Finding System that buys Living Glass

[Sir Lootalot]

Hey fellow Discoverers,
I have been playing No Mans Sky for more then 60 hours now and finally managed to build myself a small Living Glass farm. I made my first harvest and now trying to find a system that will buy my Livining Glass.

My questions are:

1. How many times in avaraged do you have to change systems to finally find one where they
buy Living Glass in the spacestation. So far yesterday i was about jumping from system to
system for 1.5 hours and didnt even find one. I would say that i visited around 20 different
system and non of them would buy my Livining Glass.

2. Do only space stations buy Living Glass or can i also find random NPCs in spacestations or
trading ports who will buy Living Glass and do tradingports also buy Living Glass?

3.Apart from all the videos out there, do you have any tips on finding Systems for selling specific
self crafted items faster for example type of economy or something like that. I looked on a No
Mans Sky wiki where they explained all the different economy types and the itmes they sell and
buy but non of them were self crafted high value items.

If this question has been asked before i apaologise and hope someone would send me a link to the discussion.

[darkflemish]

Get the blueprint Economy scanner. Install it in your ship.
Go to rich, wealthy systems with a good economy.
If the price is above base price sells all your living glass togehter, otherwise the price will go down
Success

[Faceplant]

You can sell living glass at any galactic terminal. What makes you think you can't sell it?

[Sir Lootalot]

@Faceplant8
Ok, i thought that when you are in the selling menu of any spacestation they list all the items they are willing to buy from you. The items you have are highlighted the other items the spacestation would buy but you dont have are darker( not highlighted). Or did i not see something there.

[Sir Lootalot]

Ok, just checked it out. My mistake was that i thought in the selling menu the game would also display everything i have in my inventory and my ship but the ships inventory is not displayed.
Sorry was my mistake.
Thanks for the Help.
@darkflemish Thanks for the tip, allready have one

[Grad]

Living Glass farm? jeez lol I must be way far behind lol I just got the poop plant haha

[Marzipan]

A thing you might want to consider is to sell as much of your LivingGlass as you can in one go. The price in the system will drop significantly after you sold an item, and to sell a second charge is usually not worth it.
I generally do not sell anything below its indicated galactic average price (per item), and I have a big 48 slot Hauler (just in basic config) filled up to his maximum when doing so.
Selling to other flying npc traders requires to have the items in the exosuit and I don´t have too many slots left there most of the time to sell an substantial amount of items.

[Faceplant]

@Sir Lootalot: That makes sense. They are different inventories.

@Marzipan: I've never seen the price of living glass change after selling. That only applies to mined resources AFIK.

[Marzipan]

@Faceplant8: Mmmh, I don´t know why those Gek are always trying to get the better of me on a second trade offer...
I just sold a bunch of CircuitBoards and CryoChambers and the price of the CB´s dropped below half of the initial trade offer (that is for 175 of them sold)...
My trading skills need improvement, I have to work on that ;)
(I had only 2 LivingGlass to trade in and check prices atm, but even with just one sold there was a price decrease visible for me... a small one; so I guess it all depends how many items you sell on your first go).

[BaneBlackGuard]

it drops for the high priced trade goods. that's what i what i buy and sell. after you sell a first batch, the price drops. so i buy just enough of an item that fits in my hauler, then buy a different item till the hauler is filled, etc until the freighter and hauler is filled. you don't make as much money as crafting stuff but it's faster and seems less grindy to me. with the added benefit of matching my playstyle. i use trade routes to determine what star system i'm going to go explore next.

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by Marzipan:

@Faceplant8: Mmmh, I don´t know why those Gek are always trying to get the better of me on a second trade offer...
I just sold a bunch of CircuitBoards and CryoChambers and the price of the CB´s dropped below half of the initial trade offer (that is for 175 of them sold)...
My trading skills need improvement, I have to work on that ;)
(I had only 2 LivingGlass to trade in and check prices atm, but even with just one sold there was a price decrease visible for me... a small one; so I guess it all depends how many items you sell on your first go).

