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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSmall business
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    1 month ago

    In Starsector markets have infinite money, but the per-unit price actively drops the more of a good you offer. Combined with sky-high taxes if you’re not selling on the black market (which has its own gotchas), this makes it impractical to earn a profit off of hoarding a single good. You’re expected to watch the intel feed for market shortages and take advantage of their desperation if you want to make it as a bulk trader. Or be a little sneaky and create a shortage yourself.

    It’s one of only a few games where trading requires more than finding a good route and traveling back and forth. It’s surprisingly fleshed out for a title that’s mostly focused on combat.


  • I was still running a Q6600 (a 2.4 gHz quad core from 2007) until a few years ago. It ran most things acceptably for its entire life - it wasn’t until around the time of PS4 Pro/Xbox Whatever ports that it could no longer keep up, and even that was largely due to the other components I was restricted to on such an old motherboard.

    That thing was also a tank. The CPU cooler was stock and the thermal paste had degraded and separated to the point it idled at 65c, but I never had a single hardware fault in nearly fifteen years of running it. I kind of miss it.