there...
so you recommend not going to brio?
i mean its been like this all night
havent been able to sell any SCU of my space drugs 😦
not even the tiniest box of goods
on none of the regions, on none of the terminals
oof... I hit my 30M and called it.. I don't drug run because of this anymore...
it been good all week for me
literally tonight i spend 3 hours going from place to place trying to sell
think it bugged atm
same
there is no way there isnt a single SCU i can sell in 3 hours of sitting in front of terminals
it's possible... seems odd though...
and every server i come in people talking about it and that they havent been able to sell
sounds intentional...
could be as well CIG doin some bamboozling
but i have a big doubt of a human factor playing a role here, there aint no way a org is legit sniping all SCU's of demand within seconds and it not showing at least a few SCU of demand on any of the drugs in a span of 3 hours
I agree with you there...
again. 0 scu sellable
there the eggs wont sell
sorry mate
so they have changed the buy rates across all servers by the looks of it
yeah hearing lot of buzz in all servers i been in about them linking all the servers demand and supply today?
which is premature imo to do right now, but hey we testing things here so i don't really midn it that much. Still the fact i couldn't sell a single SCU after standing at the sell screen for over an hour and refreshing every 30 seconds tells me its bugged
so replication layer is the rumour?
how are you supposed to check demand if you dont have the product on your ship? I went to the scrapyard with my starter but it doesnt show me any inf
Maybe? Supposedly, that is final step before fullon Server Meshing. AFAIK>
Just saw that everyone was having some issues with selling things. Hopefully this issue doesn't last too much longer
I don't think you can see demand of an item unless you use Sc Trade Tool or something like that (a website btw). But you can see what can be sold at places you land at by going to the trade terminal (Admin, Tdd or another one that says Commodities or something on it), and click the sell tab on the right side. It says how much stock the have, how much they pay per unit sold to them. Out of stock or low inventory is good I believe, means that you should be able to sell more to them before needing to wait for their stock to refresh
That was my understanding too. Very exciting progress if it is
any news on if the hull-c is unborked yet?
selling borked for others too?
borked in what context? you dealin in immoral/illegal substances?
Just eggs I get from bounties
It's a demand thing probably
Just sold a million in RMC in one sale. It looks like the demand for RMC in that various selling locations may have been increased over what SC Trade Tools says. Either that or everyone is so busy selling drugs they don't even care about RMC.
What's the range of an idris rail gun?
we don't know, and subject to change
where do you pick up cargo after buying it?
are you flying a Hull C?
Did you buy it into the station inventory instead of your ship?
no I figured out the problem
however idk if tungsten is worth it
is fluorine worth buying
and how do I know if something is in stock?
It'll say low, medium, high, or max stock. It'll tell you out of stock if it is.
Let https://sc-trade.tools/ answer your questions.
Is HUll-C docking fixed, or do you advise not to dock to stations still?
was anyone abke ti sekk tiday
still no demand for maze and gasping weevil eggs it seems
I've been trying for the past 9 hours
On different servers and locations
Constant no demand
Is this like an actual bug?
Nobody knows
I think cargo prices/stocks are shared across all servers
still doesn't explain a lot of people haven't been able to sell a single SCU the past 12 hours
evne if it would be a shared pool of supply/demand for all servers
shame, least i cashed out on some stuff
same here
Selling stuff is completely fucked?
selling illegal stuff is 😛
Ah, I was thinking everything got fucked, included legal goods.
Cant's sell armor, equipment, salvaged weapons either. I bought a weapon from the same terminal and can't sell it back...
From what I've seen it takes a few mins for it to appear in the shop.
When I refitted a few ships the left over weapons in Orison were unsellable. After leaving and coming back they were in the shop selling inventory. Who knows you may need to store your ship full of salvage log out and back in and then try the terminal
Well I noticed we are not seeing he commodity price update messages
If I had to guess that it is tied to a db job that updates the stock values in the db table
so how do you deselect a specific product with sc trade tools
You use the avoid selection filter
How do I sell 44 medguns I got from looting shit? Hospital inventories are now separate from city/station inventories. What do you guys suggest?
