Sunday, 5 November 2017

Farming goods and the locations

So in this post I'm going to try and make a list of all of the valuable trade goods in the game at present and give you a guide of what areas to find them in and how to offload your goods when you have got them.

So there's some items in game that when you first start off will seem like they are of little to no value and you may mistakenly sell them for much less than what they are worth.

All prices here are down to your own personal discretion and will change depending on the current supply and demand on each item.

So down to the items themselves and what they are traded for

Circuit board.
Damaged Hard-Drive.
Flash Drive.
Tushonka.
Energy saving Lamp.
Ultra-violet Lamp.
Half-masks.
Brown handled scav knives.
Tool set.
Gm count.
Gas filter.
Gas analysers.

Each of these items is used in either a quest of a trade for an item with value greater than the sum of its parts.

A large portion of these items are going to be found in filing cabinets and static dead scavs; GMcounts, gas filters, ES-Lamp and UV lamps are all spawns in cabinets and static dead scavs.

Locations of filing cabinets on factory and customs.

There are two cabinets on the third floor if offices in factory.

In customs there is a total of 9.
In two story dorms there are 3. Room 204 has a single cabinet, there is 2 cabinets in room 201.

In three story dorm there is one in room 117 and one in the admin office where the factory key spawns.

In the factory key shortcut there are 2 more cabinets.

There are multiple ways to sell your trade goods, the best ways I have found are as follows.

Www.reddit.com/r/TarkovTrading

This is a place to buy and sell goods, reading the stickied posts will help you learn how to avoid scams and report unfaithful traders. Prices on here are far from fixed and people may offer super low and ask super high prices but with patience you will generally be able to find a buyer for your items.

The unofficial EFT discord.

This has a link to reddit and a separate text based trade channel. High volume of traffic will help insure sales and the ability to report scam trades and issues with traders will help control bad trades.

Community based discords.

These are much tighter community spaces and will generally offer fair prices on goods but with a lower volume of players passing through sales may take slightly longer.

Klean Up Krew discord has a active trade forum.
Kotton has a discord with a trade channel.

Friday, 20 October 2017

The subtle art of inventory tetris

The Subtle art.

Inventory management is a huge part of the tarkov closed beta, while we are waiting for the deployment of the hideouts patch and expandable custom stashes we are stuck with what ever package we have purchased.

So let's get down to it. How can you maximise the space you have?

There are few items in the game that allow you to store more space than they take up.
These three items are the most efficient way but all have their restrictions on what you can store in them.

Documents case: takes 2x1 space in your inventory but stores 4x4 spaces worth of keys. You may be able to put money and such in here but I am at present unable to confirm this.

Wallet: This is a single square item that allows 2x2 storage for money only.

Pistol Case: takes up 2x2 space but stores 3x3. As the name suggests the only thing you can store in here is pistols. At present all pistols are 2x1 so you can fit 4 with 1 space left over.

Each of these three items allows you to store at least 100% for their size. But are very restricted in what you can place in them. They also tend to be prohibitively rare or expensive in the current state of the market.

The last item in this list is by far the most common but is also the least efficient and that is the tactical rig. More specifically the AVS and Blackrock. Each holds 10 spaces but takes up 9 slots. The restriction is 4 4x1s and 2 single slot items. While it's only a small gain it is a gain for storing trade items like gold chains and gas filters.

So how else can we save space in Tarkov at present?

A few tips for you that I've found helpful in my time in tarkov.

• If you can buy it cheaply and easily don't store it. Things like ammo, scav vests, magazines for AK weapons and generic food items.

• attachments can be made smaller by combining them. Take the silco silencer and threaded mount. Separately they take up 3 spaces but combined take up only 1. Making them the smallest silencer in the game.