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Simple Trading Rules

By ESM

Some simple trading rules, that will keep gaining resources.

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Languages: English

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8 Nov, 2019 @ 4:50pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Preamble

Direct Trade in Reserve Currencies (aka The Basics)

Secondary Trades (aka More Cash Cows)

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Preamble

These are some simple trading rules, that you can use to keep gaining resources.

You can keep using the trade cycle described in the first part, to simply increase your trading capital of reserve currencies directly.

You can use the second part trades to gain secondary resources, that can be traded back to reserve currencies of another race.

Direct Trade in Reserve Currencies (aka The Basics)

Keep making the following trades, to come away with huge gains in each race's reserve currency:

Citadel - Buy Platinum and Gold
Vanderi - Buy Platinum and Gold
Ulooquo - Buy Titanium and Cobalt
Saurid - Buy Cobalt

Secondary Trades (aka More Cash Cows)

Make the following additional trades in secondary resources, to end up earning even more reserve currency of the Vanderi and Ulooquo.

Citadel - Buy Chiralite
Vanderi - Sell Chiralite
Ulooquo - Buy Chiralite, Sell Yttrium
Saurid - Buy Yttrium

10 Comments

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Mr.Kill 20 May, 2020 @ 11:06pm

@Gibb
Trading stuff like adamantine for titanium very quickly gives you thousands of titanium to build kick start your ship. The game actually screws you over by locking resource gain rates behind story progress so if you don't know about this, the resource trade system is literally you're only way to get a good ship early.

Genoscythe 21 Jan, 2020 @ 4:58pm

Tyncoeden -> Buy Adamantite or Titanium with Neutronium you bought at the citadel. Best cycle for me is: Buy Platinum in the Citadel and buy more Titatnium from the Uloquo (Infinite upcycle, 4 Titanium for 1 Platinum at Citadel, then 1 Platinum for 10 Titanium at the Squidmen) until you can expend spare Titanium for Neutronium which trades for lots of Titanium and Adamantite from the Tyncoeden.

Old Man Gibb 13 Jan, 2020 @ 4:10pm

I have yet to find a reason to trade, Some one please explane it as 30 min in a asteroide field and you have all the stuff you need for a very long while.

Humsas 29 Dec, 2019 @ 2:20pm

Best way to make many many resources is to buy everything except Yttrium from Ulooquo, then buy everything except Neutronium from Saurid. And then sell everything except main resources to Vanderi. After that go to Citadel sell all the Cobalt you received and then buy Chiralite, Gold, Platinium and Neutronium.

Repeat it a few times and you are set for life.

Akhlys 21 Dec, 2019 @ 5:51pm

On my third they became available to trade. huh.

Akhlys 20 Dec, 2019 @ 10:15am

Just rechecked and in both my playthroughts it was the same: saurids only say "I'll pass your requests along". I destroyed the chitik base in both playthroughts as well. As well as hundreds other chitik ships. My commander never said anything as well. I'm not sure when I first asked them to trade on the second run but I'm sure I asked the first saurid I saw on the first run because I always exhausted all dialoge options.

Lioncamp 17 Dec, 2019 @ 9:37am

you can trade with the saurids by asking the first one you see to trade..
then it takes a while for a trade agreement to be accapted. just check back with the commander of the station, eventually she will inform you of said agreement. then you can trade with them

[TE] Kuraudo 17 Dec, 2019 @ 3:34am

Saurids were the first people I traded with. Did you blow up the forward base for them?

Akhlys 14 Dec, 2019 @ 9:19am

Not only are the aranoa missing.. but how do you actually trade with saurids? they always say because of the war they can't and I'm unable to find their home system, if it's there

RawrKitteh 16 Nov, 2019 @ 2:16pm

What about the Araona?

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