If dying in armistice still moves your stuff to hospital inventory could load a large backpack with a bunch then backspace to transport to hospital inventory. Maybe? Haven’t tried it myself before
Or just load a backpack outside the hospital and walk in and move all to hospital inventory
My second idea sounds better actually since its not that far of a walk if you thread the line between the two🤣
came here to check if sellign illegal goos is still fucked?
Yep
Not only illegal, stayed at facility to buy gold and nothing refresh.
As someone said there's no commodities price alert notification anymore
Yep I am fairly certain that they have a DB job which updates the DB tables for shops inventories. Since that job is failing to run, hence no commodities messages we don't get updated inventories at shops
Worse, you cant sell comodities or FPS collectables anymore on EU servers.
Would make sense.
Don't know how long we can expect this to last
Until next week, cuz it is saturday afternoon/evening.
Update: cant trade at all. All trading tetminals are fucked. Comodities, TDD, Station Admins, scrapyards, and other NQAs are all dead.
Yeah guess it's time to switch to another game during this
Are they broken or is it something else?
just eu ? so i could hop on to NA and sell for example?
You cant sell your stuff, and cant buy stuff to trade. You can open/access them without issue.
No idea on other regions, so feel free to try elsewhere. I know EU is fucked though.
I have tried this. No go. We spent an hour flying about trying to sell at differing terminals and no good on 3 different regions
someone said they have trouble in na too ill check some others now
Good luck and let us know how it went.
I am trying to get onto asian server now.
im on AUS now
Same. Cant even sell Neon or Etam
you mean same on AUS?
Yes. I was on AUS, now on ASIA
if anyone gets it work id appreciate a ping
NA also bugged
cant sell shit. tried na and aus
same
ive had this game for a week and everything i try to do is broken. wild
yeah you got a bad timing+
hunt weevil eggs foir hours yesterday find 0, find some today finally, cant sell it, cant do fps missions, cant get crates out of carrack
im TRYING to enjoy the game but jeez.
im in a bad spot too i have like 700k of cargo on my ship and the rental runs out tomorrow if i cant sell till then im kinda fucked
got another ship you can move it to?
I have 110scu of weevil eggs from a vhrt today and no way to sell lol
I agree with you on that, played 6 hours today and pretty much accomplished nothing due to bugs in everything I tried 
I'm going to do the Hammerhead tow mission until the patch comes or just space bounties grind.
you can store it in Lorville. Works so long as you don't get scanned by security
place your bets, cig intended or bug for not being able to sell cargo 📝
why would it be intended
My bet is its intended. They just didnt up the limits and people are constantly maxing it. I'd suggest with the next update that there will be a wipe of cash and ship, with a fix of pricing/demand
There were worst case of people making shit ton of money, with exploit for example, and CIG didn't wipe the money
Are you tlaking the hammerhead bug?
Nah, there was an exploit where you could buy drugs at dirt price if you bought sub one SCU
My body and mind are redy. I have too much junk in inventory.
The bug was you could use the slider to buy a 1/10 SCU of drugs, you would pay 1/10 but you still got a full SCU of drugs
I'm relatively new (2 weeks). I did the hammerhead things to buy a prospector but I had 2 days to make coin. I got that stupid ship. Did mining and realised that I couldnt transport it. So didnt really help me with refined stuff.
The drug things I get because we were getting 10M in drugs nearly every ERT. Fly anywhere and just sell it with not much chance of PVP.
Same here but I don't think the demand not refreshing is intended, people are complaining about not being able to sell legal stuff anymore because of it
It's been bugged for more than 24hours tho, perhaps the issue wasn't reported yet too
Is it a bad idea to buy full C2 of beryl
Seems like currently it would be since you can't sell stuff.
oh really?
