Just wondering if anyone has ever tested the difference in amount of creds that can be earned selling off quip at unupgraded XXB ports while testing mcic values as opposed to selling an entire load at a fully upgraded XXB port? I realize this will burn fuel moving along and also will burn turns buying fuel along the way. Other part of the question is whether this must be done manually dropping figs and moving planet or if there is a script available that will fig sector...go back and move planet...then sell quip and buy fuel? If not perhaps a macro would provide the needed options? Thanks!

I have played with this yes. In the long run, better to go with upgraded "good" ports. Doing it to test is on thing, but day after day is does not yield as much, more pwarping, and usually using worse ports..

Jhereg

Let me think it through out loud. Let's say you have a pretty good map of the universe from probing. You know nearby port types. Let's estimate an average of 3 hops between SxB ports. 3 Hops x 400 Fuel Ore for PWarp = 1200 units Fuel ~= 5 turns in a Colt to refuel. So if you had to first fig any of those sectors, it would be more turn efficient to use a 2 TPW ship loaded with Equipment and test MCIC values from the ship, without completing the sell, thereby keeping the port % where it was. To take this a step further, you should probably have a 2 TPW ship with a decent export range for scouting xxB ports, and a Colt at you Planet's location. Then scout nearby sectors for decent xxB ports in the 2 TPW ship, export to the Colt and bring in the Planet for selloff/buydown.

FC, I have a beta available of a Haggle routine that can do the MCIC derivation as I outlined above. PM me if you're interested, or follow the link in my signature for more info.

It is an interesting idea for a script though... WorldPTrade

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What he’s asking for sounds more like a cross between a planet girder and world ptrade.
You could set it up with the right macros and a corpie on with a bot running.

It depends a lot on game settings such as port density, port regen rate, max regen, planetary trade percentage, MBBS or not, 250 holds or 255 holds, and so on... Generally with most of the popular edits you are better off selling at upgraded ports, however selling at unupgraded ports is a good way to get the cash to get the upgraded ports going. On the other hand if the regen rate is only 5% then it's not worth upgrading ports as it takes too long to get your investment back.

From what I've seen, just ptrading at the best MCIC unupgraded ports doesn't net you much more then just hitting all the xxB ports when you take into account the cost in fuel. Your best bet would be to skip the ports with MCIC's in the lower 20 percentile.

You could use two scripts to do this. First lay a grid with an explorer/gridder script that tests MCIC's as it goes. Then feed the resulting sector list into a ptrade script.