Ports with the best market%? Possible best market %?

[ledgeri [HUN]]

Where are they? What is the limit?

[Beltneck]

Why even worry about that?

For the extra 1-2% you'd make selling a ship somewhere else, you lose a lot more trying to ship it there - just on the cost of setting up a new route.

Your largest operating expense is fuel. Then advertising. Everything else is pennies on the dollar, even buying new ships. They all pay for themselves early in their operating life if you did your routes right.

[ledgeri [HUN]]

What if i would check it before buying the ship?
What if from 2 same-parameter port in a new route i would select that one what is regionally the highest?

Anyways, i heard 97%-ish mentioned, saw 94%-er. All just coast (vs airliner) so not that complicated... i though these are known things.

[Beltneck]

Originally posted by ledgeri HUN:

What if i would check it before buying the ship?
What if from 2 same-parameter port in a new route i would select that one what is regionally the highest?

Anyways, i heard 97%-ish mentioned, saw 94%-er. All just coast (vs airliner) so not that complicated... i though these are known things.

Just do that math. Take the difference in sale value between two ports, and compare it to the cost of making a new route(s) just to get the ship over there. You'll see its not even worth thinking about.

The repair state and leftover drydock hours of a ship do a lot more to affect the resale value, and fixing either of those numbers is going to cost more than the extra you'll earn from a resale.

A ship's Hours-to-drydock is a more useful metric for determining what you should purchase. Because that determines the ship's operating life, and a longer life means more profit before it needs to be replaced.

Should never waste your subsidized repairs on ships worth less than $200 million either. Just sell the ship when its at the end.