Anyway, CIG would gain by letting people get tons of money : let people buy ships with auec and have a ton of fun with them, then wipe so they want to buy it with real money to have them forever
I used the drug glitch back in 3.18 -3.19, bought a reclaimer with the money, lost it after a wipe, now I'm itching to buy one for real
this was ages ago i wasn’t aware this was still a thing
Idk what kinda crack yall smoke to find 10m of drugs EVERY ert. It takes me prolly 5-10 to find a solid haul
Just bad luck I guess. Last haul I got was 86 SCU of eggs and bunch of randoms drugs in a starlifter, and by the time I emptied it, a hammerhead escorted by a second starlifter spawned on top of me from an other bounty of an other player.
I soft dead the other starlifter, scanned it, half full of slam, but I decided to leave when the player showed up to get the Hammerhead
After that my mate and I wasted 2 hours trying to sell at the salvage yard, but all of the consoles had no demand
It's not a thing anymore, it was just an example to show that CIG doesn't always wipe the money when players find a loop/exploit that makes crazy money
either they fix the cargo or mysterious rocks will appear at their window (in starcitizen ofc)
is there still no demand
I'm willing to bet it won't be fixed either until Monday or until they launch the next patch
So is all cargo broke then?
I dunno about all, but most for sure
Enough that I gave up trying to find something not broken lol
Yikes, salvage too?
ya
Pain
indeed
Whatever it is, I suspect it started Thursday at least, since that's when I first noticed Price Alert being dead
Hopefully it is an easy fix
Can the Starfarer load 32 SCU boxes?
theres an issue with the salvage terminals right? does GH work?
Anyone know if GH terminals work for drug sells?
I heard they're just disabled, not bugged
Has RSI said that?
Demand is not reseting and Price Alert gives no price updates, even when there were still shortages back on thursday when this all started
I'm willing to bet it's an intentional bug but until they say something all we can do is speculate
I'm pretty certain something isn't working right
Is it possible to eject cargo?
It used to be Quantanium only but I am not sure now.
is demand fixed?
Seems not, just checked at CRU L4 station to sell drugs and still no demand
Yes, lots
So is selling stuff broken? Im at brios and it says no demand. im ok waiting if its a supply issue, but if its a bug, ill leave
It's a grand sabotage effort disguised as a bug
Definitely bugged, has been since thursday/friday
But yeah likely sabotage because they hate to see us win
They're probably trying to block sales to prevent people from whining as majorly when they wipe for 3.22
Not that have to wipe, but many of us have been pleading for one.
Only because they keep breaking the game
I honestly just want my ASOP terminal cleared out. Bought many / most of the ships in game, and now they're a massive clutter after IAE and I'd like to narrow it down to just the ships I use and none of the noise.
Oh my, so instead of asking for a wipe, as it's inconvenient for those of us whom only buy what what we use, maybe ask for an ASOP Terminal tab organization and favoritism,
Stop knee jerking every issue with a wipe
lol, don't be salty. I'm not the only person that sees there's a need for a wipe. The fact that I have managed to buy over 300mil in ships in games is demonstration that the wipe is needed - and no bug was exploited. CIG just overtuned cargo rewards for salvage and bounty hunting.
It's not like we duped our millions.
I never implied money gains through duplicitous means
I just implied a lot of you ask for the wrong things
CIG is really wanting to clam down with the whole wipe thing
I’ve observed that if you’re not seeing the “commodity price alert” notifications via mobiglass regularly than supply/demand is not working correctly
I have no proof but I’ve been trying to trade a lot the past few days and that’s the pattern I’ve noticed
That's the whole bug mate
👍
Just meant that more like you can use it as a visual cue whether or not it’s worth trying to trade instead of waiting for hours for no purpose
Oooh that's so fair, thank you!
