Star Citizen: How trading works - all info

There are many ways to earn money in Star Citizen. Trading is especially popular, as it is easy to do and brings reliable income. Our guide explains the basics.

Trader between the stars: buying, selling and transporting will bring you money in Star Citizen.

The vision behind Star Citizen includes quite a few job opportunities. However, trading is already extensively possible and therefore very common.

Star Citizen: The basics on trading

Trade in Star Citizen works according to the classic principle: you buy goods from merchant A, transport them to merchant B and sell them there at a higher price. This is consequently a decisive factor, as it is ultimately always about the margin.

• Generally, the bigger the margin, the better the deal.
• However, you should also take into account cost factors such as the distance between the merchants as well as any risks along the way.
• You can only find an overview of the prices in the game at the respective merchants, so it takes a lot of effort to achieve a good margin. An indispensable help is therefore the site gallog.co, since all goods can be found there along with their prices for buying and selling.
• Performed are buying and selling at trading terminals, which you can find on site.
• In addition, the size of your spaceship is important: The unit of measure for goods is SCU and each ship has a fixed SCU storage space. For the small Aegis Avenger Titan it is 8 SCU, for the medium-sized Drake Cutlass Black already 46 SCU.

Logically, the more goods you transport at once, the higher the profit. Therefore, it is worth renting larger ships if you plan to spend several hours trading. This is possible since version 3.7 and is an important factor not only for trading.