Starcom: Nexus – Definitive Trade Routes Guide

Each alien species uses a different resource as their base currency. This makes figuring out a good/bad deal very difficult. This was probably intended to be a fun challenge by the developers, but I found it annoying. In any case, I hope you find this guide helpful.

Guide to Trade Routes

Please note: all credit goes to Huffestus!

Trade Route Cheat Sheet

Here is a quick reference to what to buy and sell for each aliens you encounter. I made a lot of money/resources early in the game by buying Cobalt-60 from the Ulooquo (since they are encountered early in the game) and then selling it to the Citadel.

  • Buy Adamantine and Cobalt-60* from Ulooquo.
  • Sell Yttruim to Ulooquo.
  • Buy Adamantine, Cobalt-60, Yttrium, Chiralite, Gold, and Titanium from Tycoeden.
  • Sell nothing to Tycoeden.
  • Buy Cobalt-60, Platinum, Neutronium from Araona.
  • Sell Gold* to Araona.
  • Buy Adamantine* and Cobalt-60 from Saurid.
  • Sell Neutronium* to Saurid.
    * = Best deal

Advanced Trade Routes

For those who want a more details of how good or bad a deal is, then this may help. I took the base currency of each alien species and divided by the their value of Titanium, then converted the values of reach resource based on the their price conversion. There was probably an easier mathematical way to do this, but this is what I did.

The interesting fact that I learned from this exercise is that each alien species has a best deal for each buying and selling each resource. For example, the Ulooquo have the best purchase price on Cobalt-60 while the Araona have the best sell price for gold.

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Egor Opleuha, also known as Juzzzie, is the Editor-in-Chief of Gameplay Tips. He is a writer with more than 12 years of experience in writing and editing online content. His favorite game was and still is the third part of the legendary Heroes of Might and Magic saga. He prefers to spend all his free time playing retro games and new indie games.

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