Hello all,
I have been playing STO for a while now and I love it
I am about to reach lvl 32 (long treasure hunts, yumm) and in the process of clearing out sector 9 on my island. I have a decent economy with most of the buildings bunched up nicely around storehouses (Thanks SageSmurf, your Efficient building placement tutorials really helped!) etc.
But as most of us if not all, I regularly have a surplus of some resources or lack of others. So, naturally I trade. That made me thinking, if I can trade, should I really be 100% self sufficient? Can I produce certain goods and then trade them for what I need?
The answer is not that simple. Of course you can, but you have to be very careful in planning your operations. Here are some questions that I had to answer:
- The goods you will be selling - are they desired? You can produce 1 million water every day, but will there be enough demand? And if there is, will it be profitable for you to sell at the exchange rate the market offers?
- The goods you will be purchasing - are they available? You can plan to buy 10 thousand steel swords but if there is not enough supply, you will either miss your target or be forced into spending a fortune.
- And perhaps the most important of them all - can I achieve more by trading than producing everything myself?
Only after I got positive answers to all the three of these questions I started planning the next move.
This will be as an introduction to the topic In the future I plan to post numbers and general directions on how to increase your income via trading.
Thanks,
Mark