How do the automatic trades work?

[DiamondDuty]

How does the internal market work with automatic trades? I am trading 100 food for 2 energy per unit. The bottom number is 1,000.
So, what is the bottom number, and how do I decide on a price for an item and does this food I am magically buying come from somewhere?

Thanks in advance, I think this update is shaping up, I like it personally.

[Knight]

Every time I try to have a go at it screams you do not have sufficient resources, when I obviously do.

[HacaPotato]

you guys are trying to bulk sell resources, what you want to do is go to the box on the right and select the resources that you want traded every month.

[DiamondDuty]

Originally posted by HacaPotato:

you guys are trying to bulk sell resources, what you want to do is go to the box on the right and select the resources that you want traded every month.

I was doing that. If I am doing something wrong, please explain. But here is what I did personally:
Also, side note, I was not using bulk market.

I went to market, went to automatic monthly trades. Now, I am making 230+ minerals per month, but am at -10 energy. So I figured I would trade some excess monthly minerals for energy credits. so I put 75 minerals a month and set the price under it to 1 per unit.

What am I doing wrong? Also, what is the total number at the bottom? What does that represent and do?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers! :)

[jacobellinger]

instead of selecting how much you want to trade for you just set how much you want to buy every month. unless you DO want to sell then just select the sell option and in both cases leave the other section blank. the only time the other one becomes important (though arguably not really important) is late gme once the galectice market is astablished because you can take a look at how much the market is fluxuating and tell your monthly buy or sell to only do it if the price for buying or selling is at/above/below what you want.

generally speaking just filling out the sell option and leave the other blank if you want to sell monthly and fill out the buy section and leave the sell option empty if you just want to buy something monthly.

[cooltv27]

Originally posted by DiamondDuty:

set the price under it to 1 per unit

this means you wont sell the minerals unless you get 1 energy per mineral, which is very unlikely. just leave that box blank

[Sabaithal]

Everyone bear in mind, if you have trade that is not being used, the excess trade is converted into energy credits most of the time. If you are going negative all of a sudden despite doing the math beforehand, that may be why.

[DiamondDuty]

Originally posted by jacobellinger:

instead of selecting how much you want to trade for you just set how much you want to buy every month. unless you DO want to sell then just select the sell option and in both cases leave the other section blank. the only time the other one becomes important (though arguably not really important) is late gme once the galectice market is astablished because you can take a look at how much the market is fluxuating and tell your monthly buy or sell to only do it if the price for buying or selling is at/above/below what you want.

generally speaking just filling out the sell option and leave the other blank if you want to sell monthly and fill out the buy section and leave the sell option empty if you just want to buy something monthly.

Ooooooooooh, wow, for some reason despite it being optional, I figured I needed to set the prices.
I see now, you just helped me big time, thank you! :D

Cheers! :)

[DiamondDuty]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Everyone bear in mind, if you have trade that is not being used, the excess trade is converted into energy credits most of the time. If you are going negative all of a sudden despite doing the math beforehand, that may be why.

How do you tell if you have excess trade?

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by DiamondDuty:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Everyone bear in mind, if you have trade that is not being used, the excess trade is converted into energy credits most of the time. If you are going negative all of a sudden despite doing the math beforehand, that may be why.

How do you tell if you have excess trade?

If you hover your cursor over the empire energy icon, it should dropdown a list of factors both providing and depleting your total energy usage. If trade is a factor, it will be on that list with a value. The values are not huge most of the time, but they can be enough to throw off estimates.