General Trade Xp

[Mykkael]

Whenever items are freshly traded, trade xp is provided most of the time. Does anyone know in general how the amount of trade xp is calculated per item. Is it based on item level, item price, and/or item availability or something entirely different? (Looted items in particular)

[kjeron]

For all your basic loot(equipment, weapons, organic trophies, broken ship parts), as well as ore, refined ores, and components:[list]
[*]Item level
[*]Your trade level
[*]Trading to a player results in twice the exp as trading to a vendor.
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For trade goods(anything with a green tag at the top) and alcohol, whether they were bought or looted:[list]
[*]item level
[*]your trade level
[*]who you sell it to, which determines:
[*]the profit you received for selling it
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Who you sell it too largely determines the amount of profit and therefor experience earned. Basically follow the trade routes if you want any experience for them. Usually not worth it to hunt for looted trade goods, even thought they are treated as having 0 cost.

For Both:

Lower trade level = higher exp
Higher item level = higher exp.
As trade level gets higher, lower level loot will stop giving exp. at all.

[Mattsacre]

Another detail: looted trade items, if you take them to the right destination to trade them they net 2x trade xp over a vendor bought and traded item.

Example: you loot a L5 weapons crate, read the discription of were it trades to, take the trouble to take it there, your going to get 2x what you would over what you would a regular buy from vendor>trade route xp.

[Mykkael]

Thank you very much.