How does the Price heat map work?

[Joseph Sneed]

The way this map is colored is really confusing as both settings show the same light dark pattern. Is the darker area supposed to be where its cheaper / more abundant or the light area? Also what is even the difference between the two settings as they seem to be showing the same hot/cold pattern?

[Nightskies]

IIRC, a quick test with a ship set to sell yeilds higher profits in the brighter red area... meaning higher sales prices. The brighter blue area is the opposite- lower prices. Its probably directly related to production locations and demand, both protecting in an area.

Not sure about the alternate setting. But setting up a ship to sell and trying the different areas should help identify which is which, if they're hard to discern.

[Luke]

Hi price usually correlates with high demand, so your heat maps should usually be opposite from each other, I think.

There are sometimes differences depending on what stations are nearby, and you can get extreme cases of high supply even if prices are high because price is capped at +/-30 but supply/demand has a wider range.

I'm not sure if supply also effects the speed of procurement missions, so if you're trying to source parts for your turret factories and you care more about time than price, maybe you want to look at the supply map, I'm not sure.

[rickcarson]

When you have the trading system installed you get an extra UI option which gives you a list of goods, ordered by demand (high demand first) up to +30%.

The colouring in the galaxy map heat-map corresponds to the colouring of the good in this list.

[derpasorus-rex]

doesnt the trading subsystem also boost selling tasks as well?

[rickcarson]

Originally posted by derpasorus-rex:

doesnt the trading subsystem also boost selling tasks as well?

I defy you to find any references to the trading subsystem in the code for any of the galaxy map missions.

[Darkside99x]

Originally posted by rickcarson:

Originally posted by derpasorus-rex:

doesnt the trading subsystem also boost selling tasks as well?

I defy you to find any references to the trading subsystem in the code for any of the galaxy map missions.

Did you?