Yeah this is fair, it's odd 'cause in the bit i've been playing Bounty hunting has either been the millions maker of the game or just awful
They will not wipe for 3.22, I would say it's almost certain at this point. They would have announced it, and despite what all you salty tryhards want I don't really see a good reason CIG would choose to wipe this patch. The database seems to be working fine and at this point it doesn't really matter how much money people have. I think they're hoping to not wipe until 4.0
Now hold on partner, I don't think a wipe would be good either, especially since this "salty tryhard" has 21K in game atm XD.
I'm more just commenting on how bounty hunting is always borked, and wish it would be a stable but somewhat worthwhile thing
Plus once a lot of other mechanics (like insurance) come into play, there'll be a constant cash drain that should balance out some bits of the game
For now i just want the commodities refresh to be back, being unable to sell because of no demand is a pain
yeah it's annoying AF, especially 'cause it's affecting selling ship weapons
Affecting too much things, weapons, cargo and other stuff and maybe recycled material in the long term ?
Oh gods that would be horrid if it spreads to RMC
ATM it seems to be affecting the high-ballers from Bounty missions, so Maze, SLAM, WiDoW, Aclutoxin, etcetera
Which is fair, since, as said above, getting ~1 mil per missions is just the tiniest, littilest bit borked to the moon and back
but it's sucky that it means any non-bounty traders get shafted
Yes bounty boxes is unbalances like salvage was before
But yeah traders are blocked, everything like gold and beryl disappeared
not the first time something's gotten completely broken at random
'tis the life of Alpha
this is true!
reason for me would be that a lot, and i mean a LOT of people(check on the issue council just how many people reporting they cant sell their stacks of drugs xD) got rich very quick since first we had the salvaging unbalance where you could get stacks of drugs easily sold, and then the bounty missions that still give stacks of drugs in a little longer timespan.
The Problem with being rich quick, means people grind one aspect of the game way too much, have all the money to buy all the ships, and then lose interest in playing any further cause they reached "end game" and don't play this game for the testing of it, they play it as being a game. Hence CIG losing out a lot of players that do the gameloops, making things being less tested
Doesnt help that bunker have been also bugged this patch.
thats just my 2 cents though, got back a month ago to this game after a 2 year break and been spending quite some time on it, found out last week about the bounties and made about 50 million in said week, which honestly makes the ships i bought not feel earned if that makes sense
yeah true, i been playing that the first weeks i came back cause i was stubborn and just wanted to shoot FPS AI and get to the wave missions which seemed less bugged xD but gave up and became bounty man
Got a question, has anymone managed to get mining outpost ATC to give you landing pad for C2?
but the delivery missions, the trading, mining, hand mining, cave exploration all the other game loops and things that also still need player activity to find bugs and see if issues are fixed are on the backburner for the gross population of the players, cause they see the $$ signs and go bounty hunting
i never ask i just land and refuel
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IC for "Can't sell anything from inventory" bug.
That is a convicing point but I'd say especially right now with the holidays more people would quit if they had to regrind their entire fleet than because they have too much money. Besides, if you're supposed to test and not play it like a game then more resources means more things can be tested
True, though they also need to test gameplay loops and how long it takes for peple to reach those loops. If it takes 15 minutes for someone to get from HRT's to having a carrack, that kinda tosses all balance out the window.
Plus, part of the game is seeing how quickly people get cash and subsequently get bored, and making it so there's a constant enough cash drain to make people need to keep playing to get what they want!
I'm quite confident that these 'unbalanced' earnigns loops are entirely, 100% intentional. No better way to get players to test the mechanics that you need them to test than to throw them a bone. We'll get a wipe at some point, but it's worth remembering we're far from playing a final version of the PU, and I seriously doubt they're losing many sales. Anyone that might be put off from buying an expensive ship because they can easily get it now, in Alpha, wasn't gonna be buying that ship for cash anyway
I think the economy (when the game works) is grossly unbalanced. I think it's done on purpose to drive players to test specific aspects of the game.
