I hate having to take up too much of anyone's time right now but I did want to pass it along that one aspect I'd like to see get some attention is how to find trades. As it stands, it's a bit cumbersome to find where to sell our wares, even with help from the trade filter. For instance, I type in the map's search bar "Microchips" and open, up my filter setting to show Medium quanities or above for demand. All very good stuff. But now I need to pan around the galaxy map to see who want's what. Not entirely terrible to do because if you hover over a sector, it shows the highest 'paying' demand for you which works (somewhat).
However, it does not show every single demand for that sector which really makes selling stuff a real chore when you just want to find a places with high demands or even medium demands, regardless of price just to unload quantities and have to zoom down to station levels to find new listings that aren't shown from just normally hovering over a sector.
Irconically, I didn't even notice it wasn't showing all the listing in a sector until probably a good 300 hours into the game which was somewhat a mixed feeling when it dawned on me lol. I stumbled on a listing by accident, that when I zoomed back out a little, it disappeared and was replaced. I then realized that not everything is shown by simply hovering over the sector. In fact, sometimes I'll find higher buy demands if I zoom into station, but they'll have a poor asking price. So now when I am setting up my trade lines, I am going station to station basically in each sector looking for prices/demand amounts. It's just somewhat taxing to do it like this each time for each trader for each different ware. I am selling like 9-10 different wares I produce from my own factories and each time, I search in the map, I go to each sector, I zoom in to each station and it just adds up to being a lot of time I could place elsewhere into more rewarding activities.
So what I propose is to make life a little easier for us entrepreneurs or trade extraordinaries is give us a bonified trade menu of some sort. Maybe something we can tab over to like other menu's in the game, then put into a search bar the ware we want information on and so long as we have satellites or a trader license, information is displayed telling us all available buying options per sector and all available selling options per sector in one easy to view list or location for the ware we searched.
Could take it a step further and allow us to assign a ship to a station from the 'buy ware' section and vice versa for selling wares for ships we intend to manually control ourselves for trades. I kind of envision it to be something like how the boarding screen looks but just with trading information/options going on instead. This would save us some time to be able to view who has what for sale or who wants to buy what and quickly send a ship off to take care of it. Would be pretty awesome, I think. I mean honestly, it could be pretty basic too and I'd still be plenty happy. If it just shows who has what's for sale and who wants to buy what, that's fine too!
Another idea is instead of a trade menu which might be too much dev work, to have it so when we hover our mouse over a sector looking for trades, it doesn't just show us the highest paying high demand trade but list every single one in that sector, even if the prices are very low (for when searching for a single ware of course, not speaking about default behaviors here. defaults are fine!). That would also make life of a trader much easier too. Anything is probably better than what we have right now with having to go station to station looking to unload our stuff each time. Don't get me wrong, what we have now works but I just think it could be improved a bit more so that we spend less time fiddling around looking for trades. It's really the only thing that somewhat bothers me in this game which is my favorite and I love dearly.
For the record.. I mean if it stays this way, that's totally fine and I'll happily live with it and still find plenty of enjoyment. Just know, I think myself and many others would really enjoy having an easier time establishing our trade routes by having trade information more readily available either on the map or location on the UI dedicated to trades and trading information. That and if there's an aspect I think that can be improved on, I'd like to let you guys know because I care about your game and only want the upmost success for it and yourselves!
Oh and I do want to clarify too before I forget. I don't think information should be given unless we have satellites or bought trade licenses, just like it is now. The system in place right now is perfect in my opinion and I don't want to see them removed or tampered with. I find that aspect to be really immersive and rewarding after you go around setting up your satellite network or saving up for a trade license to be able to capitalize on them and make some creds doing trades. Plus, it encourages players to explore and to seek out new profitsss
Thanks for your time! Hopefully it made sense and wasn't too confusing in my wording. I'll let you go. You guys are the best! Love you all <3 I hope you have a great rest of your week and keep up the amazing work.
TLDR:
Complaint: Seeking out buyers via the map is somewhat challenging, especially since not all buyers are shown for each sector, just the highest paying with highest demand meaning you need to zoom at station level to find other stations that are also buying or selling.
Suggestion 1: Implement a Trade Menu so we can easily search wares and it quickly shows all buyers/sellers on a single page. Bonus would be to allow us to assign ships to stations in this menu to buy or sell wares but that's maybe too much work to do, not sure.
Suggestion 2: Have it so when we are looking for specific buyer/sellers in a sector, it list all of them in one easy to view screen on the map without us having to zoom in and out to all the stations in that sector to find them.
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It really hurts the brain when you have over a 100+ traders you are trying to take care of. Maybe it could be a new 'filter' you could add for us that when enabled, breaks ships up into different groups depending on the ware in their cargo hold or their buy setting. That or just give us the ability to make our own folders or subgroups to place traders or ships into. I'll take anything haha. 
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