How do I use the Galaxy Map's View tab to see where I can sell commodities?
Before I started playing Elite: Dangerous I hit a few newbie guides so I'd get a sense of what to do. This site suggested:
First, you need to find a commodity with Medium to High supply at the station you are docked at. Then you should check your Galactic map to see which Stations in your jump range offer decent prices for that commodity. You can check this by going into your Galaxy Map and heading over to your VIEW tab.
Next, make sure you select the Commodity you are looking for. For this instance, we want to sell H.E. Suits, so we select them in the Technology dropdown. Through this, we can see that a station in the Dahan system is within our jump range, and they will purchase our H.E. Suits for a decent price.
However, I tried doing that and I can't make heads of tails of the lines on the map. I followed the line to what I thought it was telling me was a station that would buy them for a decent price, and ended up at just another station selling them for the price I'd bought them at.
How do I actually read the Galaxy Map's View Tab?
Best Answer
I've never managed to get reliable results from the Galaxy Map when it comes to trade routes. However, my usual approach is as follows:
- Identify the system that I'm going to fly to (usually because I'm heading in that direction, or going there for a mission)
- Select it on the Galaxy Map and buy any updated trade data (I'm not actually sure what this does, but it's cheap and can't hurt)
- Go to the Commodity Market in change the last column to show what goods are exported to the system that I'm planning to visit.
- Scan down the list to see goods that are in High supply where I am, and Exported To the destination. Remember or note down these goods.
- Switch the last column back to Galactic Average, and look for which of the goods that I noted down have the greatest gap between their sell price and the Galactic average.
- Buy some - trying to get more than one thing if possible to hedge.
This isn't always reliable, but that seems realistic. Note that some systems have stations with different economies (e.g. Agricultural or Refinery) which will import or export different items, so just because a system wants something you can't be sure that the station that you're going to will. You can usually make a sensible guess at this based on the info on station economy on the system map.
Pictures about "How do I use the Galaxy Map's View tab to see where I can sell commodities?"
Galaxy Map Mastery | No Man's Sky 2021
Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Images: Pixabay, Brad Switzer, Pixabay, Grafixart_photo Samir BELHAMRA