resource shortage quest on trading posts

[NexTyS]

When you are looking for quests from stations the resource shortage quests is very common, however when this quest is given by a trading post there's an possible exploit.

 

here, looking at the bulletin board there is a resource shortage quest

 

now here's the thing, the resource the mission is asking for is being sold by that same trading post

 

all you have to do is accept the mission, then buy the resource the mission asks for and deliver it whitout even the need to move from the spot

 

by doing it this way, even if you buy the items on spot, you'll always make around half of the original mission reward

 

now some would think that since the reward is too small it doesn't matter that much, but then there are resource shortage missions that have rewards as high as 8 million credits making it around 4 million credits without moving.

 

as far as i can tell this happens on all trading posts but there's a chance that on a certain time the resource needed is not being sold, i would say it's a 10% but when missions are refreshed if it has a resource shortage mission, the resource is also being sold