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People with Tycoon 4/5: do you actually use (most of) all orders?
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Harry Flowerpot
Three-Headed Monkeys
#1 - 2016-09-02 17:47:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Harry Flowerpot
I am just curious: I am a station trader. The items I am trading have lower volume but a nice payout. I understand that cheaper high volume sales would lead to the same profit but I am wondering whether it is actually worth having to go though 200+ orders for this.
Tesal
#2 - 2016-09-04 02:08:53 UTC
If you only sit in Jita trading a narrow range of goods you probably don't need lots of orders. There are a couple of cases in my past where I maxed out my Tycoon orders. I used to buy salvage covering 11 regions. I would then do hauler contracts to bring the salvage to Jita for sale. I would buy at a very low rate and sell at a high rate. I added data cores to supplement that. I also bought and sold POS gear in Jita back when they were NPC items. POS gear takes a while to trade with many items taking weeks or months to sell. I would set and update every few days. I used all my orders doing that. If you don't want to work very hard, just put up lowball orders and check them once a month. The more orders you have, the more likely you are to fill them.
TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#3 - 2016-09-04 05:23:31 UTC  |  Edited by: TheSmokingHertog
Yes, try trading in 25 regions. With 12 types of goods to sell, you will have reached 300 orders in an instant.. And then you still have to buy them or the resources to build them...

Current: https://puu.sh/qZhak/c3a7226869.png < 27 open... if I run my replenishment sheet, they will be filled again in no-time.

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Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#4 - 2016-09-04 13:53:13 UTC
I have multiple tycoon V chars, and rarely use more than 30 orders on each. But, I do station trading.

I know someone with 10 Tycoon Vs, who does region trading, and always uses all orders.

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TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#5 - 2016-09-04 14:27:02 UTC
Ah, btw, I have 6 toons on Tycoon V.

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voetius
Grundrisse
#6 - 2016-09-04 17:09:58 UTC

I have 2 Tycoon IVs and a Tycoon V, they are all pretty much maxed out in trade skills apart from Tycoon, e.g. they all have contracting and corporate contracting V, margin trading V etc. The Tycoon V has about 100 - 150 sell orders up most of the time and a few buy orders, the other two tycoons probably around 10 - 20 sells at a given time.
Cooyaw
State War Academy
Caldari State
#7 - 2016-09-13 07:26:23 UTC
I made a mint back in 2013 during the fountain War with for Tycoon 5 Traders I sold 2 of them and I'm now training 4 more. What I tend to do is a lot of research through kill reports in research a constellation and have set up major trade hubs. I'm not taking full credit but the trade Hub in myyhera In The Bleak lands had next to nothing in it when I started today it is still a trade hub that is why I love Eve.

I did research on the faction Warfare Corporation Fleet doctrines and purchased Fleet Doctrine and posted sell orders about 1400 so I did use all of my orders on all of my Tunes and completely invested in that hub it was not as profitable has serpentis Prime was during the war but it was worth all the time and effort that I put into it of course once you establish a trade hub other people will come and post buy and sell orders and then you have competition but a majority of the orders when I started In The Bleak lands where mine.

I tried to move the Hub 2 kamela but it was too much conflict and I almost lost a jump freighter so I stopped there and went back 2 station Trading
Sabriz Adoudel
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#8 - 2016-09-13 13:02:25 UTC
I post regionwide buy orders on high volume items, and so do use most of the market slots on this character (Tycoon 4), but do not use many market slots on my other market-capable character (Wholesale 4).

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Mr Crowley
Tolerable Risk
Void Chapter Requiem
#9 - 2016-09-20 17:58:03 UTC
Harry Flowerpot wrote:
I am just curious: I am a station trader. The items I am trading have lower volume but a nice payout. I understand that cheaper high volume sales would lead to the same profit but I am wondering whether it is actually worth having to go though 200+ orders for this.



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Hel O'Ween
Men On A Mission
#10 - 2016-09-21 16:08:02 UTC
When I was still active playing/trading in the past, I maxed out on orders sometimes.

The thing is: I can't stand "unfinished" skills, so I'm training everything to V, regardless if I actually need it at that level or not.

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#11 - 2016-09-21 17:05:07 UTC
I have one fully-loaded trading character, and he does occasionally run out of orders.

All of my alts have some trading capability, and I try to train level 5 Accounting & Broker Relations on all characters.
Winter Archipelago
Autumn Industrial Enterprises
#12 - 2016-09-23 19:29:00 UTC
I have two chars with Tycoon IV, and I'm usually sitting at 90-95% utilization on them. I'm spread out in eight different minor hubs, though, pawning off the stuff that I build and buying up the resources I need. I'm considering adding another Tycoon IV char, just to reduce the amount of jumpcloaning / traveling I have to do for it, and to expand to a ninth hub (having each char manage three minor hubs).

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