That's just speculation from me though. If released to live in its current state, structural salvage will also be grossly unbalanced. Players will try it out naturally and bugs/experience will be discovered more quickly
Oh @graceful kiln beat me to it XD
Yeah
we don't have an economy currently, and won't until the Live version is in a state closer to a 'finished' release. There's honestly no need for it
These points are also fair AF, and actually make sense compared to what I said
but there's also a balance that needs to be struck, and the bounty debacle probably pushes it a bit over the edge
(I say all of this as someone who's gotten above 1 mil all of one wipe, for some reason fighting against something that benifits me)
Some people simulate a wipe for themselves by not letting themselves use a ship they already have on a new patch until they earn that much. They also might give the price of that ship to another player when they pretend to "buy" it
People are figuring out how to keep the experience fun for themselves
This is a very good point, and something that will probably happen in the full release
Dont forget that even after "buying" the ship, there is money to be grinded for upgrades to components too.
though I gotta say, I like the bounties having cargo, 'cause before I learned it was meta me and a bud grinded a bit to buy a hull A to then go in and actually transfer goods
Oh absolutely!
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so has CIG made any comments on the terminals?
AFAIK, nope.
been watching dev chat two days ago so far nothing but thats all im looking at
Fully see your point and after reading the comments after yours this also all holds true.
Personally speaking , I wouldn’t mind a wipe but like earlier people said above, this whole rocking the economy from salvage to bounty to the next thing might also be a 200iq move by CIG to test and push people to play certain aspects of the game.
Only thing I Wished for if that’s the case, is if it was more apparent with any type of communication on their end, cause the sudden stop of demand for just drugs that people mainly made from bounty feels abrupt and purposefully done. Which makes me worry the next step would be to nerf the whole bounty loop into the ground which would be a shame.
Like another person said earlier, it is hella fun and exiting finding a bounty with a massive cargo of drugs, it just needs to be rare enough so it also has more value for the player as an unique event that they will be extra excited about cause it’s rare
afaik the devs dont work on weekends so it will prolly be picked up tomorrow. Also it has the most upvotes and comments on the Issue Council atm, with a heap of duplicate reports so there is no way they wont see it first thing tomorrow xD
they are internally testing increased ship prices sooo...
from what i seen they said it was only for the EPTU, those prices
yes, it didnt seem intentional. it leaked into that build
plus CIG has shown in the past they arent as short sighted to just make it even harder for newer players to buy ships
imagine starting on 3.22 with increased ship prices, with all the current big money makers fixed and having to earn 4 million for a first ingame bought ship, whilst doing box missions in your aurora
where can you sell weevil eggs?
theyre definitely not going to do it 3.22. i didnt say that. im saying that theyre testing it out internally for the future
ahh gotcha
sorry misread that. Saw a lot of buzz about people fearmongering that 3.22 was gonna have triple the ship prices as is in EPTU
right now no where my friend sadly
all the demand for drugs has dried up since friday in game, not refreshing their stocks so no one is able to sell drugs as of friday
I've been able to sell other drugs though
sucks for me because i enjoy the loop
today
same Unstowed, same. Its like gacha, seeing what you get from what ship
what kind of drugs ?
altrutoxin seems to be the only one where the demand frees up a little bit over time
all the others seem hard locked
etam, slam, altru, neon
🤔 big quantities?
maybe not massive but it sold
like this many people arent able to sell any drugs this weekend, and that is the people that put in effort to report and go trough the effort of putting it in there
did you have to wait or just slam it in there and sell it
just sold
gotcha
can't remember the exact amount I sold
did you do it often this week or first few batches sold?
literally like 30m ago I sold that stuff
this is what I got out of them
etam 85k
altru 160k
neon 43k
not a lot but the day before I couldn't sell any xD
gotcha, yeah those are smaller numbers, still some of it apparently yeah
might be slowly getting back on then? I dunno. What server and what location?