I have never seen that with living glass and circuit boards, but I usually sell them directly from my base. I know I've also traded with random ships that come into my freighter, sometimes with multiple trades, and I've never seen a price difference between trades.

Do you have a galactic terminal in your base/freighter?

[Marzipan]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Do you have a galactic terminal in your base/freighter?

I do have one in my freighter and I just used it for the first time to sell my next harvest of LivingGlass (2) and CircuitBoards (4).
Selling one LivingGlass decreased my price by 2000units (same tendency for CB). It went from 676k units to 674k. Not really significant when you sell in small numbers.
Calling my freighter into another system with a different economy brought the initial trade price for LivingGlass back up to the same 676k units and dropped it like before after selling one.
I play normal mode (all this was without any mods) and usually sell my crafted products in big numbers at Galactic Trade Terminals in spacestations and trading platforms/outposts... Dunno, I seem to be a bad luck trader. Let´s just leave it like that ;)

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by Marzipan:

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Do you have a galactic terminal in your base/freighter?

I do have one in my freighter and I just used it for the first time to sell my next harvest of LivingGlass (2) and CircuitBoards (4).
Selling one LivingGlass decreased my price by 2000units (same tendency for CB). It went from 676k units to 674k. Not really significant when you sell in small numbers.
Calling my freighter into another system with a different economy brought the initial trade price for LivingGlass back up to the same 676k units and dropped it like before after selling one.
I play normal mode (all this was without any mods) and usually sell my crafted products in big numbers at Galactic Trade Terminals in spacestations and trading platforms/outposts... Dunno, I seem to be a bad luck trader. Let´s just leave it like that ;)

Maybe it's just such a small amount I never noticed. I only sell in batches of 8 or so. Selling large batches of something like emeril or gold will drop the price very noticeably.

[hanleymark]

Something to keep in mind... When you make a sale at your personal trade terminal the price of a given commodity will in fact drop. However, it will climb again given time. I was harvesting enough for 5 circuit boards at a pop and by the time my maxed exosuit was full again the price was back where it was when I last sold a load. I never had to go anywhere. I just flew around for two hours looking for monoliths to build language skills.

After two hours, return, harvest, build boards and store in suit, repeat. I was on a "lush" planet with no storms so I didnt need zinc or titanium to keep the suit charged and mined stray plutonium to keep the launch thruster and MT charged.

Later, that changed to fusion initiators with gas harvesters on the planets in my system. My base was 15 second flight from portal so every 30 min I would portal around, harvest gas and minerals, build the initiators, store in suit and repeat. Big bucks in initiators but really BIG grind. Totally worth it though.

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by hanleymark:

Something to keep in mind... When you make a sale at your personal trade terminal the price of a given commodity will in fact drop. However, it will climb again given time. I was harvesting enough for 5 circuit boards at a pop and by the time my maxed exosuit was full again the price was back where it was when I last sold a load. I never had to go anywhere. I just flew around for two hours looking for monoliths to build language skills.

Why not just sell 5 circuit boards at a time? The price drop is apparently insignificant, and I'm sure it must rebound by the time you would be ready to sell the next batch. I sell 8 living glass every half hour and 8 circuit boards every two hours and have never noticed any price drop. I'm sure I would have noticed if it became significant.

[hanleymark]

Nope, The price didn't rebound enough. I suppose I could have sold after 10 or 15 but I was just on a roll, and selling 143 at a time made more sense to me. But hey, whatever works, right? Whatever you farm and however much you make from it only matters if YOU have fun doing it.

Additionally, before I was using bio-domes I found that the price I got for boards was affected by the complexity of my base. I remember putting in a planter for carbon and the price I got for boards dropped. I removed the planter and the price went up. Go figure...

Pleasnt journey Traveller!