also sorry for the barrage of questions haha , trying to wrap my head around the whole thing
but its synced between servers no?
yes and no, havent seen a clear statement on that from CIG and personally never ran into any demand issues untill this friday, and 250 SCU per 16 minutes would be way more full if it was linked between server the past weeks with everyone on the salvage grind and the bounty grind
but some people say its linked so i dunno, personally dont think so since 250 scu in 16 minutes is filled by one person alone if you have a good ERT mission, let alone the hundreds of server all together
so we wouldve seen the demand filled way more often last couple weeks if that was the case.
true I guess
The only reason I have to think servers aren't linked is that I used to, before this bug, could jump from server to server while bedlogging in my ship and sell once demand was met in one server
yeah that as well
I just wanna sell the first eggs I've found 
It's not only drugs
I stayed at Shubin Mining Facility SCD-1 yesterday for 30min and the stock of gold never came back, same for beryl
I might be wrong but it seems it's all the commodities system that became frozen
Has stated before we don't see the notification for the commodities price altern anymore
You aren't wrong, selling anything at all is bugged
That's how I feel, I did one VHRT yesterday and got 110SCU of eggs, first and so far the only time i've ever found any lol
woah nice
how much do the eggs even go for?
110k per scu
damn
oh i didn't know! Makes sense though with the notification for commodities not popping anymore
also just managed to sell a tiny fraction of drugs as well, but it was on a fresh server
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you sold some? where?
don't matter friend it was like 5 scu of e'tam and 2 scu of widow
and was on a fresh server, now it all full again with no demand
Personally I think if devs want to add timewalls to items, at least make them fun and enjoyable.
Personally all of the other money avenues now are just not very enjoyable in their current state.
its broken af though. There is no fun be had to make 100 million in a week . What to do after that? sure, the first 100 mil is fun sure, buy all ships and fly m for abit. But that novelty wears out really fast for a lot of players, which makes m bored and they stop playing
never talked about timewalls though dunno where you got that from, all i think they need to do is tune down that every other ship in ERT and VHRT has its full cargo filled with drugs, and make it a 1/10 or 1/20 encounter, or a special mission after doing a certain amount of bounties in a row. Just spitballing there. All i know is that the current state is too OP, no matter how people try to spin it, earning up to 20 million a ERT bounty if your lucky is just bonkers
People having any luck selling?
only managed to sell like 5 scu for the past 2 hours, was just after a server reset and after that no more demand freed up
You mean like a server 30k ed?
so it still going on, i expect like tomorrow this will either be adressed or fixed
yup, got a fresh server with over 20 server fps and low pop
everyone woke up and was standing at the ship reclamation pads at the space station, and i raced to devlin
I think for this, it really hurts the players that are trying to do illegal cargo "the right way"(buying and selling). The people that are exploiting(playing a mission/doing an action that shouldnt be possible or is not intended) the game with this whole ERT thing are ruining it for those that are trying to do legitimate runs
and like what @ruby dirge said, it stops being fun rather quickly
and is completely unbalanced to other gameplay loops as well
i mean exploiting is a bridge too far for my taste, since it's using a game loop provided to us. Exploiting would be the million duping people did back in the day
I think that the ships that are in ERTs/VHRTs should have no cargo or just the cheap stuff.
should have defined my terms
i mean it adds a big fun aspect imo to have a small chance of finding a drug ship once every so often, but it has to be rare
Really they need to just make eggs and maze happen VERY infrequently and in only small quantities.
this
that can work as well
I mean, I was about to go do illegal cargo with my C1, running drugs by buying them somewhere and transpolrting them somewhere else, but I guess thats not gonna happen
still if you read up a bit people made a very solid argument for this maybe being intentional by CIG to drive people toward testing bounties and getting cargo out of the bays of the soft-death ships
I mean, yeah
yeah this is the big downside right now
but still, making it have you make 20 million is kinda insane
oh 100% agree on that haha